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Microsoft Plays Politics
(PC World)
PC World - Its antitrust experience has awakened the software giant to the benefits of funding trips and campaigns.
Spam king settles with Texas, Microsoft
(AP)
AP - One of the world's most notorious spammers has settled lawsuits with the state of Texas and Microsoft Corp. that cost him at least $1 million, took away most of his assets and forced him to stop sending the nuisance e-mails.
Microsoft Drops PDF From Office
(PC World)
PC World - Update: Support for Adobe's format withdrawn after legal threat.
Talks with Adobe to use PDF break down: Microsoft
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Microsoft Corp.'s negotiations
to use Adobe Systems Inc.'s technology in its new
Office business software broke down earlier this week and Adobe
threatened legal action, Microsoft's top antitrust lawyer said
on Friday.
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Sun, Microsoft eye high-performance computing, AJAX
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems and Microsoft are progressing with programming language research efforts aiming at high-performance computing (HPC) and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), respectively.
Microsoft in PDF Tussle with Adobe
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Adobe appears ready to file an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in Europe following the breakdown of negotiations between the two firms over Microsoft's use of Adobe's PDF technology.
Microsoft, Adobe Systems in ongoing spat
(AP)
 AP - Microsoft Corp. said it has canceled plans to include an automatic way to save documents in the popular PDF format in the next version of its Office software, amid an ongoing dispute with Adobe Systems Inc.
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Bowing To Adobe, Microsoft Strips PDF Support From 2007 Office
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft is getting rid of the popular "save as PDF" feature.
Google Deal Might Help Dell Talks With Microsoft
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Gartner also thinks at least three more of the top PC vendors to strike similar deals with Google.
Adobe Forces Microsoft To Drop PDF From Office 2007
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - In another potential legal morass for the developers, Adobe Systems Inc. is poised to file an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, according to widely published reports, and it could lead to a long and complex case.
Storage demands flash memory industry
(AP)
 AP - Bill Healy held the future in his pocket.
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Researcher looks to PCs for medical cures
(AP)
 AP - Researcher David Baker believes the key to an AIDS vaccine or a cure for cancer may be that old PC sitting under a layer of dust in your closet or the one on your desk doing little else but running a screen saver. Those outdated or idle computers may be just what Baker needs to turn his ideas into scientific breakthroughs.
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Hotels.com customer info may be at risk
(AP)
AP - Thousands of Hotels.com customers may be at risk for credit card fraud after a laptop computer containing their personal information was stolen from an auditor, a company spokesman said Saturday.
Swedes protest police shutdown of Web site
(AP)
AP - Hundreds of people waving signs and skull-and-crossbones pirate flags demonstrated in Stockholm on Saturday against a police crackdown on a popular file-sharing Web site with millions of users worldwide.
Robots help hospitalized students keep up
(AP)
AP - Lying in his hospital room, on a mattress designed to protect his fragile skin, 13-year-old Achim Nurse poked his bandaged fingers at an orange button on what looked like a souped-up video game console.
YouTube channeling its users
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Video search site
YouTube has unveiled a reconfigured Web site in response to a
relaunch by rival Yahoo of its own viral service.
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"Deal" continues for online gamers
(Reuters)
Reuters - Fans of NBC's "Deal or
No Deal" will be able to continue guessing which suitcase holds
the least amount of cash even after Monday night's season
finale. Online video game site http://www.King.com has launched
two new versions of the hit game show, giving players the
chance to compete for cash prizes.
Brussels shake-up looms for airwaves regime
(FT.com)
FT.com - Mobile phone companies, TV groups and broadband providers may have to compete against rivals across Europe for access to prized airwaves under European Union plans to shake up the continent's spectrum regime.
Mozilla Squashes Bugs
(PC World)
PC World - Firefox, Thunderbird users urged to update to patch serious flaws.
Microsoft Plays Politics
(PC World)
PC World - Its antitrust experience has awakened the software giant to the benefits of funding trips and campaigns.
YouTube channeling its users
(Reuters)
Reuters - Video search site
YouTube has unveiled a reconfigured Web site in response to a
relaunch by rival Yahoo of its own viral service.
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Swedish Security Police probe suspected Web attacks
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Sweden's domestic intelligence agency
said it would probe why the government's Web site crashed on
Sunday amid reports hackers had sought revenge for a crackdown
on alleged online piracy.
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Swedes protest police shutdown of Web site
(AP)
AP - Hundreds of people waving signs and skull-and-crossbones pirate flags demonstrated in Stockholm on Saturday against a police crackdown on a popular file-sharing Web site with millions of users worldwide.
Emmis stations add iTunes stores to their websites
(Reuters)
Reuters - Listeners to hip-hop bastions WQHT
New York and KPWR Los Angeles have a new way to enjoy music --
at 99 cents a pop.
In digital pricing wars, music's value open to debate
(Reuters)
Reuters - The major labels put aside their
fight with Apple Computer over the pricing of digital music
when they all signed new one-year licensing deals for the
iTunes Music Store in April. But the industry debate over what
a song should cost is anything but over.
Rumsfeld toughs it out as debate roils
(AP)
 AP - When Donald H. Rumsfeld became defense secretary in 2001, he posted a chatty list of rules to live and work by on the Pentagon's Web site. "Rumsfeld's Rules," as they were called, are long gone now. But two of them in particular resonate during this time of war and recrimination.
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Grateful Dead keyboardist dies
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Vince Welnick, who took over as
the Grateful Dead's keyboard player in 1990 after a succession
of predecessors met untimely deaths, has died at the age of 55,
according to an announcement on his Web site.
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JetBlue wins air-ground wireless license
(AP)
 AP - JetBlue Airways Corp. won a government auction Friday for wireless spectrum that could be used to provide in-flight telephone, Internet, or entertainment services.
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Net2Phone Sues Skype For Patent Infringement
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Net2Phone, the Internet telephone unit of IDT Corp. has filed a lawsuit against eBay Inc.'s Skype Internet telephone unit, accusing the unit of infringing a Net2Phone patent.
Viral video sharing is new headache for music biz
(Reuters)
 Reuters - As the recording industry tries to
block file trading of songs across peer-to-peer networks, blogs
and other viral distribution channels, the major labels
suddenly have a whole new piracy concern: music videos.
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