MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer

* Wal*Mart & Amazon drop prices in Holiday sales rush * Sony to open online store, compete with iTunes. * Lady Gaga receives $167 for 1 million plays on Spotify? * AT&T offering prepaid data plans. Read more at ShellyPalmer.com

* Walmart to drop the price of Blu-ray players on Black Friday. * Barnes & Noble sold out of the Nook for holiday season. * Man arrested for not tweeting. * Twilight sequel dominates box office. Read more at ShellyPalmer.com

* Oprah to end show in favor of running network.* Twitter to launch premium accounts by end of year.* Flip cameras to get Wi-Fi. Read more at ShellyPalmer.com

* Vevo to launch December 8.* Microsoft's Azure cloud service to open New Year's Day.* Sony overwhelmed by eReader demand.* Will wireless providers give away free netbooks?Read more at ShellyPalmer.com

* ShopSavvy app changing retail paradigm?* Open University hits 10 million downloads on iTunes.* XBox 360, PS3 get Twitter, Facebook.* MySpace in talks to buy imeem, corner streaming music market. Read more at ShellyPalmer.com

* AOL spin off to happen December 9th.* Beware: fake Swine flu drugs for sale online.* Nintendo Wii good for health, study says.* Univision, YouTube strike content deal.Read more at ShellyPalmer.com

* YouTube improving HD.* Google to launch Chrome OS this week. * Dell to roll out first smartphone.* CrunchPad still in production.Read more at ShellyPalmer.com

* Comcast close to rolling out On-Demand Online.* AP trying to make placement deal with Google.* Google Android running new Vega tablet. * Spotify's US launch delayed.Read more at ShellyPalmer.com

* XBox Live service controversry.* Facebook Status used as alibi in court.* Walmart giving away $100 gift card with BlackBerry purchase.* Google offering extra GMail, Picassa storage for $5.

* Google adds location history* LinkedIn adds Twitter* Verizon MiFi 2200 3G/WiFi HotspotRead more at

* Larry Johnson released from Kansas City Chiefs after Twitter outrage.* Murdoch says News Corp may ban WSJ from Google.* Yahoo sponsoring free Wi-Fi in Times Square* Sony to issue films on Blu-ray, Download before DVD.* Nokia recalling 14 million cell ...

* Call of Duty expected to be one of the year's biggest releases.* Barnes & Noble's Nook on back order due to popular demand.* Forging blog comments can be seen as identity theft* Zynga cleaning up social games.Read more at ShellyPalmer.com

* Will Oprah move her show to her new channel?* Samsung to launch new line of web connected TVs, Blu-ray players.* Verizon now offering prepaid data plans. * Best Buy will instal mobile apps on Google phones.Read more at ShellyPalmer.com

* Wal*Mart and HP introduce $300 full-sized laptop* Sneak peek at Microsoft's New Courier Tablet Computer* NYS sues Intel for anti-trustRead more at

* Metrotextuals emerge from text culture. * Best Buy & CinemaNow team for online movie streaming.* Twitter launches in Spanish, more languages en route.* T-Mobile network experiences outage.Read more at ShellyPalmer.com

* Apple to sell Apple TV subscription?* Paramount to sell Transformers sequel on flash drive.* PayPal's new service could put it inside games, apps* Apple Snow Leopard update kills netbook hackability.* Marvell getting into eReader market.Read more at ...

* Twitter Lists now available to all.* HTC's repackaged Herod, the Droid Eris hits stores Friday.* Sony's new slim 250GB PS3 in stores tomorrow.* Flipshare TV may wirelessly transmit Flip video to TV.Read more at ShellyPalmer.com

* Netflix's Watch Instantly service hitting Nintendo Wii* Apple gives AppleTV a much needed update.* NBA to stream games on mobile phones. * New services allow customers to pay with phone number.Read more at ShellyPalmer.com

* Google unveils turn-by-turn navigation exclusively for Android. * Google's Music Search live.* Twitter only