If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google is set to launch a digital book store to rival Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Google’s online store will open up next year with approximately 500,000 for sale. Google will split revenue with publishers, giving the publishers 63% when selling Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter is increasing its global appeal by partnering with Indian wireless communications company Bharti Airtel on an SMS deal. The partnership will allow Bharti Airtel’s 110 million wireless users to send free text messages to Twitter. While texting Twitter won’t be Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter is helping users with Spam problems by allowing them to report suspected spam accounts. Users have been vocal in their annoyance of spam followers and the lack of protection from spam accounts by Twitter’s security network. As the micro-blogging service Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After thousands of users lost contacts and personal data, T-Mobile says that much of the information lost may be able to be retrieved. The company know believes data may be able to be recovered. In adittion, T-Mobile is offering Sidekick users Continue Reading →
This week on Digital Life with Shelly Palmer, media junkies, Twitter goes global, Microsoft and T-mobile lose a ton of user data and e-books are the new, new thing. Plus, I’ll talk with the founder of USA Networks and current chairman of Liz Claiborne, Kay Koplovitz, and I’ll discuss the state of the media business Continue Reading →
On the subject of blogger endorsement guidelines, the FTC said: “The commission disagrees with those who suggest that including in the guides examples based on these new media would interfere with the vibrancy of these new forms of communication, or that the commission should, instead, defer to industry self-regulation,” the commission wrote. “The guides merely Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Microsoft has revealed its new line of smart phones it hopes will compete with RIM’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone. The new line of HTC handsets on AT&T, Verizon and Sprint will feature touch-screen pads, as well as access Microsoft’s patented Office Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. CBS is working round the clock to keep David Letterman’s explanation of his extortion case off the Internet. The clip was not posted to either CBS.com nor TV.com and CBS censors have removed many copies of the ten minute clip from Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Comcast is in talks with GE to acquire 51% of NBCU. Comcast hopes to merge its cable division with the NBCU’s offerings, which include NBC, USA Network, Telemundo and a host of other properties. The deal, which can only be finalized Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Sources are reporting that Comcast is in talks to purchase NBCU. Reputable news organizations say that no one will officially comment, and that talks are preliminary, however some bloggers say the deal is done for an estimated $35 billion. Of course, Continue Reading →