Warner Dumps HD DVD

By Edward N. Albro, PCW Print Feb 1, 2008 4:00 PM

Warner Dumps HD DVD: Strike up the band and kiss a random stranger, because it looks like the High-Definition Format War is finally over.

Wii Doesn't Make You Fit: If playing Nintendo's console won't make me a champ, I'll just do it the old-fashioned way--with steroids and HGH.

No Laptop Batteries in Luggage: As the new ban reveals, apparently it's not the terrorists we have to worry about, it's the workaholics.

AOL Drops Netscape Support: Damn corporate greed! Abandoning the browser a mere five years after it became utterly irrelevant!

Can you spell 'lawsuit'? The makers of Scrabble force Facebook to drop its Scrabulous app, and word dorks are "apoplectic" (18 points).

U.S. Trails in Privacy Rankings: But who's surprised? After all, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan are dragging down the scores for the rest of us.

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