SEC proposes new rules for credit rating agencies

Regulators have proposed rules to stem conflicts of interest and provide more transparency for credit rating companies. They also proposed banning "flash orders," which give some traders a split-second edge in buying or selling stocks.

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Camcorders get flashier with flash memory

Some of them are hybrids and some are GPS-enabled. They're not cars, they're digital camcorders and the recent generation of them have almost as many options as automobiles have.

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Adobe extends Flash to TVs, Blu-ray players

Adobe Systems Inc. is extending its Flash platform to digital home entertainment devices like TV sets, Blu-ray players and set-top boxes.

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SF officials consider 'flash mob' crackdown

San Francisco officials say they're considering a crackdown on "flash mob" gatherings after some recent events left the city with a hefty bill.

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Adobe plans to give away Flash for mobile devices

Adobe Systems Inc. says it will license its video-enabling Flash software for free for mobile devices to help developers make mobile Internet experiences more closely resemble the experience on computers.

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New course sets ‘Lost’ back on track

As a show whose major selling points have always been mystery and confounded expectations, perhaps it's inevitable the eventual rescue implied in the premise of ABC's hit drama "Lost" would be turned on its ear.

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Verizon Wireless to Use Flash Technology

Verizon Wireless is deploying a version of the Web media technology known as "Flash" to boost the visual sparkle of graphics, animation and video delivered to its cell phones — and hopefully spur more customers to buy that content.

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Storage Components in More Visible Role

Bill Healy held the future in his pocket. The senior vice president of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. whipped out a tiny hard drive about the size of a Wheat Thin. The drive's label claimed a capacity of 1,000 gigabytes — more than 100 times greater than today's models that can hold 8,000 photos or 2,000 songs.

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The first Flash 10.1 desktop player beta has arrived, and AnandTech has put the new GPU-accelerated video playback to the test. And while the OS X version currently lacks graphics acceleration, Flash 10.1 still serves up improvements on the Mac.

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Adobe on Monday announced plans to roll out mobile versions of its Flash platform to several smartphones. Apple's popular iPhone, however, is gaining a lesser Flash experience.

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...a team of German scientists in Hamburg say they may have stumbled onto the discovery of transparent aluminium, according to a report in the scientific journal Nature Physics. More Articles

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A camera that takes photos with an invisible flash of infrared and ultraviolet light points to a smarter way to take photos in the dark. Dilip Krishnan and Rob Fergus at New York University created the camera in an attempt to do away with intrusive regular flashes.

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HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, a …

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Flash Fiction and Art - Three More Freaky Features From the AB Files

Flash fiction is a genre of writing that establishes a scene, has characters, a story, and an ending in a very small package. Human emotion is often used as the base for a flash story. Here are three more from my bottomless pit of flash... Wildfire

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DC Comics is undergoing something of a superhero renaissance of late, which is reflected in a host of terrific collections in my Teetering Tower of Revew Stuff:

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Today, Flash is everywhere. Animations, music, games, advertisements or even streaming presentations. Speaking of games, here's a list of site with the best flash games.

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Bill Watkins, the outspoken former chief executive of Seagate, wants to make a thinner iPod.

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Toshiba plans to begin shipping from the middle of this year flash memory chips that are more tightly packed than current models and will make possible even smaller gadgets.

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Two comic books released last week -- the first issue of The Flash: Rebirth (DC Comics) and the third issue of Marvel Comics' Secret Warriors (wittily subtitled "Nick Fury: Agent of Nothing") -- are sticking in my mind for the sheer quality of their writing.

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His return in last year's Final Crisis was just the latest and biggest in a recent spate of resurrections from both DC and Marvel that have restored long dead characters like Captain America's sidekick Bucky Barnes and the second Robin, Jason Todd.

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This is an interesting blog post from Flash Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow. Anyone who works with ActionScript is probably going to be fairly familiar with Lee - he runs GoToAndLearn, which is one of the best resources for aspiring developers.

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The Internet has brought us many joys. It's rewritten the rules of business and pleasure.

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Flash Fiction - Three Illustrated Stories from the AB Files

'Flash' fiction only has a few simple requirements. There must be at least one main character, a beginning, a plot, and an ending. And it has to be short. 'On The Ledge'

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it is time for — Best of CSS Design 2008 (a new list of 50 websites hand-picked from Best Web Gallery). This year, more designers are using the large background technique and utilizing Javascript frameworks (such as jQuery and MooTools) to enchance the user experience.

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Adobe has released the very first alpha version of a 64-bit Flash Player for Linux. This move is part of the company's broader plans to provide comprehensive 64-bit support for the widely-used browser plugin.

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Google's release of its Gmail Video service is noteworthy for several reasons. It is integrated into the Gmail console, adding voice and video services to the realtime console that is being built out around XMPP.

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A teenager has changed his name to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined.

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Software maker Adobe announced Thursday that it would drop many of the licensing requirements attached to its Flash technology, which is used to display video and audio content on the web. The new initiative, named the Open Screen Project, has five key components:

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"According to Microsoft's latest Silverlight announcement, Apple shows little to no interest in installing either Silverlight or Adobe Flash on its iPhones.

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Stop me if you've heard this one before: Adobe has confirmed that it's developing a version of Flash for the iPhone, and it's "a certainty" that it will be included in MobileSafari, according to Paul Boutin of Valleywag. Color me skeptical.

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At the Flash On The Beach (FOTB) conference in Brighton, Sr. Director of Engineering at Adobe Systems Paul Betlem, confirmed that Adobe is indeed developing a Flash Player for the iPhone. However, Apple calls the shots as to when it'll be available.

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Adobe has reportedly confirmed that its Flash technology is coming to Apple's iPhone.

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Why? Because, as SAI notes, while 40 million US visitors to NBCOlympics.com didn't have Silverlight installed, Adobe Flash is already installed on some 98 percent of Internet-connected computers. NBC's move didn't pay off last night.

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