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Tim Gaden / APC:
The lock-out begins for Office Mac users — Microsoft hsa officially launched Office 2007, but that's bad news for Mac users. — Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 now all use different file formats: docx, xlsx and pptx. — Microsoft is calling these "Microsoft Office Open XML Formats" …
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Sherjo / Mac Mojo:
Converters Coming! Free and (Fairly) Fast. — There's been some pretty alarmist news stories this morning (apcstart.com; CrunchGear) about file format converters and Office for Mac. Because some of these stories seem designed more to inflame than inform, I want to reiterate …
Laurie A. Duncan / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Windows Office 2007 files not compatible with Mac Office 2004 — Delayed or not, the next version of Microsoft Office for Mac can't come soon enough for those who have little choice but to stick with Office in corporate environments. Although we have enjoyed reasonable (but still far from perfect) …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Mac Office compatibility: When 'no comment' just isn't good enough — Reports are cropping up all over that users of older versions of Microsoft's Office for Mac suite cannot exchange documents created with the new Microsoft Office 2007 suite for Windows, due to file-format incompatibilities.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:Web Office APIs - Embracing and Extending Microsoft Office
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Yahoo:
Yahoo! Re-Aligns Organization to More Effectively Focus on Key Customer Segments and Capture Future Growth Opportunities — New Structure to Focus on Serving More Sophisticated Demands of Audiences, Advertisers and Publishers Worldwide — SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec 05, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) …
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Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Execs Meet To Discuss Major Shakeup — Update - 6:15 pm: Yahoo released an official statement about the reorganization at approximately 5:45 p.m. The news confirms the resignation of COO Dan Rosensweig and elaborates on the company's new business focus. Get more details from our update.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Calacanis Takes Position at Sequoia Capital — Today at 7 am PST at the SES conference in Chicago, Weblogs Inc. founder Jason Calacanis will announce that he has joined Sequoia Capital as an EIA (Entrepreneur in Action). This comes just two and a half weeks after Jason announced his departure from AOL.
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:Jason Calacanis Speaks About Digg, Netscape, SEO & Pay Per Post Blogging
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Mark Hachman / ExtremeTech:
AMD: New Chips Consume Half the Power of Core 2 Duo — AMD announced its entry into the 65-nm manufacturing generation Tuesday with a new line of 65-watt "energy-efficient" processors that the company claimed already consumes just under 50 percent less power than the Intel Core 2 Duo.
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple rumored to be eyeing video game market — A recent series of checks by Prudential analyst Jesse Tortora indicate that Apple Computer has hired video game designers and may have aspirations of entering the video game market in long-term. — "We think the video game market represents …
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Hirolog:
DarwiinRemote is released! — What is DarwiinRemote? — DarwiinRemote is a tiny software which reads data from and sends data to Nintendo Wii Remote — Inputs — 3-axis acceleration sensors — all buttons except power button on/off — Output — 4 LEDs — Force Feedback
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (929433) — Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of limited "zero-day" attacks using a vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003 …
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
SimplyHeadlines Is About Five Years Too Late — A company called SimplyHeadlines launched today, calling itself a news service "for the extremely busy." It is a customizable news summary delivered to your email with headlines and summary blurbs only. — SimplyHeadlines features news …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
In Tough Times, a Redesigned Journal — Over the last few years, The Wall Street Journal, like many newspapers, has been expanding, adding new sections — even a Saturday edition. Now, with the newspaper industry struggling with economic and technological change, The Journal is about to shrink.
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Microsoft looking to run Windows on OLPC — Educational laptop could get Windows as well as Linux — Microsoft wants to make its Windows operating system available on the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) notebook computers, OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at the NetEvents conference in Hong Kong on Saturday.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Entrepreneur Idol competition shows digital media is hot — perhaps too hot — Yesterday, VentureBeat joined venture capital firm Charles River Ventures to judge the first CRV Entrepreneur Idol competition. — Held at Stanford, the competition provided great insight on the interests …
Ben Elgin / Business Week:
The Vanishing Click-Fraud Case — Why was a seemingly slam-dunk case against an alleged click-fraudster who attempted to extort Google quietly dismissed? — A detective novelist might call it The Mystery of the Vanishing Click-Fraud Case. — It began on Mar. 10, 2004 …
