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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.

Ahoy, shipmates! There'll be no more of this LimeWire free download shenanigans aboard this fine vessel. Yes, P2P 'pirates' are singing a sad sea shanty: it seems that the LimeWire file-sharing service has finally been silenced by the RIAA and the usual chorus of record companies. The long-running legal opus reached a crescendo in a New York court, as the judge told the Lime Company to knock it off, presto. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers join in and clap their hands. Not to mention Fun With Travel Safe Activities...

This pilot fish is attending a database vendor's technology sales pitch seminar. One of the key features the sales guy is demoing: Web-based collaboration. But something's not working.

The Facebook IPO will be official later today, we're told. The rumor-mill sets the price per share at around $45, assuming the $100 billion valuation being bandied about. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it'll be (NYSE:FB) or (NASDAQ:FB). Not to mention: 20 Rejected Monopoly Chance Cards...

When Apple chose the KHTML engine for its Safari Browser in in 2003 over the more popular Gecko engine that powers Firefox, a lot of people were surprised. Firefox was way more popular than the Konquerer browser and had a lot more open source developers on line. Well now that decision is starting to pay some dividends - in amazing speed.

[As hilarious as some of the comments were, it's time to move on.]
Updated: Sony Computer Entertainment (SNE) (6758) regrets to inform PS3 users that it's been unable to repair its PlayStation Network (PSN) and Qriocity platforms -- at least, not so far. It now seems that users' personal data have been compromised, which "may" include credit card details. They've both been down for over a week and it could be another week until it's back. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers point the fingers of blame. Not to mention the Easter Peeps experiment: How long do marshmallow chicks last in an Arizona summer?..

After three years as a loyal iPhone user, I'm thinking about making the switch to a phone running Google Android. I'm looking for something new, Android is looking good nowadays, and Apple's creepy corporate culture is wearing me down.

Wake up, webmasters: your authentication cookies are vulnerable to Firesheep. That is unless you TLS-encrypt everywhere, implementing HTTPS for every page. A new Firefox addon called Firesheep is demonstrating the mysterious problem of cookie-hijacking. The extension allowing script kiddies to sidejack your Facebook and Twitter sessions and impersonate you. So beware of browsing like a sheep, for fear of catching fire... or something. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers phear public Wi-Fi. Not to mention It's Not A Bug...

Ridiculous rumor is now web truthiness: WWN says Facebook is really shutting down on March 15, 2011 -- source is CEO Mark Zuckerberg, no less. Stop and think, people!
Is Facebook shutting down on March 15, like the Weekly World News says it will? Does Mark Zuckerberg just want his life back? In IT Blogwatch, laughing bloggers browse the reading matter at the Safeway checkout. Not to mention Google Demo Slam: Epic Docs Animation...

SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. -- Everybody's talking about tethering, which is the use of a cell phone to connect a laptop to the Internet. Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Palm phones have done it for years. Soon, iPhone and Android-based G1 phones will, too. But tethering is slow, awkward and lame. We have to do it for one reason only: AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and other carriers are greedy, and have no vision.

For all the fuss about freedom, and all the Google-driven posturing at its developer event last week, Apple's boss seems set to be proven right in his criticism of Adobe's ailing multimedia standard, Flash.

At this county agency, one pilot fish serves as the point of contact between a trio of Web developers and the users who need to make changes to the agency's Web site.

"My job is to keep them from being overwhelmed by all the requests," says fish. "Users give me the information by e-mail, and I usually enhance the request with the Web page address and some direction on where on the page we want the information to appear."

So when one user wants a Web form to be updated, fish is the one who gets the request. In this case, it's a form that lets citizens volunteer for particular projects; after the citizen fills in the online form, it generates an e-mail to the proper person at the agency.

The user's request: The form must have one phone number.

Users from around the U.S. and the world are all reporting that Google, and its related services, are moving at snail-like speed.

As I wrote about in my previous blog, IE8 hosed my system shortly after I installed it. I've got it up and running again, and found out the source of the crash. Read on for details.

Wondering what you'll love (or hate) about IE8? I've put the beta through its paces, and I've got the goods for you. I've found some nifty new features, and one that spells annoyance. And, of course, I've got screenshots as well.