HD DVD bash knocked on the head

CES Here in Las Vegas ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the first casualty of Warner Home Video’s decision to back Blu-ray is the HD DVD shindig scheduled for Sunday night. Clearly unwilling to face the press, the HD DVD camp have cancelled the event. Toshiba and co. are no longer in a party mood. Continued

Season of goodwill to all IT companies Motorola and Metrologic have settled a half-decade long patent dispute, which the comms giant inherited when it bought Symbol Technologies almost a year ago. Continued

Trumpets set-top box. Plans 100 more NetFlix is going toe-to-toe with Apple TV. And then some. Continued

CES 45nm ‘Silverthorne’ not even out yet LG has craftily shown off an ultra-mobile PC based on Intel’s as-yet-unlaunched ‘45nm Silverthorne’ processor at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Continued