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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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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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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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Reuters:
Microsoft targets Web with Yahoo or alone: Gates — SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp plans to invest heavily in Web search to compete against Google Inc, even if it fails to acquire Yahoo Inc, the company's chairman Bill Gates said on Monday. — Gates, who called Microsoft's offer for Yahoo …
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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Verizon:Verizon Wireless Introduces New Unlimited Plans That Are As Worry Free …
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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.
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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 …
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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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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!
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 …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
The Most Frequently Used Features in Microsoft Office — Online office suites like Google Docs are often criticized because they have a very basic feature set, but the advanced features from software packages like Microsoft Office are rarely used. Jensen Harris, Group Program Manager …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Depicts Advanced Multitouch Gesturing Control Panel in Mac OS X — In case there were any doubts that Apple was exploring the use of advanced multitouch gestures under Mac OS X, a recent Apple patent application authored by Wayne Westerman (of Fingerworks) shows mockups …
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Reuters:
Hacker's firm doubleTwist enables copying of iTunes — CHAMONIX, France (Reuters) - A start-up co-founded by famed Norwegian hacker “DVD Jon” is on Tuesday introducing a service that enables users to copy and use copy-protected Apple Inc(AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) iTunes songs on many popular non-Apple devices.
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Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Sea cable snappage was sabotage — Middle eastern cables destroyed deliberately — THE International Telecommunication Union has claimed that a spate of telecommunication outages to the Middle East were the result of sabotage. — Five undersea cables were damaged causing huge disruption …
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 …
