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snydeq writes 'Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister questions whether the move to port Flash to the iPhone isn't a last-ditch effort on Adobe's part to remain relevant in the quickly evolving smartphone market. By allowing developers to compile existing Flash apps into native binaries, Adobe believes it has found a way around Apple's requirements that no non-Apple API interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an app, a clause that has also prevented Sun from porting JVM to the iPhone. The resulting apps will be completely stand-alone, with no runtimes and no Flash Player required — if Apple lets Adobe get away with it, no small feat given how protective Apple has been about its app market. But as much as Apple has at stake here, Adobe may actually have more, McAllister writes. 'Already the idea of using Web languages and tools to build smartphone applications is taking hold. Palm has built an entire smartphone platform around the idea. Apple supports the use of Web technologies

Fabulous. Out of this world. Too often superlatives are thrown around in sport with meaningless alacrity.

Kaizer Chiefs return to the scene of their darkest hour and turn fortunes around with a win at Ajax - and Kaizer Jnr scores too.

If the climate is not quite right, birds will up and move rather than stick around and sweat it out, according to a new study. The findings reveal that most of the bird species studied in California's Sierra Nevada mountains have adjusted to climate change over the last century by moving to sites with the temperature and precipitation conditions they favored.

Jews around the world should welcome the UN fact-finding mission's recent investigation into the IDF's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, Judge Richard Goldstone, who headed the team, said Sunday.

Rescue teams from around the world have arrived in Padang city to help earthquake victims in Indonesia's West Sumatra province, but hope is fading that they'll find survivors under the rubble in remote areas.

NEW YORK - The United Nations has been deploying peacekeepers to trouble spots around the world for more than 60 years.The U.N. Security Council authorizes deployment of peacekeepers to countries torn by conflict to help create conditions for lasting peace. Today, more than 90,000 men and women from more than 100 countries wear the “blue helmet” [...]

An article on the influences of media in todays world and the world of the future.Contributor: Jim KellyPublished: Oct 04, 2009

Olympic silver medalist and current U.S. all-around champion Bridget Sloan has been selected for the women's team that will compete at this month's World Gymnastics Championships in London.

SALINAS, Calif. - While author John Steinbeck was alive, this rural town reviled its most famous native son. Townspeople hated his unflattering accounts of Salinas and its treatment of migrant workers. They burned his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath, on Main Street. They shuddered when he nosed around the Salinas Valley to get material for East of Eden, his best-selling novel about the region.