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HTML5 struck again. After Adobe announced the killing of Flash plug-ins for mobile use, Microsoft seems to be wavering about Silverlight as well in favor of HTML5. Could plug-ins be passe?

Without secure email or BlackBerry apps, PlayBook is just a bigger BlackBerry with none of the redeeming features.

Despite promises that Motorola's Xoom would include Flash support, it won't initially ship with the support. The reason isn't clear, but whatever the cause, it could devalue Flash and increase the use of HTML5 for web video instead.

Have you ever wanted to build, share, and use awesome Flash creations? The Website wonderfl lets you do just that (and unless you speak Japanese, then you may want to check out the fully Google translated version). After a substantially long period of drooling in front of my monitors, I found a couple awesome Flash scripts that you need to check out. If you're sitting at home bored out of your mind, then Wonderfl is definitely a site to check out.

This week, RIM showed off the power of its forthcoming PlayBook tablet's browser compared to the iPad, dissing the idea that dedicated apps are needed for many tasks along the way. With apps playing an increasingly important role in mobile computing, could this isolate RIM's table from business users and consumers even before the PlayBook ships?

Ditching Adobe Flash on your Apple MacBook Air can extend your battery life by two hours, according to reports. Chris Foresman at Ars Technica discovered battery life in the new MacBook Airs is 33 percent longer without the Flash plugin installed. According to his tests having Flash installed shaved two hours off the laptop's battery life.

Ten, twenty years ago bring your data from one place to another was fairly easy. Today, it's still easy but you've got some choices about how you want to do it - use the cloud or spend a few bucks on a flash drive that fits on your keyring?

Apple's well-publicized refusal to allow Adobe's Flash technology to be installed on its iOS mobile devices, including the iPhone and iPad, has led to speculation that Flash's days may be numbered as the king of online multimedia delivery. "Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of Web content," Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously stated in an open letter titled "Thoughts on Flash."

Adobe late Friday warned that attackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in the company's most widely-used software: Flash Player and Adobe Reader.

At Google's I/O conference we're starting to see HTML5 come into its own. One example is this rich-media edition of Sports Illustrated magazine. Check out the enclosed video.

Skyfire has released the beta version of its browser; the big selling feature is the ability to watch Flash video on your phone.

You think things are bad now between Apple and Adobe? Just wait until the lawsuit.