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<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot:

*	Yahoo has [announced a new service, dubbed pipes][5], that lets you mashup web services to create custom RSS feeds. Pipes features a drag and drop editor that lets you grab data sources, combine the and generates RSS feeds for your mashup. Examples include an NYTimes-Flickr mashup that matches NYTimes headlines to relevant images.

[5]: http://pipes.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Pipes"

*	Mozilla has [released Firefox 3 alpha 2][3]. The build is intended for developers only, with the final product slated to ship sometime later this year. 

[3]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a2/releasenotes/ "Firefox 3 alpha 2"

*	Sun has [announced an ODF plugin][1] for Microsoft Word 2003. Organizations looking to switch from proprietary document formats to open standards can download the plugin beginning in April. A similar plugin from Microsoft is already available. There's some [screenshots][2] on the Sun blogs.

[1]: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-07-2007/0004522369&EDATE= "Sun Microsystems Announces OpenDocument Format (ODF) Plug-in Application for Microsoft Office"
[2]: http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/what_sun_s_odf_plug "Sun ODF plugin screenshots"

*	Office apps will be [bundled with Windows Mobile 6][4]. Microsoft will be release Windows Mobile 6 next week and plans to pre-load it with mobile versions of Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

[4]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070207/tc_infoworld/85851 "Microsoft to put Office in Win Mobile 6"