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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/738 Technology News en-us Fri, 09 May 2008 21:26:55 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/738 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_hi_te/open_facebook ap/20080509/open_facebook AP Fri, 09 May 2008 20:56:50 GMT 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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_eu ap/20080509/microsoft_eu AP Fri, 09 May 2008 21:04:35 GMT 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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_hi_te/shuttle_recovered_data ap/20080509/shuttle_recovered_data AP Fri, 09 May 2008 21:25:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_hi_te/shuttle_recovered_data"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.7921c28576c34bc49f2848ca732d6e48.shuttle_recovered_data_nybz134.jpg?x=124&y=130&q=85&sig=96DiPNqo6IlsxD5pMjYsOQ--" align="left" height="130" width="124" alt="In this photo provided by Kroll Ontrack Inc., a data drive that fell from the space shuttle Columbia when it was destroyed in 2003 is shown. During Columbia's fateful final mission, the drive had been used to capture data from a scientific experiment on the way xenon gas flows. (AP Photo/Kroll Ontrack Inc.)" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_hi_te/shuttle_recovered_data"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.7921c28576c34bc49f2848ca732d6e48.shuttle_recovered_data_nybz134.jpg?x=124&y=130&q=85&sig=96DiPNqo6IlsxD5pMjYsOQ--" align="left" height="130" width="124" alt="photo" title="In this photo provided by Kroll Ontrack Inc., a data drive that fell from the space shuttle Columbia when it was destroyed in 2003 is shown. During Columbia's fateful final mission, the drive had been used to capture data from a scientific experiment on the way xenon gas flows. (AP Photo/Kroll Ontrack Inc.)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_hi_te/ebay_paypal_only ap/20080509/ebay_paypal_only AP Fri, 09 May 2008 16:11:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_hi_te/ebay_paypal_only"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.c1ceedaafc234edca1c66c5424ad67ca.ebay_paypal_only_nybz197.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=hnarea4L218Et5OLw2kylw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this April 15, 2008 file photo, a sign outside eBay headquarters in San Jose, Calif. is seen. EBay 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 in June 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_hi_te/ebay_paypal_only"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.c1ceedaafc234edca1c66c5424ad67ca.ebay_paypal_only_nybz197.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=hnarea4L218Et5OLw2kylw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this April 15, 2008 file photo, a sign outside eBay headquarters in San Jose, Calif. is seen. EBay 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 in June 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_hi_te/amazon_state_tax ap/20080509/amazon_state_tax AP Fri, 09 May 2008 16:49:23 GMT AP - Texas officials may claim that Amazon.com owes millions in sales taxes on purchases that state residents made from the Internet retailer. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_hi_te/google_yahoo_antitrust ap/20080509/google_yahoo_antitrust AP Fri, 09 May 2008 21:19:06 GMT AP - An online advertising partnership between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. is facing opposition from consumer and civic groups that didn't wait for an official deal announcement to voice their discontent. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20080509/tc_macworld/freewaywebsiteeditoraddsrssfeedaction macworld/20080509/freewaywebsiteeditoraddsrssfeedaction Macworld.com Fri, 09 May 2008 12:00:01 GMT 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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_en_mu/people_foxy_brown ap/20080509/people_foxy_brown AP Fri, 09 May 2008 19:11:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_en_mu/people_foxy_brown"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.c8b4fa62dc9943fb8e1eadcf131863e4.people_foxy_brown_ny474.jpg?x=117&y=130&q=85&sig=NroZ172e.mJxYdmgF8iUfw--" align="left" height="130" width="117" alt="In this Sept. 22, 2005 file photo, rapper Foxy Brown exits Manhattan criminal court in New York. Brown has pleaded guilty to menacing a neighbor with her cell phone last year. She avoided jail based on time already served. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, file)" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_en_mu/people_foxy_brown"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.c8b4fa62dc9943fb8e1eadcf131863e4.people_foxy_brown_ny474.jpg?x=117&y=130&q=85&sig=NroZ172e.mJxYdmgF8iUfw--" align="left" height="130" width="117" alt="photo" title="In this Sept. 22, 2005 file photo, rapper Foxy Brown exits Manhattan criminal court in New York. Brown has pleaded guilty to menacing a neighbor with her cell phone last year. She avoided jail based on time already served. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, file)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080509/tc_infoworld/100584 infoworld/20080509/100584 InfoWorld Fri, 09 May 2008 17:53:02 GMT 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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080509/tc_pcworld/145703 pcworld/20080509/145703 PC World Fri, 09 May 2008 21:00:15 GMT PC World - Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_hi_te/tech_conference_virus ap/20080509/tech_conference_virus AP Fri, 09 May 2008 21:26:55 GMT AP - It's a new kind of virus for Sun Microsystems Inc. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/tc_nm/bioshock_dc nm/20080509/bioshock_dc Reuters Fri, 09 May 2008 18:51:21 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/tc_nm/bioshock_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080509/2008_05_09t160446_450x343_us_bioshock.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=j6UmAjHrq3q78acuFRuERQ--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="A screenshot from the hit video game 'BioShock' about an underwater utopia gone disastrously wrong. (Take-Two Interactive Software/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/tc_nm/bioshock_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080509/2008_05_09t160446_450x343_us_bioshock.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=j6UmAjHrq3q78acuFRuERQ--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="photo" title="A screenshot from the hit video game 'BioShock' about an underwater utopia gone disastrously wrong. (Take-Two Interactive Software/Handout/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters)