News.com Daily Podcast: Adobe puts its tech chops on display
Adobe shows off ambitious Acrobat; Major League Baseball strikes out in IP dispute; and Yahoo's pay plan leaks.
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While Google and Microsoft get most of the attention when it comes to online office suites, Adobe Systems is slowly but surely getting onto the radar. What you've got here is the makings of a very interesting alternative for computer users who have, until now, been accustomed to choosing from a menu with only two basic offerings.
CNET's Elsa Wenzel, who has been reviewing Adobe's latest beta release, talks about where the company is taking its technology.
Major League Baseball was hoping it would receive help from the Supreme Court in its dispute with a fantasy baseball company. Unfortunately for MLB, it was never ahead in the count.
We all know Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and his team were keen on extracting as high a price as possible from Microsoft, and newly released documents underscore just how far the company was willing to go to make that happen.
Today's stories:
Mars lander's robotic arm makes contact
Adobe Acrobat takes big online leap
Microsoft's Robbie Bach 'thought about killing' Surface
Minnesota town tells Google Maps to get lost
Supreme Court rejects fantasy baseball dispute
Exec: Ad industry must think small to tap social sites
New metrics, user controls for Facebook's platform
Mars lander's robotic arm makes contact
Yahoo fails to keep pay plan details secret