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Twitter Heats Up With Brazilian Malware

Criminals placed a profile on Twitter linked to a video that delivers multiple Trojans seeking banking information from the machines they infect.

No Indexing Guarantee From Google Flash Crawls

Just because Google says they pry out the text content from Flash files and make them searchable may mean less than webmasters think.

Adobe Helps Google, Yahoo Search Flash Files

Site publishers who love Flash for its presentation but hate its near-invisibility to search crawlers should appreciate a recent announcement from Adobe.

"Skip Intro" Button Appears In Google's Search Results

A site's flash intro may be appealing the first time you see it.  The second, third, and four hundredth times, not so much.  So what appears to be a new "skip intro" button from Google is an interesting gift.

Metaliq Acquires FlashForward

The Flashforward Conference and Film Festival is a historic event as the longest-running and largest gathering of Flash designers and developers in the world. It was developed nine years ago and has been managed by lynda.com events and Lynda Weinman since 2005.

Chinese Olympics Site Accused Of Game Thefts

Online Flash games appearing on the Beijing 2008 site may have been appropriated from at least one other designer after one game maker found his had been pirated.

Flash! Yahoo Updates Maps API To AS3

The developers spoke, and Yahoo answered. Support for ActionScript 3 arrived for the Yahoo Maps API today.

New Version of Yahoo Browser-Based Music Player

In keeping with the “open media” vision described by Yahoo Music exec Ian Rogers in his latest call to arms (which I wrote about yesterday), Yahoo launched a second iteration of its browser-based music player — this one allowing anyone to add a line of Javascript and have a Yahoo-branded player pop up wherever there’s an mp3 link.

Orkut Has A Worm

Google's recent addition of an Orkut feature for writing messages containing HTML code allowed someone to send a pesky worm through the network.

Adobe Announces Flash Player 9 Update

Adobe today announced the immediate availability of Flash Player 9 Update 3(version number 9.0.115.0), previously code named Moviestar.