Old news for June 2006

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Bill Gates will Retire from Microsoft 

2006.06.16Microsoft Corp. said its founder and longtime leader Bill Gates will step down from his day-to-day duties at the software giant in July 2008 to focus full-time on his nonprofit foundation.

Amazon Starts Selling Groceries Online

2006.06.16Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. has started selling groceries on its Web site, a cautious step into a business that was one of the biggest casualties of the dot-com collapse.

MySpace to auction new search function 

2006.06.14MySpace, the internet site that lets users build their own homepage and profiles, plans to auction off its search function to either Google, Yahoo or MSN. From BBC news.

Google GBuy set to be released on June 28th

2006.06.13Google will start an online payment system this month that will challenge EBay Inc.'s PayPal and let Google offer more targeted ads.

Google released: AdWords Editor (beta)

2006.06.07A new downloadable software to manage your Adwords campaigns.
http://services.google.com/adwordseditor/index.html

New tool: SEO Rank Checker

2006.06.07A free tool for you to check your MSN, Yahoo and Google position on any keyword you desire. Here

New feature from Google: Spreadsheet

2006.06.06Create basic spreadsheets from scratch.
You can start from scratch and do all the basics, including changing the number format, sorting by columns, and adding formulas.
Upload your spreadsheet files.
Upload spreadsheets or worksheets from CSV or XLS format - all your formulas and formatting will come across intact.
Familiar desktop feel makes editing a breeze.
Just click the toolbar buttons to bold, underline, change the font, change the cell background color and more.
http://www.google.com/googlespreadsheets/tour1.html

New tool: Google PR checker

2006.06.04A free tool you can use to check your Google PR (page rank) without the need of the Google toolbar.
http://www.webmasterspy.com/tools/google_pr_checker.html

Microsoft removes the PDF Saving Feature

2006.06.03Microsoft said it had canceled the plans to include an automatic way to save documents in a PDF format in the next version of its Office software, folowing a dispute with Adobe Systems Inc.
Instead, users who purchase Office 2007, due out in January, will have to download separate, free software to save Word, Excel and other Office documents as PDF files.

Yahoo launches a new video site

2006.06.01You can now upload you own videos to this new site. The redesigned Yahoo Video page will include a search box at the top and editorially chosen feature videos that are topical, interesting or popular among viewers. Users can also browse for video by categories or user-generated tags.
http://video.yahoo.com/

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