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5:15 PM ET, February 19, 2008

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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 …
Chris Tribbey / HomeMediaMagazine.com:
The War Is Over!  —  The high-definition format war is officially over.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget and Engadget HD
Jeremy Toeman / Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally:
HD-DVD's loss does not dictate Blu-ray's win
Discussion: Engadget and Xbox 360 Fanboy
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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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Now AT&T Is Offering An Unlimited Plan For $99
Discussion: VoIP Blog and PHONE Magazine
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Launches World's Largest Hadoop Production Application  —  Yahoo! recently launched what we believe is the worlds largest Apache Hadoop production application.  The Yahoo! Search Webmap is a Hadoop application that runs on a more than 10,000 core Linux cluster and produces data that is now used in every Yahoo! Web search query.
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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:   Yahoo! Search running Apache Hadoop on Large Scale
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, Digital Daily and MacRumors
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!
Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop:
Apple: “Xserve RAID is dead!  Long live Promise VTrak RAID!”  —  We just had a conversation with Eric Zelenka, senior product line manager of Apple's server and storage software, wherein he cleared up the case of the disappearing Xserve RAID.  As everyone suspected, the reason it disappeared is because, well, it's gone.
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Jennifer Hakes / Apple:
Apple Introduces Xsan 2
Discussion: Business Technology
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 …
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 …
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
 
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Can You Guess Which Categories Make The Digg Home Page Most?
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Alfred Hermida / Reportr.net:
The new roles for journalists in a multimedia world
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Microsoft gets RRoD at GDC
Yahoo! Search Blog:
It's About the Customers  —  A few months back, I shared …
Discussion: WebProNews and Screenwerk
Google Earth Blog:
New Image 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
Discussion: Fractals of Change
Matt Hickey / CrunchGear:
He said, she said: Consumerist vs. Monster Cable — Fight!
Discussion: Gizmodo
 Earlier Items: 
David Galbraith:
Swarm Democracy - Wikileaks is down, but not for the reasons you think
BBC:
BBC programmes go on iTunes
Discussion: p2pnet
BBC:
Computer software terms ‘unfair’
Discussion: Boing Boing
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Microsoft giving away Zunes
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
Fast 128GB solid state drives coming in April
Discussion: Computerworld
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google 10K: Warns On Near-Term Revenue*
Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Sea cable snappage was sabotage
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
The Most Frequently Used Features in Microsoft Office
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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