HP to Ship Netscape on PCs in 2006
Starting next year, Hewlett-Packard's PC customers will be able to select the Netscape browser as their default window to the Internet, the companies have announced.
The Netscape 8 browser will ship on HP's PCs in the United States and Canada starting early next year, with links to it both in the Start menu and on the desktop of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. Users also will be able to make the browser their default choice when setting up a new HP PC.

Yahoo begins effort to bring books online for reading
Internet search giant Yahoo responded Monday to rival Google's plans to make books available for reading online by introducing its own version.
The key difference: Yahoo is not scanning copyrighted works, as Google did before publishers called foul and it temporarily stopped. Instead, Yahoo is paying for the scanning of older, out of print titles and making them searchable through the Yahoo index and a new website at opencontentalliance.org.

Microsoft to include native support for PDF in Office 12Microsoft increasingly is leveraging its MSDN Blogs to unveil news about upcoming products, especially developer tools as well as components of software such as Windows Vista and the Office suite. Program manager Brian Jones used his latest post to confirm to the community that the upcoming Office package will integrate support for Adobe PDF format in all core applications.