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I think the story’s actually bigger HTML and Flash. It’s not HTML vs. Flash – they’ve been co-existing for over a decade,” he said. “The more important question now is about the freedom of choice on the Web, and I think that’s really important for the industry and certainly you should choose whatever technologies you [...]

The New York Times sat down recently with Andy Rubin to talk about everything Android. He extolled the virtues of open source software and predicted that eventually Android would take the smartphone market share lead. He also promised that full support for Adobe’s Flash standard was coming in the next version of Android. Sometimes being [...]

PCmag.com is out with a nice retrospective on this disaster. Here is a taste: The most shocking revelation was uncovered by Ed Bott at ZDNet: McAfee has admitted to its customers that it followed shoddy quality assurance procedures in this matter. Specifically, the release was not tested on Windows XP SP3, the configuration on which it borked [...]

Yesterday was a big day for social-oversharing site Blippy, which lets members automatically post their purchases to the Internet. The company announced $11.2 million in funding and was profiled in The New York Times. Overnight, at least one Internet power user figured out a way to search for Blippy members’ credit card numbers on Google. A fairly [...]