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How-to: Tweak YouTube embeds for HD playback

Want to embed your freshly-cristened YouTube HD video on your blog?


Palm losing out as iPhone gains corporate fans

Corporate IT spending is falling like the stock market, but Apple's share of the growing smartphone market is increasing among business customers, according to ChangeWave.


Detective handcuffed to Oswald can't escape photo (AP)

Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of President John F. Kennedy, reacts as Dallas night club owner Jack Ruby, foreground, shoots at him from point blank range in a corridor of Dallas police headquarters, Nov. 24, 1963. At left is Detective Jim Leavelle. Leavelle wanted to secretly take Oswald out the side door of Dallas police headquarters on that day forty-five years ago. His boss wanted to keep a promise to reporters. So Leavelle handcuffed himself to President Kennedy's assasin, stepped into a crowded basement and became an accidental part of history. (AP Photo/Dallas Times-Herald, Bob Jackson)  NO SALESAP - Retired Dallas police detective Jim Leavelle still gets letters from strangers because of that 1963 photo of him standing next to Lee Harvey Oswald.



Microsoft: Not all information can be free

In a speech in London, Microsoft's top intellectual property strategy counsel argues for the need of a model in which content creators are better compensated.


Ark. police close probe in Ark. Democrat's slaying (AP)

AP - City and state police have closed their investigations into last summer's shooting of Arkansas' Democratic Party chairman without offering an explanation of why the attack occurred.


Afghanistan markets its brand of pomegranates (AP)

Ali Akbar, an Afghan pomegranate seller, arranges his product during the World Pomegranate Fair in Badam Bagh Farm in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov 20, 2008.  Afghan officials have launched a marketing campaign for the fruit in the hope that it will give farmers an alternative to growing poppies. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - This ancient land is telling the world that it has a trendy, new replacement for its dreaded poppy crop: sweet, juicy pomegranates.



Drug suspect's wife charged with killing FBI agent (AP)

Robert Korbe, center, is led to the Allegheny County Police headquarters in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Korbe is in federal custody in connection with the shooting of FBI Special Agent Samuel Hicks,  who was taking part in a drug-ring roundup, and shot  in Indiana Township, a suburban middle class community about 10 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - The wife of a drug suspect has been charged with killing an FBI agent who showed up at the couple's house near Pittsburgh to arrest her husband.



Report: Records search on Joe the Plumber improper (AP)

Joe Wurzelbacher, or as Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain dubbed him during the last presidential debate, 'Joe The Pumber', speaks as former White House Budget Director, Rob Portman, not shown, kicks off the Ohio 'Joe the Plumber' bus tour to campaign with him for Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008, in Columbus, Ohio.  (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP - An agency director improperly used state computers to find personal information on "Joe the Plumber," a government watchdog said in a report released Thursday.



AOL Sync beta launched for Outlook, phones

Beta testers of AOL Sync will be able to sync selective information to Microsoft Outlook and their mobile phones.


Yahoo shares hit $8 range

Shares of the Internet search pioneer dip into the $8 a share range, as the broader markets are beaten.