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                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on T-MOBILE becoming the first to offer a phone withGOOGLE’s (NASD: GOOG) Android software and how it will affect mobile communication. APPLE (NASD: AAPL) is working on a software repair that will help fix the 3G iPhone’s Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Read Shelly’s open letter to Senator Barack Obama entitled “Please Don’t Trade Space Exploration For Education” on the blog. Watch Shelly’s commentary on GOOGLE’s (NASD: GOOG) Android mobile platform, which has been pushed back to a fourth quarter release. MICROSOFT Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Read Shelly’s commentary “Of iPhones and Androids: A Tale of Two Business Models” on the blog. Watch Shelly’s commentary on AT&T’s (NYSE: T) plan to charge extra for “abnormally high usage.” TIME WARNER (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes is looking Continue Reading →

Unless you lead a very sheltered life, you have probably read all kinds of stuff about Apple’s new 3G iPhone. Yes, the retail price will be $199 for the 8 GB model. Yes, that makes people who bought an iPhone on May 15th for $399 really mad. But they shouldn’t be. A new 3G iPhone Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube CARL ICAHN is launching a proxy contest to replace YAHOO’s board of directors. Icahn plans to nominate 10 directors including former Viacom Inc. Chief Executive FRANK BIONDI. Icahn’s board will push to reopen negotiations with MICROSOFT, however, sources say Icahn Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. NBC unveiled a 65-week schedule of new programming during a new “infront” presentation, offering advertisers an early glimpse of spread-out premieres and a longer timeline to facilitate the planning of national ad campaigns. The schedule includes a new Office spin-off, Continue Reading →

NBC has asked NIELSEN to move sweeps to January next year to avoid complications associated with the transition to digital television. If accepted, the February 2009 sweeps would start on January 15th and conclude on February 14th – 3 days before all analog television signals are turned off. The impact of the digital transition is Continue Reading →

If you’re working in the media business today, you have to be thinking about the five most important digital consumer touchpoints: email, websites, paid search, display ads and video. And, if you’re like most of my clients, this is an ongoing, dynamic, relatively expensive process.   Over the past few months there have been some Continue Reading →

GOOGLE has been quietly preparing for the upcoming wireless auction by using a license from the FCC to operate an advanced wireless test network on its corporate campus. The network is complete with transmission towers and handsets running Android software. Google is also using game-theory specialists to help orchestrate its auction strategy. Potential spectrum bidders Continue Reading →

KEVIN MARTIN is proposing a 75% reduction in the rates that cable operators can charge to lease extra channels. To promote more diverse programming, prices would drop from 40 cents a month per subscriber to 10 cents. The plan will be voted on this month and could be enacted next year. GOOGLE is reportedly in Continue Reading →