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Facebook to let users carry profile with them (AP)
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.

Conference attendees in San Francisco sickened (AP)
AP - It's a new kind of virus for Sun Microsystems Inc.

Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident (AP)

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.

Microsoft appeals$1.4B EU antitrust fine (AP)
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.

EBay's PayPal rule in Australia draws fire (AP)

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.

Advocacy groups take aim at Google-Yahoo partnership (AP)
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.

Freeway Web site editor adds RSS Feed action (Macworld.com)
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.

Virgin Mobile USA and Korea's SK in talks: source (Reuters)

Reuters - Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile USA Inc and South Korea's SK Telecom Co, which controls U.S. mobile service Helio, are in early talks on a deal, a person familiar with the discussions said on Friday.

Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux (InfoWorld)
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.

Hackers Find a New Place to Hide Rootkits (PC World)
PC World - Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a...

MySpace Makes Data Portable to Other Web Sites (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The move toward data portability for denizens of social-networking sites gained more momentum Thursday with MySpace's announcement of its Data Availability project.

"Pirates"maker to turn"BioShock"game into film (Reuters)

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.