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Will Apple be the end of Flash?

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.--The D: All Things Digital conference kicked off Tuesday night with an appearance by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. CNET's Ina Fried covered the event live, with additional coverage from Josh Lowensohn and Apple watcher Erica Ogg.

Barnes & Noble's free eReader app is here, and shockingly, it's probably the best ebook app on the iPad, for now. Better than Kindle, and better than iBooks.

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The a newly revealed patent hints at some of Apple’s plans for better iPhone-Facebook integration at the device level. We’ve heard rumblings about certain Facebook features being built directly into the iPhone OS and this newly-released patent — first uncovered by Patently Apple — illustrates just how this type of integration might work.

If you’ve got a jailbroken iPad, a copy of snes4iphone, and a WiiMote, have I got a doozy for you - check out the video.

He took a screenshot of what he saw after clicking the "deactivate my account" link on his account page - and it is pretty far-out.

With a few lines of code, it seems, at least one of the specs of the next iPhone is settled. According to video capture presets tucked away in the iPhone SDK, 720p recording is in the cards.

The iPad can't multi-task, it doesn't have Flash and it doesn't exactly do anything a laptop can't do. Yet somehow, Apple's latest gadget was able to see two successful launches in one month. HP, who was destined to give the iPad a run for its money, can't even manage a release. But why?

Almost 40 years ago, famed computer scientist Alan Kay published a research paper describing a device called the "Dynabook" that is eerily similar to what the iPad is today.