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This article was written on February 19, 2008 by CyberNet.

We weren’t expecting the announcement from Toshiba for another week, but it’s official, HD DVD is now discontinued. In the press release from Toshiba, they stated that after reviewing their strategy for HD DVD, they decided to stop development, manufacturing, and marketing of HD DVD players and recorders. President and CEO of Toshiba was quoted in the announcement saying, “While we are disappointed for the company and more importantly, for the consumer, the real mass market opportunity for high definition content remains untapped and Toshiba is both able and determined to use our talent, technology and intellectual property to make digital convergence a reality.” Next up? Not Blu-ray. For now they’ll be focusing on standard DVD players and recorders and have no intention of backing their former competitor.

Now here’s where things get a little tricky.  Toshiba says that their intention is to reduce shipments of the players and recorders to their retail channels and completely end shipment by the end of March 2008. This means that unknowing consumers who don’t keep up with the latest in the tech world could easily end up buying a HD DVD player, especially if stores put the players on clearance in the coming weeks. All of the major retailers are still selling them, of course, and unless Toshiba volunteers to reimburse the retailers for their inventory, they’ll probably do everything they can to sell as many as possible. On the bright side, those consumers would still be able to use the machine as a DVD player, and they’ll probably be able to get their hands on significantly reduced HD DVD movies.

Thanks for the tip CoryC

Source: Gizmodo

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Likely a direct counterstrike to Verizon’s $79.99 Pixi Plus, Sprint has dropped the retail price of its original WiFi-less Pixi all the way down to $49.99 after $100 mail-in rebate on a new two-year contract. As you might recall, the Pixi debuted at $100, but now that the Pre’s leaving it in the dust with both high-quality gaming and Flash support, a little more price separation between the two makes a lot of sense. Alright, Sprint, strong work — now you’ve just got to drop the Pre a few bucks to distance it from Verizon’s Pre Plus and you’ll be good to go.

Palm Pixi now $50 on Sprint originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Speaking on The Engadget Show today, Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman didn’t commit to supporting Mac OS with Windows Phone 7 Series, but he certainly didn’t close the door on the idea either. There are apparently “internal discussions” going on as to whether support will move beyond Windows proper, but one thing’s for sure: seeing how WP7S uses the Zune client, there could be implications beyond phones alone if Redmond breaks down and loops Cupertino into the party. Saying that it partly comes down to a trade-off for time to market, Woodman concluded with a big, fat “maybe” — but if they decide to make it happen, we’re pretty sure they’d be pleasantly surprised at just how far and wide the love really goes.

Mac support for Windows Phone 7 Series: ‘maybe’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on October 30, 2006 by CyberNet.

The Windows Vista Team Blog just announced what the packaging will look like for retail copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007. I like all of the rounded corners because it gives it a unique look that goes beyond the classic box. Somehow The Vista Team Blog came up with a very unique way of making it sound like the packaging alone is worth hundreds of dollars. Shall we see how many words you can use describe a package:

Designed to be user-friendly, the new packaging is a small, hard, plastic container that’s designed to protect the software inside for life-long use.  It provides a convenient and attractive place for you to permanently store both discs and documentation.

The new design will provide the strength, dimensional stability and impact resistance required when packaging software today.

I am in no way making fun of them for the description…I just have no clue how Nick came up with so many different adjectives to describe the packaging! Look back at the keywords that I highlighted and maybe you’ll agree that it sounds like a commercial for a new car.

Enormous pictures of the packaging can be found at the official blog post.

Update:

As Paul Thurrott points out here are the rest of the Vista packages. You can tell that Ultimate is definitely geared towards gamers.

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And this, folks, is yet another reason why the Land of the Rising Sun is truly one of the world’s greatest places. Japan, which is famous for having ridiculously polite citizens and some of the zaniest toys known to man, has just delivered its latest gem: the Age Prediction Machine. As you might expect, the device simply emits the now-famed “mosquito tone,” which is an exceptionally high pitched frequency that can’t typically be heard by older humans. Depending on the intensity of the sound, you’re able to determine where the cutoff is between hearing it and not, thus discovering the age of whoever would be gullible enough to stand around and actually engage in this sort of lunacy. But seriously, don’t use this the day before your mother’s birthday — just ask pops which number she’s about to celebrate / not celebrate, cool?

Japanese ‘age prediction machine’ is really just a mosquito tone test originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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