Facebook to let users carry profile with them
(AP)
AP - The popular online social hangout Facebook says it's setting up a new system that will allow its 70 million users to take their personal profiles with them as they surf other Web sites.
Microsoft appeals $1.4B EU antitrust fine
(AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it has appealed a $1.39 billion fine imposed in February by the European Commission for the company's failure to comply with a 2004 antitrust order.
Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident
(AP)
AP - Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.
EBay's PayPal rule in Australia draws fire
(AP)
AP - EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month.
Texas may claim Amazon owes sales taxes
(AP)
AP - Texas officials may claim that Amazon.com owes millions in sales taxes on purchases that state residents made from the Internet retailer.
McCain and blogger trade barbs over his 2000 vote
(Reuters)
Reuters - Did U.S. Republican presidential
candidate John McCain vote for President George W. Bush in
2000?
Freeway Web site editor adds RSS Feed action
(Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Softpress Systems on Thursday announced the release of Freeway 5.1, a new version of its Web design software for Mac OS X. A free update for 5.0 users, Freeway is available in Express and Pro versions for $79 or $249 respectively.
Foxy Brown pleads guilty to menacing Brooklyn neighbor
(AP)
AP - Rapper Foxy Brown has pleaded guilty to menacing a neighbor with her cell phone last year. She avoided jail based on time already served.
Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and CTO at the Linux Foundation. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Murdock at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week to talk about open source and how Sun, with its OpenSolaris version of the Solaris Unix platform, will fare in the open-source arena versus Linux.
Microsoft appeals against EU fine
(Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft said on Friday it
was appealing against a record 899 million euro ($1.39 billion)
fine imposed by the European Commission for using high prices
to discourage software competition.
MySpace Makes Data Portable to Other Web Sites
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The move toward data portability for denizens of social-networking sites gained more momentum Thursday with MySpace's announcement of its Data Availability project.
"Pirates" maker to turn "BioShock" game into film
(Reuters)
Reuters - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc
said on Friday that "Pirates of the Caribbean"
director Gore Verbinski will make a movie version of
"BioShock," its hit video game about an underwater utopia gone
disastrously wrong.