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A beta version of Flash for mobile devices is on the way according to Stephen Shankland on CNET.

It will be available for a number of platforms but, notably, not Apple's mobile devices (iOS). It addresses some of the issues of moving to a non-mouse environment and deals with power issues. Some developers will still need rewriting to adopt it.

I'm sure Apple's argument will be "If you need to rewrite anyway, why not move to HTML5 which is an open standard." 

Ian Paul writes for PC World about the looming battle. It's a well-written and accurate article with a soupcon of humor.

Chris Matyszczyk writes at CNET, "Is Google far too much in love with engineering?" This is a topic that I seem to keep running into these days -- most recently, I looked at a proposal for a new website that was all about the details -- a checklist of what was there, a description of the appearance, and a list of technologies to be used (could we please settle the Flash issue?).