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Toshiba signs up for Blu-raySource: CNET.com
Toshiba said Monday it is planning a lineup of products that support the Blu-ray storage format. Toshiba was one of the leading companies behind HD DVD, a standard that lost to Blu-ray.

The HD world has changed dramatically over the past few years.
Omnibus Spending Bill Posted - In Useless FormatSource: washingtonwatch.com
The $500 billion omnibus spending bill to fund the most of federal government for the rest of the year will be debated in the House this week. And it has now finally been posted online.
Revived 45 heads for 60th birthdaySource: BBC News
As the production line grinds to its own industrial beat, it's clear that music formats don't get any more physical than this.
Digital Sales Surpass CDs at Atlantic Source: The New York Times
As a sign of changing times in the intertainment industry, electronic sales have surpassed CD sales for the first time -- at least at Atlantic, a division of the Warner music biz. No other record label has reported the same phenomenon, but it is probably only a matter of time.
10 Simple Steps to SEO your Writing OnlineSource: Textual Ecstasy
1. Define the Object: If you're talking about SEO optimised writing take the extra words to say so each time. Your primary search term needs to be repeated and restated in many ways.
The Wizz Kid TV-formatSource: http://pieterjansegers.ning.com
Give people 30 minutes to set up a website about a subject.
Let 2, 3 or more teams compete.
Let them publish their site in real time on the web.
Let a jury decide which site it the best and explain why.
Pornographic Film Industry Still Firmly Behind HD DVDSource: Dailytech
Analysts looked early to the adult industry as a strong decider of the format war. The adult industry is often credited with giving VHS its support, helping the format to edge out Betamax – and some believe that history may repeat itself with the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc battle

I love my Zune, whose name is Tarquin (after the last king of Rome, Tarquin the Proud), an 80 gig that i received for Christmas, but i do have some grievances,
Convert VIdeo and Podcasts to Zune Format FreeSource:
"The Zune is great, but early on there seems to be little help in getting your video files to play on your zune for free. I haven't seen many zunecast yet, and the zune software as far as we can tell has no way of subscribing to videocast's or netcast's.

LAS VEGAS - Microsoft formally announced HD Photo, a new file format for pictures that aims to replace the 15-year JPG standard by offering "twice the quality" at "twice the compression rate" — a decidedly appealing trait, if it holds up to the claim, but as good as it might be …
Microsoft move could be the end of the JPEGSource: Computerworld
Microsoft Corp. will soon submit to an international standards organization a new photo format that offers higher-quality images with better compression, the company said today.
Bye Bye MP3Source: Wired News
Alcatel-Lucent isn't the only winner in a federal jury's $1.52 billion patent infringement award against Microsoft this week. Other beneficiaries are the many rivals to the MP3 audio-compression format.

Ekiga is a H.323 and SIP compatible videoconferencing and VOIP/IP-Telephony application that allows you to make audio and video calls to remote users with H.323 hardware or software (such as Microsoft Netmeeting) as well as SIP endpoints.
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Microsoft Accuses IBM of Limiting Choice for Interop, StandardsSource: eweek.com
Microsoft has released an open letter that accuses IBM of driving the effort to force the OpenDocument Format on users through public procurement mandates, which the Redmond, Wash., software maker views as an attempt to restrict choice and limit adoption of its Office Open XML fo …
Adobe to Make PDF an Open StandardSource: Ars Technica
Adobe has announced plans to submit its Portable Document Format specification to the Enterprise Content Management Association (AIIM) with the intent of having the PDF format approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as an open standard.