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Flash was once known primarily as the technology behind those niggling Web ads in the 1990s that gyrated and flickered on the screen. Today, it is a ubiquitous but behind-the-scenes Web format used to display Facebook applications, interactive ads and, most notably, the video on sites like YouTube and Hulu.com. Now Adobe Systems, which owns the technology and sells the tools to create and distribute it, wants to extend Flash’s reach even further.

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The arrest of Park Dae-sung in January and his ensuing trial on charges of spreading false data in public with a harmful intent - a crime punishable by as much as five years in prison - prompted debate about how much freedom of expression should be tolerated in cyberspace in this extensively wired country. Mr. Park gained an almost prophet-like status among many South Koreans after he correctly predicted the collapse of the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, the crash of the South Korean curr

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Aside from telling us that Europeans watch way less TV than Americans do (Nielsen has the average American watching 28 hours per week), the report trends that TV is becoming a two-way experience via PC, mobile, and set-top boxes, while 18-24 year olds regard the PC as the only TV screen. Other findings include that almost 50% of Europeans now have an internet connection and people spent almost nine hours per week using the web in 2008, up 27% from 2004. This is more time than they spent reading

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Several of the best-known Italian directors have turned their lenses to making short movies for the Internet. Some have been lured by commercial projects, others by the opportunity to tell poignant stories in a condensed form. And in a country with one of the lowest levels of Internet access in Europe, for many it is the first time they have flirted with the medium. For one project, the legendary filmmaker Ermanno Olmi joined with Gabriele Salvatores, an Oscar winner, and with the winner last y

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Ethan Nicholas and his wife, Nicole were having trouble making their mortgage payments. Medical bills from the birth of their younger son were piling up. Then he remembered reading about the guy who had made a quarter-million dollars in a hurry by writing a video game called Trism for the iPhone. Although he had years of programming experience, Mr. Nicholas had never built a game in Objective-C, the coding language of the iPhone. So he searched the internet for tips and informal guides, and use

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There are certainly plenty of people who think so. Both real-world and digital piracy have gathered plenty of headlines recently – a timely coincidence that has served to bring the differences between the two into sharp contrast. People are pointing out that the activities of digital rebels such as The Pirate Bay couldn't be further from the raw violence of Somali pirates who are locked in a string of bloody battles off the east African coast.

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Mr. Inman, a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur, calls this digital amalgam a "Vook" and the fledgling company he has created with that name just might represent a possible future for the beleaguered book industry. There has been a flurry of optimism and activity around the once-derided idea that people might read books on a digital screen. Just this year, new electronic reading devices have emerged from Amazon, Samsung and Fujitsu, while mobile phones like iPhone from Apple have flowered s

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The company maintains that web versions of a Word or Excel will never match the functionality and responsiveness that software installed on one’s own machine provides. Granted, Microsoft’s largest competitor, Google, has not yet marched up to the bulwarks guarding Microsoft Office and blown a gaping hole into its adversary’s complacency. Google Apps, its Office-like suite, contains an uneven bunch of services. But the best online word processor, however, may be the one from a tiny company, Zoho,

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