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6:40 PM ET, February 19, 2008

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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 …
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Universal chooses Blu-ray
Discussion: PC World, TidBITS and AppleInsider
Pocket-lint.co.uk:
LG not dumping HD DVD
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Chris Tribbey / HomeMediaMagazine.com:
The War Is Over!  —  The high-definition format war is officially over.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget HD
Ryan Block / Engadget:
In case you missed it: peace broke out in the format war, HD DVD is dead
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Blu-ray victory means royalties, royalties, royalties
Discussion: Medialoper
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.
Discussion: Beet.TV, paidContent.org and Valleywag
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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 …
Discussion: Global Neighbourhoods
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Now AT&T Is Offering An Unlimited Plan For $99
Discussion: VoIP Blog
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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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Listening for a Peep From Sunnyvale
Discussion: eWeek and Tech Trader Daily
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 …
Discussion: Bits and MacRumors
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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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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:   Can You Guess Which Categories Make The Digg Home Page Most?
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!
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped
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 …
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
 
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Min Lee / Associated Press:
China censures Baidu.com
Discussion: Techdirt and WebProNews
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Microsoft gets RRoD at GDC
Yahoo! Search Blog:
It's About the Customers  —  A few months back, I shared …
Discussion: Screenwerk and WebProNews
Google Earth Blog:
New Imagery Update for Google Earth
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Google intoxicates Linux users with Wine improvements
Discussion: The Open Road and Compiler
Mitchell Ashley / The Converging Network:
Fail Early, Fail Often
 Earlier Items: 
Matt Hickey / CrunchGear:
He said, she said: Consumerist vs. Monster Cable — Fight!
Discussion: Gizmodo
Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Launches World's Largest Hadoop Production Application
Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop:
Apple: “Xserve RAID is dead! Long live Promise VTrak RAID!”
BBC:
BBC programmes go on iTunes
Discussion: Podcasting News and p2pnet
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Microsoft giving away Zunes
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google 10K: Warns On Near-Term Revenue*
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
The Most Frequently Used Features in Microsoft Office