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• Microsoft offers Web embeddable PowerPoint, Excel

  Microsoft has added new capabilities to its online Microsoft Office companion service that allow users to embed PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets on their own websites.

• Cloud-based source code host adds Git

  Codesion, which offers hosted source code management, has added the Git distributed version control system to its services, the company said this week.

• OSCON: Open source lazy about social Web services

  While open-source coders have done a remarkable job of providing a complete open-source software stack, they haven't kept up with the emergence of Web services, charges an executive from a prominent open-source foundation.

• Cloud computing will surpass the Internet in importance

  Cloud computing will top the Internet in importance as development of the Web continues, according to a university professor who spoke on Friday at the World Future Society conference in Boston.

• Facebook engineer: Going large requires thinking small

  When managing a constantly expanding system with many moving parts, it is crucial to break the system into large numbers of small pieces and manage them with lots of small, dedicated teams, advised Bobby Johnson, who is director of engineering for Facebook, at the Usenix Annual Technical Conference in Boston.

• HP enables remote printing via an e-mail address

  Forthcoming Hewlett-Packard printers that are priced at more than $US99 will let users print remotely using mobile phones and other wireless devices, without needing a traditional PC, the company announced on Monday.

• Melbourne IT moves to web services

  Melbourne IT has embarked upon a three year, $18 million integrated web services project aimed at providing the services company with a single view of its customers.

• Google helps users jump ship to rival Web services

  In a move that flouts common business logic, Google is making it as easy as possible for people to migrate away from its services -- including Google Docs, Gmail and Blogger -- and by doing so is positioning itself to be users' first port of call within the so-called cloud that many software companies see as the future for computing.

• Is the WSTF one Web services forum too many?

  Vendors including IBM and Oracle are launching an industry organization Monday for Web services interoperability, despite the existence of another Web services interoperability group with many of the same members.

• Volantis integrates mobile phones and web services

  Companies running mobile web sites can integrate content from Google Docs, Picasa or Flickr to create mobile mashups adapted for any phone with a browser using updated software from Volantis Systems, the company said on Wednesday.