Round Up: MS Office; MSN In France; News Of The World

–Microsoft has issued an update for Office Mobile, which gives it compatibility with Office 2007 documents — basically it can handle the Office Open XML (OOXML) format. The update pack also includes enhancements for viewing Excel spreadsheets, the ability to view SmartArt in PowerPoint Mobile, and the ability to view files in ZIP folders and extract them reports ZDNet UK.

–French operator SFR is will offer Windows Live Messenger access from its handsets, partnering with NeuStar to let people use the same login information and get the same buddy lists as they have on their desktop, reports Mobile Europe.

–British tabloid News of the World has launched a WAP site (newsoftheworld.mobi) which will have the paper’s “top five” exclusives available on saturday night, before they appear in the Sunday print edition. The paper launched a subscription Java service in March — the WAP content is generally free but readers can buy videos for 50p reports Journalism.co.uk.

— Mobile game firm Vollee has got a write-up in RCR News, with a new business model: “The San Mateo, Calif.-based firm is hawking a kind of placeshifting technology that allows gamers to play PC- and console-based titles on 3G phones. Games are adopted for wireless phones by simplifying controls and streamlining gameplay, and are streamed to handsets where a media player transforms the content into what Vollee hopes is an immersive

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