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Submission + - Sony Set to Market Blu-ray as Winner of Format War

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12, 2007 @03:23PM

An anonymous reader writes: Seizing on widely reported January sales numbers, a Sony executive says that the studio plans to begin marketing Blu-ray as the winner of the high-def format war. "The message that we're going to put out to the consumer now is, now it is safe to make a choice," said Sony Pictures Home Entertainment worldwide president David Bishop. "No more fence-sitting is needed."

Submission + - Motorola unveils phone that bends

Submitted by on Monday February 12, 2007 @02:23PM

An anonymous reader writes: According to CNET, who are out at 3GSM in Barcelona, Motorola has unveiled a phone that bends in order to make putting it up to your face more comfortable. The Motorola Z8, as the bendy phone is called, runs on a Symbian based platform and also displays video at up to 30 frames per second.

Two Ways Not To Handle Free Speech 686

Posted by kdawson on Saturday February 10, 2007 @09:32PM from the hang-up-or-takedown dept.

Two stories in the news offer contrasting approaches by Web companies to questions of free speech. First YouTube: reader skraps notes that the Google property has recently banned the popular atheist commentator Nick Gisburne. Gisburne had been posting videos with logical arguments against Christian beliefs; but when he turned his attention to Islam (mirror of Gisburne's video by another user), YouTube pulled the plug, saying: 'After being flagged by members of the YouTube community, and reviewed by YouTube staff, the video below has been removed due to its inappropriate nature. Due to your repeated attempts to upload inappropriate videos, your account now been permanently disabled, and your videos have been taken down.' Amazon.com provides a second example of how to react to questions of free speech. Reader theodp sends along a story in TheStreet.com about how Amazon hung up on customers wanting to comment on its continuing practice of selling animal-fighting magazines. The article notes that issues of free speech are rarely cut-and-dried, and that Amazon is doing itself no favors by going up against the Humane Society.
Update: 02/11 04:25 GMT by KD : updated Nick Gisburne link to new account.

Journal Journal: The Onion on Vista

Journal by P(0)(!P(k)+P(k+1)) on Saturday February 10, 2007 @09:15PM

Highlights from the article:

Microsoft Word's helpful paper-clip icon now blinks at rate of normal humans
Five new card-back designs for Solitaire
Something that Apple would never, ever dream up in a billion years

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