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NASCAR All-Star race to end with 10-lap finish

NASCAR's annual All-Star race will end with a 10-lap final segment this year and the winner will earn a $1 million payout.

Modern pentathlon cut from 5 to 4 events

Modern pentathlon has been cut from five events to four in a bid to boost its popularity and stay in the Olympics.

Bad faceoff markings lead to unusual game format

The format of the Bruins game against the Atlanta Thrashers on Saturday night was changed because of incorrect faceoff markings at one end of TD Banknorth Garden.

Top tech movies: Creepy-crawly climbing bots and more

Researchers at Case Western University in Ohio, US, are using robots equipped with a cross between wheels and legs – called "whegs" – to test a new material that mimics the gravity-defying feet of geckos and insects.

LG to Sell Dual-Format DVD Player

LG Electronics said Wednesday it plans to sell a DVD player that will play both warring high-definition DVD formats.

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President Obama Fights Against A Corrupt Leadership Format In America: I Stand With Him...

President Obama fights against a corrupt leadership format in America By: Gloria J.

Toshiba signs up for Blu-ray
Source: 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.

Early Beta Data From Microsoft Adsense Competitor Encouraging
Source: TechCrunch

We are getting reports that Microsoft's PubCenter, a self serve thirty party ad publishers platform through AdCenter, is doing quite well with beta testers. Microsoft began testing PubCenter last summer.

Omnibus Spending Bill Posted - In Useless Format
Source: 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 birthday
Source: 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 Online
Source: 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.

How to Permanently Delete Data from Your Hard Drive - ReadWriteWeb
Source: Read/WriteWeb

Excerpt: According to the New York Times, a basic privacy measure that is often overlooked is the proper destruction of data on hard drives.

The Wizz Kid TV-format
Source: 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.

Toshiba to give up on HD DVD, end format war: source - Yahoo! News
Source: Yahoo! News

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp (6502.T) is planning to give up on its HD DVD format for high definition DVDs, conceding defeat to the competing Blu-Ray technology backed by Sony Corp (6758.T), a company source said on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT

The 25 Basic Styles of Blogging ... And When To Use Each One » SlideShare
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/

This gives the basic blogging content styles in use today, emphasizing certain characteristics of each styles while giving a short example of each style

Pornographic Film Industry Still Firmly Behind HD DVD
Source: 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

A Short List of Grievances about the Zune, Tips for converting Video to Zune format & more

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 Free
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"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.

Bush Loyalist Investigating Karl Rove Had A Private Technician Perform A Military Grade Wipe on Three Government PCs. Coverup? What Coverup?
Source: Wall Street Journal

The head of the federal agency investigating Karl Rove's White House political operation is facing allegations that he improperly deleted computer files during another probe, using a private computer-help company, Geeks on Call.

Blu–ray vs. HD DVD: Checking Alliances and Choosing Sides
Source: www.metue.com

Only about 3 million high definition discs have sold so far (both formats combined). In contrast, standard definition DVD's sell about a billion units in the U.S. every year.

Dabombplanet website is your one stop source for HDTV education
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Get educated on HDTV technology before you buy. Don't waste your money on inferior technologies. Dabombplanet has the facts.

Which HD video technology will succeed?
Source: SearchWarp.com

Which HD video format will win the format war.

Why Microsoft's new HD Photo format will fail

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 JPEG
Source: 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 MP3
Source: 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.

Security Update for Ekiga

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. The Problem....

Microsoft Accuses IBM of Limiting Choice for Interop, Standards
Source: 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 Standard
Source: 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.

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