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Nate Mook / betanews.com:
Microsoft to Drop PDF Support in Office — Amid threats of a lawsuit from Adobe, Microsoft acknowledged Friday that it would remove support for saving files in PDF from Office 2007, as well as dropping its own rival format XPS from the productivity suite and Windows Vista.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Office, Vista changed in wake of Adobe threat — update Microsoft is making changes to the next versions of both Office and Windows as part of an effort to head off a legal challenge from Adobe Systems. — Microsoft said earlier Friday that it expects an antitrust suit from Adobe after months …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
DOJ, Net firms fail to agree on data retention — A meeting at the U.S. Justice Department on Friday to discuss forcing Internet providers to record Americans' online activities ended without reaching an agreement, according to multiple participants. — The meeting of about 15 industry representatives …
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Elise Ackerman / siliconvalley.com:
U.S. wants Web records — The U.S. Department of Justice has quietly told Google, Microsoft and other major Internet companies that it wants them to keep detailed records of where people go while surfing the Web for up to two years. — The proposal, which would require congressional approval …
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New York Times:
U.S. Wants Companies to Keep Web Usage Records — The Justice Department is asking Internet companies to keep records on the Web-surfing activities of their customers to aid law enforcement, and may propose legislation to force them to do so. — The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation …
Stephen Taylor:
Joe Volpe strongarms the Internet and erodes freedom of speech in Canada — Yesterday, a Joe Volpe parody site went up called YouthForVolpe.ca which lampooned the Liberal leadership candidate's drug money (ahem pharmaceutical donations) from children of Apotex execs.
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Jane Taber / Globe and Mail:
Campaign gets tangled in website spoof — It was all the buzz in official Ottawa yesterday — a hilarious political whodunit in this age of websites, platforms and templates. — Overnight, someone built a website spoofing Liberal leadership candidate Joe Volpe and his acceptance of thousands …
Dan Mitchell / New York Times:
MySpace No Longer Their Space? — BRANDS, for teenagers, are fleeting things. — For big, slow-moving corporations, this presents a problem. When Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation acquired the community site MySpace nearly a year ago, the site was at the height of its popularity.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Dotster named in massive cybersquatting suit — update A new federal lawsuit charges that Dotster, one of the largest domain name registrars, has unlawfully participated in a massive cybersquatting campaign targeting companies such as Cingular Wireless, Disney, Ikea, Google, Neiman Marcus, Playboy and Verizon.
Tim Ziegler / webmonkey.com:
Get Your Feet Wet with WordPress — Tim Ziegler builds websites in Texas with d2p. He wants to fabricate a giant bicycle-powered gyroscope. He hopes he's around when the robots all break free. — Over the last few years, WordPress has emerged as one of the best blogging tools available.
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Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
BellSouth Says It's Not Blocking MySpace — BellSouth customers filled the Technorati blog Thursday and Friday, complaining that they had not been able to access YouTube, which stores and plays back user-generated videos, and MySpace, a social networking site for teens.
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Wired News:
Searching for Parking? Try Online — The internet might soon be the best place to snag a parking spot in a busy city. — Several companies are experimenting with systems that let drivers go online or even use cell phones and handheld devices to reserve a space in a garage or locate nearby street parking.
Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:
How to get traffic for your blog — My friend Fred, a talented blogger, asked me for advice the other day. Here's a partial answer, with a few apologies to Swift: — Use lists. — Be topical... write posts that need to be read right now. — Learn enough to become the expert in your field.
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Michael Sciannamea / The Wireless Report:
JetBlue wins wireless license auction bid to offer in-flight WiFi — The offering of WiFi services to passengers while in-flight is still not a given, but if the FAA and FCC ever come to some sort of consensus on the idea, then look for JetBlue Airways to quickly become one of the market leaders in this area.
Keith Reed / Boston Globe:
Comcast upgrade speeds up downloads — Aiming to keep its broadband customers happy without lowering prices, Comcast Corp. is introducing a technology that temporarily doubles users' download speeds. — New England is the first region in the country where Comcast customers can try out the technology …
