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Just when I thought I was totally sick of it, this awesome USA election mashup comes along

I've always said, as a developer, Flash / Flex / Air are very attractive. What keeps me from targeting the Flash platform is that I *hate* using flash applications. I hate every site that has a Flash [loading....] screen. I hate how most of them don't implement standard copy/paste or even text highlighting.... let alone proper browser navigation like the back button and bookmarking. If you don't know what I mean, visit the website of any automaker. FTA: "Unfortunately, every one of GumGum’s images was served as an embeddable Flash widget, which made them both clunky and annoying for publishers, as the images couldn’t be resized or modified. The use of Flash allowed GumGum to include their ads with the images, and also made it harder for people to rip them off (though you could always just take a screenshot). PicApp, a similar image search and licensing platform, uses Flash as well and suffers from the same issues."

A pixel that uses a pair of mirrors to block or transmit light could lead to displays that are faster, brighter, and more power efficient than liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Researchers at Microsoft Research who published their novel pixel design in Nature Photonics say that their design is also simpler and easier to fabricate, which should make it cheaper.

There is more behind the replacement of Diane Green at VMware than what you're seeing in the press.

Agile 2008 is the premier conference of the Agile world. There are going to be almost 2000 participants and about 400 different sessions to attend. It means plenty of interesting conversations and a lot of activities to choose from. However, it also means that you have to make a choice between many different options. During the main part of the conference you have to choose between 40 to 50 different sessions. This part of the guide covers Wednesday August 6, 10:30 - 12:00 time slot.

I don't know why this keeps happening so often lately, but at least in the last few months, Microsoft kept losing various lawsuits and being forced to pay various amounts to other companies for patent infringements, but the hardest hits came from the European Comission. Anyway, fortunately for the Redmond giant, today is not about the EC. Unfortunately, the amount they have to pay is a bit more than just pocket money, because a federal judge just ordered them to pay Alcatel-Lucent no less than half a billion dollars!

Today, Opera Software announces record download figures. In the five days following its launch on June 12, 2008, Opera 9.5 achieved 4.7 million downloads. Opera also reports that the number of people using its browser has more than doubled since Opera 9.0 debuted in 2006. Each month more than 20 million people use Opera to access the Web from their computers and more than 12 million use Opera Mini each month on their mobile phones.

Help Mozilla burst open the world record of most software download in 24 hours. Download FireFox NOW! Here are WORKING LINKS for you!

Of course, $199 isn't the real price, from either side. But nobody cares. In the UK, the cheapest you'll manage is £99 ($194) for the 8GB handset, plus 18 months x £30 ($59) equals £639 ($1250).

Firefox 3 Download Day!

Yahoo! did its best to stymie a takeover by Microsoft, even when it offered $40 a share, because chief executive Jerry Yang let his heart rule his head.

The recent acquisitions of BEA and CodeGear alter the tools landscape, leaving less and less choice for developers.

The JavaOne 2008 technical session and labs are online at the SDN. Also, some of the BOFs are available at SlideShare.

Why aren't there more women in science and engineering? Controversial new research suggests: They just aren't interested.

According to TechCrunch, Microsoft has withdrawn Yahoo bid. But what looks like an end of the saga, may still have a couple of unfinished episodes [...]

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