The first major blow to the HD DVD format was when Warner Bros decided to release all of its high definition titles exclusively in the Blu-ray format. According to Barry Meyer, the Chairman & CEO, the move was a "strategic decision focused on the long term and the most direct way to give consumers what they want." They will continue to release HD DVD titles only until May 2008.

The second major blow to Toshiba and the HD DVD camp was when we heard the news that first Blockbuster, and then a few days later Netflix, jumped ship and went exclusively Blu-ray for all of their hi definition content. Considering that Blockbuster and Netflix are the two largest DVD rental businesses in the US, it's easy to see that this will result in a major market share reduction for HD DVD.

Recently two more blows for HD DVD came. Firstly, Wal-Mart - the largest retailer in the entire world with massive reach - picked Blu-ray. By June of this year, you will see Blu-ray players, Blu-ray movies, Blu-ray converts, and lots more at your local Wal-Mart.

Secondly, news has come out that Toshiba itself has realized that Blu-ray is going to be the gold standard for high definition DVDs; and is planning to slowly kill off the HD DVD format in the months ahead. The Blue-ray onslaught was simply too much for Toshiba and its major supporter, Microsoft, to handle.

Even with huge price slashes recently - HD DVD players as low as $119 - Blu-ray has been unstoppable with an almost 70% share of all HD movies sales. Of course, it doesn't help HD DVD that the Sony PS3, which is also selling well, is a Blu-ray only disc player.

As we see it, the battle was fought well by both sides - but it's now time for the HD DVD camp to admit that it has lost. Let consumers enjoy one HD technology without any confusion.

What are your thoughts on the high definition format battle?

Written by Aseem Kishore, a technology enthusiast and lead blogger for Online-Tech-Tips.

Using a service called JotYou, you can send a message to your friend's cell phone and have them receive it just before they get to the donut shop.

JotYou also has a tracking feature that you can turn on for more fun stuff like games, events, and contests. The organizer of the event can create a tracking group and track the positions and times of all of the participants as the event unfolds.

To get started with JotYou, you need to first create a free account. Once you do that, it's a simple process and fun to play around with. First you'll need to install the JotYou software onto your mobile phone. You can then send messages from your computer or from your cell phone.

The cool thing about this program is that it uses Google Maps to pick the location and set the area for the message to be delivered. First you drag the little marker close to the city where you want to send the message. You'll then be zoomed in on a part of the city with a red circle around the marker.

You can zoom in or out to the exact location you're looking for and then press the smaller or larger buttons that are below the map. You can make the circle smaller, but there's a minimum size that it can go. Obviously, it must determine locations based on cell phone towers and that's the reason why it can't be too small an area. According to the map, the radius of the circle is about .6 miles.

You then simply fill out who you want to send it to, the time, when it message should expire, and the actual message.

If you enable tracking and everyone accepts, then you can actually plot the path across the city or town that the person traveled using Google Maps. Which would perhaps dissuade people from accepting! Nevertheless, JotYou is a Mobile Web app with a lot of potential uses.