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6:00 AM ET, October 5, 2009

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Tricia Duryee / paidContent:
Adobe Extends Full Flash To Just About Every Phone But The iPhone  —  Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) has secured relationships will Research In Motion, Windows Mobile, Palm (NSDQ: PALM) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to roll out full Flash capabilities to the various smartphone platforms.
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Bill Coughran / The Official Google Blog:
Teaming up with Adobe and the Open Screen Project  —  At Google, we've been working closely with the folks at Adobe for years.  Some of our most exciting projects such as YouTube, Android, Google Site Search, Google Chrome and even Google web search require close integration with Adobe's technologies.
Softpedia News:
Google Half-Heartedly Joins Adobe's Open Screen Project  —  Android will get full Flash support by next year  —  Along with the unveiling of the new Flash Player 10.1, which will be coming out early next year, Google has announced it will be joining Adobe's Open Screen Project …
Adobe:
RIM joins Open Screen Project
Discussion: T3.com News
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Marketplace is live on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones  —  Did you pick up an AT&T Pure over the weekend?  Yeah, then you might want to spin up Windows Marketplace on your new Windows Mobile 6.5 handset.  It's live and dancing right now a full day before any of this was supposed to launch — not that we're complaining.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Ad Networks On Edge As Facebook Shuts Down Developers  —  A number of the large ad networks have been reaching out to developers to let them know that they essentially have no idea what's going on.  Facebook has taken the latest actions without giving developers any form of early notification and many ad networks feel left in the dark.
Discussion: broadstuff and the Econsultancy blog, Thanks:atul
Om Malik / GigaOM:
T-Mobile to Launch Samsung's Google Phone  —  Samsung Behold II, the first an Android phone sold by the South Korean handset giant, is coming to the U.S. via T-Mobile USA, the two companies announced today.  The new device will carry Samsung's TouchWiz user interface and will work with T-Mobile's high-speed 3G network.
Discussion: PC World, T3.com News, Gizmodo and IntoMobile, Thanks:atul
Roy Furchgott / New York Times:
What Do All These Phone Apps Do?  Mostly Marketing  —  When Stanley Works, the hand tool maker, offered an iPhone App that turned the phone into a level, its goal was to create young loyalists to the Stanley brand.  —  The company does not know if the iPhone app drove a single sale or fostered any brand loyalty.
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Working on Tablet Since At Least 2003  —  The New York Times recaps many of the rumors and expectations about the upcoming Apple Tablet, but also introduces a few original sources of information about the tablet project within Apple.  —  According to former Apple engineer Joshua A. Strickland …
Discussion: New York Times and 9 to 5 Mac
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Matt Cutts: How Google Deals With Web Spam  —  It's up to Matt Cutts and his team at Google to keep search results as free as possible from Web spam, those pages full of Viagra ads or even malware.  A 10-year veteran of the company, he got into this online underworld after working …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Popularity of Pirated TV-Shows Still Rising  —  In the US streaming sites such as Hulu offer ‘legal’ platforms to watch TV-shows online.  However, in the rest of the world people have to wait for weeks or months until they can watch US TV-shows.  —  Most TV-show downloads come from overseas …
Adam DuVander / ProgrammableWeb:
New API Proves Trends Are Trending  —  What is everyone talking about or searching for right now?  Knowing the terms that are trending at this moment is like knowing the news.  With a new API your apps can be just as aware.  Lets Be Trends provides programmatic access to the most popular keywords …
Erik Qualman / Search Engine Watch:
Is Google a Social Media Company?  —  Perhaps Google's stiffest competition in the immediate future isn't Bing and Yahoo, but rather it's the likes of Wikipedia, Twitter, and Facebook.  Just as we no longer search for the news (24 of the top 25 newspapers have shown record declines in circulation) …
 
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Federal Register Makes Itself More Web-Friendly
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Rick Callahan / Associated Press:
States pushing own e-waste recycling laws
Edwin Chan / Reuters:
T-Mobile USA kicks off corporate Wi-Fi push
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
GoalBit: P2P Streaming Goes Open Source
Discussion: GigaOM
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Bug by Bug, Google Fixes a New Idea
Mika Salmi / paidContent:
Time To Change The Lens: Media As A Service
Discussion: Software as Services, Thanks:atul
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Skype: People want total control over mobile phone apps
 Earlier Items: 
Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:
Kevin Rose Accidentally Announces Digg's Upcoming iPhone App
Discussion: arnteriksen.com, Mashable! and digg.com
Dave / Master of 500 Hats:
Gordon Gekko 2.0: Flipping is GOOD. …
Discussion: Why does everything suck?, Thanks:atul
Boy Genius Report:
Best Buy Mobile's Holiday Playbook: Upcoming Android launches …
Andrew Alexander / Washington Post:
Print-Era Shackles for a Twitter World?
Discussion: blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Thanks:atul
 

 
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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