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Toshiba drops $1.1 billion over the HD DVD flop

Posted by Mike Allan | March 20, 2008 .

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Toshiba announced that its loss from dropping the HD DVD biz will cost them $1.1 billion USD for the 2007 fiscal year, more than double its earlier projected loss.
Ouch!


CBC gets new media

Posted by Mike Allan | March 20, 2008 .

I came across an article yesterday that talks about how the CBC is to release episodes of the upcoming TV-show “Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister” for free via BitTorrent. This makes CBC the first North-American broadcaster to embrace the popular filesharing protocol.
According to Michael Geist, high quality copies of the show will be published [...]


Eat Lunch with Actress Catherine Bell

Posted by Mike Allan | March 17, 2008 .

I came across this on a blog in my news reader this morning.
Eat Lunch with Actress Catherine Bell
It caught my first because I am a closet “JAG” fan. My wife says it’s because of Ms. Bell and I don’t deny it either! It also caught my eye because it is a new trend I [...]


Looking for a Facebook Application developer (updated Mar. 9)

Posted by Mike Allan | March 6, 2008 .

We have found a developer. Thank you to all who sent in names.
- Cue the Alanis Morrisette sound track “Ironic”-
For the past few days I’ve been pruning my Facebook account of tons of useless applications. It’s not that I don’t like them, I just don’t like the way they are pushed on Facebook.
Well, here is [...]


Watch YouTube Clips in high resolution or download them

Posted by Mike Allan | March 5, 2008 .

Now I said high resolution NOT high definition. Normally the YouTube url looks like the one below which gives you low resolution 320×240 videos.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ABCDESimply add &fmt=6 onto the end of url
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ABCDE&fmt=6
Now you should see high resolution videos. If no change is observed, then it means the video has not been converted to the higher resolution [...]


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