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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Let Amazon decide for you

Technology companies' innovative spirit is taking them into new territory: devising their own laws on how you use their services and devices | IslamOnline.net

You own your PDF files — unless, or until, they think otherwise. This may come as bad news since, if you are like many, you probably use PDF (Portable Document Format) for saving a variety of file types: text documents, pictures, and scan images, among others. 

In fact, PDF has become so widespread that the ability to display (and even annotate) PDF files has become almost a standard requirement in smart phones and e-book readers, such as Amazon's and Sony's.

PDF, of course, does not think.