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Brian Jones / Open XML Formats:
Legal issues around PDF support — About 8 months ago we announced to our MVPs that we would provide PDF publish support natively in the 2007 Office system. We made the move due to overwhelming customer demand for PDF support, and it was received really well.
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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 …
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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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 …
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Slashdot
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
eBay to Launch Blogs, Wikis and Search Tags — Auction giant eBay is preparing to integrate blog and wiki publishing tools into its selling platform, according to a report on Auctionbytes. eBay Blogs will enable sellers to more efficiently market their products. eBay Wikis meanwhile collect …
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Ina Steiner / auctionbytes.com:eBay to Launch Blogs & Wiki Features
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B.L. Ochman's weblog, Jeff Clavier's Software Only, Bloggers Blog and Rex Hammock's Weblog
Marshall Kirkpatrick / The Social Software Weblog: eBay to include blogs, wikis - will people use them?
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Vista beta sucks up battery juice — Windows Vista delivers some pretty snazzy new graphics, but all that "wow" can be a real drain. — With the new version of Windows, Microsoft has created an operating system that offers advances in many areas, but laptop battery life is not one of them.
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M-Dollar
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Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
VOIP, Cellphone Bills Could Rise for Subsidy — Consumers could see their mobile and Internet telephone bills rise under a Federal Communications Commission proposal that would increase the amount such companies pay to subsidize telephone service in poor and rural parts of the country.
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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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Ken / frappr.com:
Recent Shoutouts: — super target @ turkey creek = 0; target @ downtown west = 0; walmart @ walker springs = 0; walmart @ clinton highway = 0; circuit city @ n. peters = 0; best buy @ n. peters shows shipment on 06/10 — CAlled walmart and the lady siad she sold many today.
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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.
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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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
YARR! Swedish police site broadsided after Pirate Bay raid — It looks like the raid on The Pirate Bay and confiscation of its servers upset somebody. That's one conclusion to be drawn from the sudden unavailability of the web site of Sweden's national police.
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 …
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple Needs to Get Its Game On — It's time for Apple to use some of its superior design skills to come up with a game for the beleaguered Mac loyalist — like me — I've been a Macintosh partisan since the very earliest days. I first touched a Mac mouse when I was on my high school's newspaper staff.
mozilla.com:
What's New in Firefox 1.5.0.4 — Firefox 1.5.0.4 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version. — Improvements to product stability — Several security fixes
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
eBay tries e-mail in Net neutrality fight — SAN JOSE, Calif.—eBay this week unleashed a political machine that should make politicians envious: a national e-mail blast over Net neutrality. — Meg Whitman, chief executive of the Internet auctioneer, called on more than a million eBay members …
