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Flash is dead. The Steve Jobs-vindicating news was officially delivered by the BBC last night in a muted message that video from the UK's public broadcaster's online site is now being made available for playback on iOS devices.

Eat your heart out, Android users, at long last Adobe Flash is on the way to an Apple iPad or iPhone, with one huge advantage: you don't need Flash, sort of.

I thought the Web meant INSTANT access to information. Why then do I have to watch 30 seconds of an ad, and then 2 minutes of some vacuous TV anchor person JUST to find out a single word's worth of information?

Despite the increase, Netflix is still cheap. But this could be the start down a slippery slope for the company.

Facebook is on a search for new, sticky features; Skype video calling integration isn't it, it seems. After the big buildup, yesterday's "awesome" announcement turned out to be pretty pedestrian. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers yawn at Mark Zuckerberg's big snoozefest. Not to mention this great British idea: Shop the online grocery store, while you wait for your train...

Apple has responded to the mass criticism of its latest release, Final Cut Pro X, promising some missing features will be made available soon, while others won't appear until the "next major release". But, is this good enough for annoyed pro users? How could Apple have minimized the criticism, and in this post-PC age is the company still really committed to its professional markets?

Apple has struck again, with the introduction of its own true 64-bit pro-video editing superhero, Final Cut Pro X, introducing important changes in the way the software handles, ingests, encodes and manages video production workflow. And in a sign of the times the self-declared 'jaw-dropping' release is available only via the Mac App Store -- at a fraction the price of Adobe Premiere.

It's happened again. I'm losing a device that I depend on, because it is considered too old-fashioned to live.

Adobe wrote its suicide note way back in 1998, when it refused to help Apple and Steve Jobs in creating video software for Macs. Next week's Final Cut Pro 8 release will be the final nail in the Adobe coffin.

YouTube may be the reigning king of online video, but Microsoft, very quietly, has jumped to the number 2 spot in online video watching, leaping from number 7 to number 2 in a single month. It's now ahead of many rivals, including Hulu, Yahoo, Turner, AOL, and others.

Sales guy bursts into the office of this support pilot fish, phone pressed to his ear, and blurts out "IHaveAVirusIHaveAVirusI'mLateForAMeetingFixThis!"

User complains that there's a problem with her PC's video card: It's not rendering colors correctly. But when this pilot fish checks it out, everything looks fine -- including the very nice image that's being used for wallpaper.

A friend of mine once said she likes going to the mailbox because of the possibility of getting money in the mail -an expense reimbursement check, a rebate, or maybe even $5 bill in a birthday card from grandma. I feel the same way about the mail, only it's new books that I keep a watch for. After all, we live in the information age, right?

This time was especially sweet for me since...

Apple-watchers look to September 1 (Updated). That's when Apple is now expected to host a special event to introduce its new products for music and television, including a 99-cent TV show rental service.

With a convention center full of costume-clad fans, San Diego's annual Comic-Con is always a great opportunity to people-watch and take pictures. I dropped by Saturday to give the camera on my new iPhone 4 a good workout.