A company source within Toshiba told Reuters that Toshiba was in the final stages of planning to exit the HD DVD business and that an official decision would be made soon. Given all the hype surrounding the format war between HD and Blue Ray, I’ll bet that most people already assumed there was an official announcement. We’ll file this under the category of, “Sorry to see you lose hundreds of millions, Toshiba.”

All that said, I guess it’s about time for Sony to have a win in the format war. Let’s recap the list of proprietary losers in the companies past:

• Betamax — Beat by VHS
• MiniDisc — Never had a chance
• ATRAC Audio Format — Beat by MP3
• SDDS (Sony Dynamic Digital Sound) — Beat by Dolby Digital 5.1
• Memory Stick — Beat SD cards
• Super Audio CD — Beat by good old fashioned CDs
• Universal Media Disc for movies — LOL
• 1GB Hi-MD discs — Have you even heard of these?
• 125 MB Magneto-optical discs — Again, have you even heard of these?

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Mark reports that Device Profile #5 is now available for download. This update features the first Flash Lite 3.0 devices available in the market.

An important note: before downloading Update #5, you must first download and install the Flash Lite 3 Update for Device Central CS3 and for Flash CS3 Professional (2 separate updates).

New Device Profiles:
DocoMo Fujitsu F905i DocoMo LG L704i DocoMo Mitshubishi D905i DocoMo NEC N905i DocoMo NEC N905i? DocoMo Panasonic P905i DocoMo Sharp SH905i DocoMo Sony Ericsson SO905i KDDI Casio Hitachi W53H KDDI Kyocera W44KII camera-less KDDI Kyocera W53K KDDI Sony Ericsson W53S KDDI Toshiba A5529T KDDI Toshiba W55T KDDI Tottori Sanyo W55SA Nokia 5310 Nokia 5610 Nokia 6120 classic Nokia 6121 classic Nokia 6126	Nokia 6136 Nokia 6301 Nokia 6500 classic Nokia 6500 slide Nokia 7373 Nokia 7500 Nokia 7900 Nokia E51 Nokia N82 Nokia N95 8GB Sony Ericsson K858c Sony Ericsson W908c Sony Ericsson K770i Sony Ericsson K630i Softbank Panasonic 820P Softbank Sharp 820SH Softbank Sharp 821P Softbank Sharp 821SH Softbank Sharp 822SH Softbank Sharp 920SH Softbank Toshiba 920T

Expanded/Improved Device Profiles:
LG KS10 Nokia 3109 Nokia 3110 Nokia 3250 Nokia 3500 Nokia 5200 Nokia 5300 Nokia 6085 Nokia 6267 Nokia 6290 Nokia 6300 Nokia 7390 Nokia 8800	Nokia E90 Nokia N76 Nokia N95 Sony Ericsson K850i Sony Ericsson W910i Generic Flash Lite 3.0 16 240×320 Generic Flash Lite 3.0 16 320×240 Generic Flash Lite 3.0 16 480×640 Generic Flash Lite 3.0 16 640×480 Generic Flash Lite 3.0 32 240×320 Generic Flash Lite 3.0 32 320×240 Generic Flash Lite 3.0 32 480×640 Generic Flash Lite 3.0 32 640×480

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Interesting story for all you Apple lovers out there. PC World reports that MS Windows Vista runs faster on a Mac laptop than any other laptop period.

“The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year—or for that matter, ever—is a Mac. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware”

Read the story

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Bill recently announced that Adobe has made the first device profile update for Adobe Device Central CS3 avaiable.

There are 3 ways you can download the update (11.4MB):
- go to the direct URL in your browser from our new site, Adobe Device Central Online
- in the Device Central start window click the “device updates” button
- in the Device Central menu bar select Help > Updates…

This update contains 39 new device profiles from all regions of the world, many released between January to April 2007, as well as updates to 7 existing profiles. With this update you will have access to 265 device profiles as part of Device Central with most of them for supporting Flash Lite content in addition to other mobile media types.

New Device Profiles
DoCoMo Fujitsu F903i
DoCoMo Mitsubishi D903i
DoCoMo Motorola M702iG
DoCoMo Motorola M702iS
DoCoMo NEC N601i
DoCoMo NEC N703iD
DoCoMo NEC N903i
DoCoMo Panasonic P903i
DoCoMo Sony-Ericsson SO903i
KDDI Casio Hitachi E03CA
KDDI Casio Hitachi W43HII
KDDI Kyocera W44K
KDDI Sanyo W43SA
KDDI Sony-Ericsson W44S
KDDI Toshiba A5523T
KDDI Toshiba W46T
KDDI Toshiba W47T
Nokia E61i
Nokia E65
Nokia N77
Nokia N91
Nokia N95
Nokia 6290
Reigncom iriver Clix
Reigncom iriver U10
SoftBank Nokia 705NK
SoftBank Samsung 707SC
SoftBank Samsung 709SC
SoftBank Sharp 910SH
SoftBank Sharp 911SH
SoftBank Toshiba 811T
Sony-Ericsson W610i
Sony-Ericsson W880i
Verizon LG VX8100
Verizon LG VX8300
Verizon LG VX8500
Verizon LG VX9900
Verizon Samsung SCH-A930
Verizon Samsung SCH-A990
Expanded/Improved Device Profiles
DoCoMo Mitsubishi D701iWM
DoCoMo Mitsubishi D851iWM
DoCoMo NEC N506iSII
DoCoMo NEC N701iECO
DoCoMo Panasonic P506iCII
DoCoMo Panasonic P851i
DoCoMo Sony-Ericsson SO505i

Instructions on how to download and install the new device profiles are available on the device profile page.

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