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...could use the firm's technology to integrate RSS into the popular Yahoo! Mail service. Early next year, Apple plans to release a new version of its Safari Web browser, complete with a built-in RSS news reader. Still, mass-market adoption of RSS will probably depend on Microsoft incorporating a news reader into its next Internet Explorer or Outlook e-mail program. So far, the company has given no indication of any such plans. But if RSS numbers continue to grow, the phenomenon will become too big for Microsoft to ignore. And that could give bloggers like Robert Andrews...
...place," reckons Credit Suisse First Boston economist Neville Hill: buoyant oil prices are contributing to higher inflation, but the bank can't raise rates because that would further strengthen the euro. Right now, the most Trichet can do is complain. Dividing to conquer? Could an antitrust cease-fire between Microsoft and its most bitter rivals spell trouble for the E.U.'s competition police? The software behemoth last week convinced its competitor Novell to lay down arms in exchange for a $536 million payoff; Microsoft also ended a battle with the Washington D.C.-based Computer & Communications Industry Association. (Cell-phonemaker Nokia...
...pages long, single-spaced, and was accompanied by two illustrations done completely on the computer. Who needs hand-drawn figures when you can include high-resolution vector graphics from Adobe Illustrator outputted in EPS format for inclusion in a PostScript document? Who wants to use ordinary ol’ Microsoft Word and Excel when you can use PSTricks and LaTeX to generate book-quality pages? Who wants to spend four to eight hours cranking out this lab report when you can spend nine to fourteen hours—all in a row—to make sure that...
...sleep, efficiency, maybe a little bit of sanity. But look what I can do! How many humanities concentrators (I’m in history) know how to use LaTeX, BibTeX, and PSTricks—professional software used in math and sciences—to typeset their term papers? (Microsoft Word is for amateurs.) How many people can just glance at a document and be able to tell that the text is Times Roman 11.5 point instead of 12? How many people can tell the difference between Times Roman and Times New Roman? I’m guessing not many...
...wonder So you've just touched down in Miami and you want to go out for a mojito. You have two options: trawl through a weighty guidebook or simply glance at your watch - if it's the new Paparazzi timepiece. Developed by Swiss firm Swatch and software giant Microsoft, the Paparazzi receives and displays chunks of digital text on its face just like a mobile phone. Swatch has hooked up with listings magazine Time Out to provide hot tips on where to eat, drink and dance. Information is transmitted over local, unused FM radio channels, which means that the entertainment...