If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The major media companies are wrapping up the upfronts and the numbers are down approximately 15%. As a whole, business is down due to lower prices. Interestingly, the big broadcast networks are holding back more inventory than usual, which is what Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Sources say the Pirate Bay’s new owner, Global Gaming Factory, wants to take the company public. Global Gaming Factory CEO Hans Pandeya noted that most of the company’s investors are based in the US, and with the deal expected to close Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Marine Corps has banned social networking sites including, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace because they create a larger attack and exploitation window, expose unnecessary information to adversaries and provide an easy conduit for information leakage that puts security and personnel at Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The National Football League has banned players from using Twitter. The NFL noted that players who use the micro-blogging network from meetings, coaching sessions or games would be fined. While the league has not adopted an official policy, most teams have Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Now that Yahoo is leasing Microsoft search technology, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said that the company will focus on developing other properties. Bartz noted that the former search company will invest their split of the search money in display ads and Continue Reading →
As most of you know, I am not an iPhone lover. I bought my first one right when they came out and, then, immediately brought it back to the genius bar to ask why the speakers didn’t work. My iPhone version 1.0 story is chronicled in two articles from July 2007. The first July 7, Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Pirate Bay has been ordered by a Ditch court to close its operations in the Netherlands. The court noted that for every day the Pirate Bay kept operating in the country it would be forced to pay a $42,000 fine. Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. New York representative Edolphus Towns announced that he plans to introduce a bill to ban file sharing networks on government computers. The goal is to eliminate peer-to-peer networks, which are easily hackable, from networks and computers connected to the government infrastructure. Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Universal, Warner Bros, Sony and Paramount, amongst others, have teamed to fight the Pirate Bay. The group of Hollywood studios filed a lawsuit in the Pirate Bay’s native Sweden, claiming that the site should be shut down over copyright issues. While Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. NBCU executive Ben Silverman has left the company in order to pursue a new venture with IAC. Silverman, who came under fire for a lack of hits and his managing for margins style, led NBC to becoming a fourth place network. Continue Reading →