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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.

Call it the rumor that will never die, but it's back to walk among us, with Bloomberg telling us Apple has flicked the switch and iPad 3 manufacturing has already begun, with the product set to ship in March.

Apple is in accelerated lock-down as it attempts to identify the best possible apps to demonstrate on the iPad 3 the company plans to launch at a special event next month.

It now seems inevitable that Google and Apple will face each other in the courts. The great irony is that Apple will be fighting for open standards for the smartphone industry, while Google appears set on a course to make FRAND deals a whole lot less friendly. So much for the 'open' OS...

There's so much focus on the iPad 2.0 right now, which we now know will likely be faster, slimmer, lighter, host cameras and boast better graphics with a better screen than the existing model, but what do we know about the iPhone 5? What features we can look forward to in the next-gen Apple smartphone when it ships in summer "at the earliest".

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.

This help desk pilot fish has just been introduced to a newly hired support tech who's starting his first day on the job. But after chatting with the new guy for five minutes, fish gets a call from a secretary -- who says that part of her computer has been stolen.

Apple has sold two million iPads in under 60-days, despite lack of support for Flash. Some form of Flash support is close, as indie developers continue to explore new ways to get Flash-based content onto the iPad -- without help from Apple, or Adobe. Read on...

The Apple rumor machine kicks into high gear this weekend, as veteran iWebsite, iLounge, claims a well-sourced rumor: that the iPad 3 ships in March while the iPhone 5 will boast a metal back and LTE support. Let the debate begin.

The Microsoft (MSFT) Windows 8 release date will be 2012, according to Steve Ballmer; he even used that actual name. And it's going to get its first official demo next week, we hear. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers analyze a surprisingly complex story. Not to mention: FreakyFonts: Inspired by C64, Amiga, and classic arcade games...

[Updated: More analysis of Steve Jobs' 'uniquely intimidating' management style] STEVE JOBS RESIGNS, yell all the headlines this morning. It's believed the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO stepped down due to pancreatic health problems. Is he a visionary or a copycat? An epic manager or a hard taskmaster? And what about his replacement, Tim Cook? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers can find no other story to blog. Not to mention: The Dark Side of Disney...

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is said to be readying the shipment of Lion, a/k/a Mac OS X 10.7. The release date looks to be tomorrow or Thursday, synchronized with the expected appearance of the new MacBook Air and Mac Mini. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers read the runes. Not to mention: Rube Goldberg, eh?..

In a surprising change, Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu was changing its default interface from GNOME to its netbook-oriented Unity interface

The iPad 3 ships in weeks and iPhone 5 already on plan, now Apple has extended its litigation against former ally Samsung, just days after laying the smackdown against Motorola's attempt to subvert industry standards in that company's Google-sponsored war against the iPhone. Apple wants Samsung's Galaxy Nexus banned in the USA.

Keep your ear to the ground and you hear all kinds of Apple [AAPL] related rumors. While you should take most of these with a huge pinch of salt, many hint at what's coming next from the Cupertino company. So what should you expect from Apple next year?