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Adobe, Microsoft Could Be Headed to Court...
Adobe, Microsoft Could Be Headed to Court Over PDF Support
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Latest News about Microsoft could soon face another private antitrust Latest News about antitrust suit after talks with Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) Latest News about Adobe broke down over the level of support Microsoft would include for portable document format (PDF) in its upcoming Office 2007 suite.
Reports say Microsoft expects Adobe to file suit, most likely in Europe, where regulators have taken a particularly hard-line stance against Microsoft of late, after talks between the two companies broke down in recent weeks.
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At issue is apparently the ability of Office 2007 users to save a variety of Office document formats -- such as those in Word, Excel or PowerPoint format -- as PDF files. Adobe may feel such a feature poses a threat to its Acrobat software, a paid version of which enables users to do the same thing....
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First StarOffice Virus Detected
First StarOffice Virus Detectedince the virus has not been launched with malicious intent yet, a teenager hacker may have written it, said Roel Schouwenberg, senior research engineer for Kaspersky Lab. The virus uses macros to attack the office suite from Sun Microsystems.
Kaspersky is calling the virus "Stardust." Viruses using macros are rarely seen anymore since simply shutting off a program's macro feature stops them, Schouwenberg said. Macros can be used to automate certain tasks within a document, such as repeated calculations on a spreadsheet....
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Microsoft wants users to actually use Office 2007
Microsoft wants users to actually use Office 2007
MICROSOFT SAYS its upcoming revamp of its Office product will be so easy to use, customers may begin to use more than twenty percent of its functions.
Up until now, Volish research suggests that people use only about twenty percent of the features crammed into the apps they use. Quite why they buy it, then, is anyones guess.
Darren Strange, Product Manager for Office in the UK, told the INQUIRER the software maker had amassed some 300,000 hours of video of folk using Office and had a massive database of facts and figures about how users use the software. He said the data proved "invaluable" to Voles working on the next version, Office 2007, due around the end of this year....
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Take a look here and see....US proposals threaten openness of internet
US proposals threaten openness of internet, warns Berners-Lee
The openness of the internet needs a certain amount of control, but proposed US legislation could create closed-off areas, the World Wide Web Consortiums Tim Berners-Lee has warned.
One of the challenges facing the web is that the network companies that have invested heavily in creating an open, connected infrastructure want...
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The Porcelain talks back!
Pub urinals use tech to warn drunk drivers
POLICE in Nassau Country are installing plastic censors in pub urinals that lecture punters about the perils of drink driving. According to WCBS 880, the device is a Wizmark Urinal Communicator which has a 3.5-inch plastic screen that displays digital files. The device recognises that it is being 'Nintendoed on' and plays an MP3 which suggest you get a cab if you have been drinking.
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Switch Word to safe mode, warns Microsoft
Switch Word to safe mode, warns Microsoft
Microsoft is advising people to run its Word application in 'safe mode' to help guard against a Trojan program that surfaced recently, although security experts said today there still appears little cause for alarm.
"The good news is that it doesn't seem to be very widespread," said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant with antivirus company Sophos. "There have been very, very few reports."
Researchers at F-Secure and Trend Micro also said the number of reported incidents remained low on Wednesday. Trend Micro rates the Trojan as "low risk" because, while the potential for damage is high, the impact so far has been small, said David Sancho, a senior antivirus engineer...
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Will video break the Internet?
Will video break the Internet?
NEW YORK (AP) -- Every day, it seems, a new service pops up offering to send you video over the Internet. "Desperate Housewives," Stephen Colbert heckling the president, clips of bad dancers at wedding parties: It's all there.
You may be up for it, but is the Internet?
The answer from the major Internet service providers, the telephone and cable companies, is "no." Small clips are fine, but TV-quality and especially high-definition programming could make the Internet choke....
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World's most expensive mobile number is 666 6666
The Most Expensive Mobile Number
The world's most expensive phone number was auctioned for charity yesterday in Qatar.
The number, 666 6666, sold for 10m Qatari riyals or £1.5m.
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Samsung Rushes to Introduce Flash-Driven Laptops to Market
Samsung Rushes to Introduce Flash-Driven Laptops to Market
Samsung Electronics twice surprised the computer industry Tuesday, first by announcing that it will be the first firm in the world to sell flash memory-driven laptop computers next month, and then by revealing the sky-high price tags of the products.
The two new laptop models will carry a 32-gigabyte flash memory as their main storage device, dubbed as solid-state drive (SSD), instead of the conventional hard disk drive. The next-generation drive reads data three times faster and writes data 1.5 times faster than hard disks. It also consumes less power and makes no noise while operating, making it an ideal device for portable PCs.....
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