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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Top ten things to do with your now-defunct HD DVD player — Finally, HD DVD users now have the empirical evidence they've been looking for to prove that the universe really is conspiring against them. We figured we'd make ourselves useful over here and give you a list of things you can do with your poor …
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Toshiba:
Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses — Company Remains Focused on Championing Consumer Access to High Definition Content — TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop …
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Chris Tribbey / HomeMediaMagazine.com:The War Is Over! — The high-definition format war is officially over.
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:Blu-ray victory means royalties, royalties, royalties
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
CNET Changes Quarterbacks: Dan Farber Takes Over As Editor In Chief — Big news at CNET today - editor in chief Jai Singh is out, and Dan Farber, most recently the editor in chief of CNET-owned ZDNet, is taking over. In his new role, Dan will oversee the editorial content and user experience for CNET News.
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Transition time at ZDNet — This will be my last post on Between the Lines and ZDNet for a while. I am moving over to head up our sister CNET Networks site News.com starting today. My talented, experienced, incisive and prolific BTL partner Larry Dignan will become Editor in Chief …
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USA Today:
Verizon to offer flat-fee unlimited wireless plans — NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless (VZ) Tuesday will unveil a plan that offers unlimited domestic calling for a flat fee of $99.99 to $139.99 a month. — Unlimited plans for BlackBerry devices and other smartphones will start at $129.99 a month.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:Verizon's unlimited plans get official, not as stellar as previously assumed
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DealBook:
Microsoft to Authorize Proxy Fight at Yahoo — In an escalation of its fight for Yahoo, Microsoft will authorize a proxy fight at the Internet company this week, people briefed on the matter told DealBook. — The move, expected to cost about $20 million to $30 million …
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple taps Linkin Park to perform at “secret” NYC event — Apple has enlisted the services of popular alternative rock band Linkin Park to perform at an unannounced company event due to take place in New York City, AppleInsider has been informed. — Mike Shinoda, front-man …
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Digg Gets More Mainstream; But Are Their News Sources Too Narrow Now? — Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks did an analysis of current frontpage stories on digg, the popular social news site that started out as a tech competitor to Slashdot. Allen noted that now just 15% of frontpage stories …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Scribd's iPaper Plan — Scribd, the San Francisco-based startup that was dubbed the “YouTube of Documents,” has finally become worthy of that sobriquet. While I don't care much about community around documents, I love the concept of the dead simple sharing of documents.
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds) — Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file. But wait, that's not all there is to it!
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Tablet-Guru.com:
WiMax N810 Leaked, To Be Announced At CTIA? — An eagle-eyed member of InternetTabletTalk.com noticed this interesting image of the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet in the February edition of the Best Buy Mobile buyer's guide. Showing the tablet off on page 23 in a very sexy black outfit …
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Christine Monaghan / Apple:
iPod shuffle Now Just $49 — New 2GB Model Priced at $69 — Apple® today announced that its iPod® shuffle, the world's most wearable music player, is now even more affordably priced at $49 and that it is introducing a new 2GB model of the iPod shuffle for $69.
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Kristin Kalning / MSNBC:
Will Microsoft partner with Netflix? — Rumors have swirled since Netflix's CEO joined Microsoft's board last year — SAN FRANCISCO - Will Microsoft offer Netflix movies over Xbox Live? — Bloggers and reporters have been buzzing about the possibility of a partnership for almost a year …
Alertbox:
Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes … It's hard to write a general article about application design mistakes because the very worst mistakes are domain-specific and idiosyncratic. Usually, applications fail because they (a) solve the wrong problem, (b) have the wrong features for the right problem …
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Google Blogoscoped
david ascher:
Mozilla Messaging — Today we've announced the launch of Mozilla Messaging, the new name for the entity I've been calling MailCo on this blog. As promised, it's a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, focused on email and internet communications. We've put up the essential information …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
HP's UMPC 2133 revealed — We've just received these images of HP's rumored UMPC. Honestly, we have no reason to doubt their authenticity. The HP Compaq 2133 “lifestyle accessory” features a big, scratch resistant 8.9-inch 1366 x 766 (WXGA) display, ExpressCard/54 slot, Wireless LAN …
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Business Wire:
HP Reports First Quarter 2008 Results — First quarter GAAP operating profit up 42% to $2.6 billion; $0.80 earnings per share, up from $0.55 a year earlier — First quarter non-GAAP operating profit up 31% to $2.8 billion; $0.86 earnings per share, up from $0.65 a year earlier
