The ill-fated demonstration, by Flash "platform evangelist" Ryan Stewart in front of a crowd of developers, will come as an embarrassment to Adobe, which is embroiled in a bitter war of words with Apple about the quality and stability of its Flash technology. Jeff Croft, a Seattle developer who attended the Flash Camp event last week, recounted the incident on his blog. He said that Stewart attempted to show off the mobile version of Flash Player 10.1 on his Google Nexus One by loading up the Eco Zoo website, which uses large amounts of Flash animation. 

Twitter user Paul Chambers has been found guilty of threatening to bomb Doncaster's Robin Hood Airport via the micro-blogging service - even though his tweet was meant to be a joke. And while #twitterjoketrial continues to gain traction, the real question is this: is it okay to make a joke about blowing up an airport on a public communications network?

Technology for the blind and visually impaired by UK company, TextMagic, has opened up the world of text messaging to all. Text messaging has become a key part of most people’s lives in the UK over the past ten years. It’s estimated that 85 per cent of the British population own a mobile phone, with a staggering 11 million text messages sent every hour. This is great news for helping the average person keep in touch with their friends and family, but less so for the more than two million blind and visually impaired people in the UK, for whom text messaging on a mobile phone can be difficult or impossible.

Apple's three iWork apps for iPad - Pages, Numbers and Keynote - may be generating $825,000 of revenues for the company a week.

That's according to analysis from Business Insider, which estimates that the three apps have already made more than $3 million in sales since launching last month.And this is in the US alone, don't forget. The site's analysis is based on the top paid iPad app generating around 7,500 downloads on Saturday and Sunday, and 2,500 downloads on weekdays.

The digital divide needs to be addressed as soon as possible to stop businesses in rural areas being left behind, according to a prominent business group in the West Midlands.David Collier, chairman of Business Voice West Midland's Rural Economy Group, a consortium of more than 20 industry bodies in the area, has asked Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards to meet with him to discuss the issue.Collier argued that European legislation now empowers Ofcom to put pressure on telecoms firms to provide broadband in hard to reach areas.

The merged UK arms of Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom will be called "everything, everywhere," and will allow 30 million customers to roam across the T-Mobile and Orange networks later this year. Both brands, which individually trail O2 and Vodafone, will be retained, Chief Executive Tom Alexander said after unveiling the new name on Tuesday. "Together, we are Britain's biggest communications company, with over 30 million customers," he told reporters. Alexander said both brands had different personalities, with Orange having a "premium element," whereas T-Mobile had a "straightforward, value-orientated appeal."

A new study confirms that face-to-face time spent with friends and family makes people happier than time spent socialising online on social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. The Happiness Barometer study was conducted across 16 countries, with 500 to 1,000 people surveyed per country. The countries in the survey were France, Italy, Spain, Britain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Russia, South Africa, China, Philippines, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and the United States. The study was based on the Coca-Cola Happiness Index, with the results showing that 40 per cent of those surveyed find catching up with their friends and family after work to be the happiest time of their day.

Online social networks used to be about making virtual connections with your friends; now they are about meeting up with them. Foursquare, a service that lets you share your whereabouts with others, has just passed a million members. More to the point, perhaps, it is being courted by big technology companies and venture capitalists. The New York-based start-up is expected to announce a funding deal shortly that could value it at $80 million (£53 million), or more. Yahoo! is reported to have made a $100 million offer for the company that the founders, Dennis Crowley, 33, and Naveen Selvadurai, 27, have rejected.

Myxer has released its latest BoomBox report for the month of April. The report looks at how female consumption habits compare to males in Myxer’s mobile community of more than 34m users. The study finds that, during April, women downloaded twice the amount of mobile entertainment content as men. Women downloaded 4.5m pieces of content, or 67 per cent of the total in April, compared to 2.2m downloads for men. Myxer says this large disparity in downloads is due to two factors: firstly, there are roughly 1.7 times as many females as males downloading content from Myxer on a monthly basis; and secondly, each female that visits downloads 17 per cent more content than the average male. 

Clive Longbottom, service director at industry analysts Quocirca, and Stuart Okin, former chief security officer at Microsoft UK who now works as managing director of security consultancy Comsec, said government IT projects were likely to proceed as normal for at least the next few months, until the impact of a likely Conservative spending review kicked in. Major projects like the ID card database and ContactPoint are likely to be ditched while spending restrictions are applied in other areas.