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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Monitor:
THERE'S MORE TO THIS STORY — There is going to be quite a bit to blog about today, with respect to Microsoft. First up, Wall Street Journal reports that closed-door discussions have broken down between Adobe and Microsoft over PDF. Microsoft had planned to incorporate PDF in Office 2007.
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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.
USA Today:
U.S. asks Internet firms to save data — Top law enforcement officials have asked leading Internet companies to keep histories of the activities of Web users for up to two years to assist in criminal investigations of child pornography and terrorism, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
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Bloomberg:
Microsoft, AOL, Google Asked by U.S. to Keep Internet Records — June 1 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. is asking Internet companies including Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and AOL to preserve records of customers' Web activity to aid terrorism and child pornography investigations.
AppleInsider:
Apple's struggles to gain PC market share continue — The popularity of Apple Computer's iPod digital music players is helping it sell more Macs, but so far it hasn't been enough to spark a rise in the company's share of the personal computer market. — According to research firm Gartner …
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Conrad Quilty-Harper / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:Apple's market share falls/rises, depending on who you ask
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Ryan Saghir / Orbitcast:
SIRIUS Wearable Unveiled? Zing's new device (PHOTO) — Looks like CNET has given us a photo of the upcoming Zing Wi-Fi MP3 Player - this very well could be the first actual glimpse we get at the new SIRIUS Wearable device - or at least something close to it.
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Coming soon: the Wi-Fi MP3 player — I love my iPod, but I do not love that it's basically a PC accessory. No PC (or Mac) nearby means no content on the iPod, and no updates. There's got to be a better way. — I've previously covered a company, Music Gremlin, that's building a Wi-Fi-enabled music player.
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Scripting News, TechEffect, Scobleizer, dailywireless.org, Engadget, Anything But iPod and GigaOM
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 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Other Blog Search Engine That Launched Yesterday — Bloglines wasn't the only company to push out a new blog search engine yesterday - Gnoos launched as well. And though their launch timing could not have been more unfortunate, there is a lot about this Australia-focused blog search engine to like.
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Tinfinger, AMCP Tech Blog, Digital Inspiration, Micro Persuasion and Clique Communications
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news.sel.sony.com:
SONY DELIVERS FULL HIGH DEFINITION WITH EXPANDED GRAND WEGA SXRD MICRODISPLAY LINE-UP — Five New Models Include 1080p Inputs with Screen Sizes Up to 70 inches — LOS ANGELES, June 1, 2006 - Strengthening its leadership in the microdisplay market, Sony Electronics today introduced five …
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BBC:
Web users to 'patrol' US border — A US state is to enlist web users in its fight against illegal immigration by offering live surveillance footage of the Mexican border on the internet. — The plan will allow web users worldwide to watch Texas' border with Mexico and phone the authorities …
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Why I think ClickFraud is far greater than imagined. — This is an opinion piece. So take it as such. To all those who have asked me. This is why I think clickfraud FAR exceeds what is being published by search companies. — 1. Bad guys exist. — 2. Bad guys who like to break into computers systems exist for profit.
Dan Choi / Joystiq:
$40 XBL Vision camera & UNO bundle detailed by MS source along with prices & dates for other 360 accessories — Our friendly anonymous source at Microsoft has provided us with a few more details concerning the 360 accessories announced back at E3. — Perhaps the most important involves …
Thomas Mennecke / slyck.com:
ThePirateBay Strikes Back — Great cheers of jubilee echoed in the entertainment Halls of Justice yesterday, confident of their victory against the great Satan, ThePirateBay.org. ThePirateBay.org, as many are aware, was perhaps the largest BitTorrent tracker in history.
Johnporcaro / Gamerscore Blog:
Backwards Compatibility Update Coming Soon — Lots of talk about backwards compatibility online today. We wanted to get to the bottom of it all, so we went right to the team working on the next back compat update. We hear directly from them that they're in the testing phase of another update …
Michael Kwan / mobilemag.com:
New TFT LCD from LG is only 1.48mm thick — Rated: 100% by 2 user(s). — Samsung may try to unofficially claim the throne as the king of slim, but their fellow Korean companies aren't going to give up without a fight. One of their biggest competitors, in the cell phone market anyways …
Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
Russian Download Site Is Popular and Possibly Illegal — PARIS, June 1 — Rising consumer popularity is turning AllofMP3.com, a music downloading service based in Moscow, into a global Internet success story, except for one important detail: The site may well be illegal.
