pdf in news
RSS pdf in newsGoogle archives 200 years of news
News A separate service, Google Book Search, now offers PDF files of scanned books that can be downloaded and printed for free. Google is growing its news archive to include stories that go back as far as 200 years. [07 Sep 2006]
Google offers books for free
News Google Book Search now offers PDF files of scanned books that can be downloaded and printed for free, Google announced on Wednesday. A carefully worded note on usage from Google, included as the first page of each... [31 Aug 2006]
Microsoft clashes with Adobe over PDF support
News Microsoft is bracing itself for a legal battle in Europe with Adobe Systems, following a breakdown in negotiations last week over the use of Adobe's PDF technology in Microsoft's Office applications suite. [05 Jun 2006]
Beware the 'pod-slurping' employee
News And yet in two minutes it's possible to extract about 100MB of Word, Excel, PDF files - basically anything which might contain business data - and with a 60GB iPod you could probably have every business document in a... [15 Feb 2006]
Virus alert: Nyxem set to spring on 3 February
News Once active, Nyxem will delete all Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF file types from a compromised PC. Businesses have been warned to brace themselves for a possible traffic spike next week caused by the Nyxem virus. [27 Jan 2006]
Google set to push play on Video Store
News Also on Friday, Google announced Google Pack: a software package that includes homegrown programs such as Google Talk, the Google Toolbar, the Google Desktop, Google Alerts and the Google Video Player, as well as third-party software... [09 Jan 2006]
Gates pens disruptive memo
News He also points to the fact that although Microsoft's Office is ubiquitous, it is Adobe's PDF file that has emerged as the key means of sending formatted documents on the web. Microsoft is proposing its own rival to... [09 Nov 2005]
£100 iTunes download exposes mobile roaming rip-off
News A search on Vodafone's site for its roaming charges used 545.2Kb (including a download of the PDF file that held the pricing information) which would have cost over £5 from abroad at the company's standard charge of £10... [01 Nov 2005]
P2P pirates face more time in the slammer
News Under US sentencing guidelines (PDF), the base offence level for uploading infringing files is 12 but can be reduced to 10 if it is non-commercial copyright infringement. Internet pirates with pre-release movies in their... [21 Oct 2005]
Microsoft embraces PDF for Office 12
News Microsoft announced on Sunday that Office 12 would support saving documents in PDF format. That's built into Vista, and we hope that it will become the prevalent standard in the longer term but we'll support... [03 Oct 2005]
Massachusetts finalises its Microsoft snub
News The reference model also confirms that Adobe's PDF format is considered an "open format". He also questioned the state's endorsement of Adobe PDF and the decision to rely on standards organisations. Zuck... [26 Sep 2005]
Blunder in Word shows government terror doubts
News However, Adobe is quick to defend the role the PDF format can play for business. The UK government is once again in trouble over dodgy document management, with an apparent split within the government over new hard-line... [16 Sep 2005]
Adobe beefs up workflow software
News Looking to garner more sales to business customers, Adobe has beefed up its server software for handling the flow of business forms based on the PDF format. LifeCycle Document Services, which starts at $65,000 per... [05 Sep 2005]
Massachusetts ditches Microsoft for open source
News In a paper laying out the state technology strategy, Massachusetts specified only two document types that could be used in the future: OpenDocument, used in open source applications such as OpenOffice.org, and PDF - said... [02 Sep 2005]
FBI invites bids for Sentinel project
News A May 2004 report (PDF here) from the National Academies found "inadequate" management of VCF by the bureau and warned that if the system were activated all at once as planned, it would run a "very high risk" of... [11 Aug 2005]
