Ascender Teams With Microsoft, Strips “Core” from Web Fonts
Ascender Corp. and Microsoft have entered into in agreement allowing Ascender to distribute Microsoft’s fonts, including the Windows Core Fonts and the Microsoft Web Fonts, which up until about two-and-a-half years ago were available free of charge on Microsoft’s web site.
One of the benefits of this agreement, [...]

Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide
Adobe Systems to Acquire Macromedia for $3.4 Billion

Several potential areas of concern there posted @ Jacobian.org…

At first I was thrilled, but the terms of service are disconcerting at best. Here’s some excerpts:

By accepting this Agreement and uploading Your Authorized Content to Google, you are directing and authorizing Google to, and granting Google a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive right and license to, host, cache, [...]

Marginal Revolution: Is Shaq the greatest?

Starbucks is #42 on the Business Ethics 100; Nike is #31. Neither firm is without controversy. But today comes a bit of news about each which underscores why these companies made the list.
Starbucks announced today that it is committing to buying 5% of the electricity for US stores from renewable power sources; the move will [...]

Since I haven’t seen anyone posting about this, I suppose I will. I’m guessing not many people have it yet, but there’s a new feature in Gmail called Web Clips, which displays little headlines above your inbox or message and is fed via, um, feeds.
You can add your own feeds and/or choose from their selection. [...]

For all you Apple users, Tiger is scheduled to be released on the 29th. I guess it’d be cool to have an OS update on my bday but since I don’t own an Apple product it doesn’t count

This is going to be a very busy week for me. I’ve got two midterms (one of which was a take-home that is due tonight and I’ve got to put the finishing touches on it), I’ve also got 4 other school related projects due this week. Outside of school I’ve got 2 projects [...]

An article in PC World mentions that software engineers who attend Microsoft’s annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference later this month could get their first taste of a new Windows user permissions model that could change the way thousands of programs are developed and run. But as the company prepares for the final Longhorn development push, [...]

Something you might want to consider if you blog about your professional career.