Our coverage of the Pwn2Own contest has received a lot of attention, so I thought it would make sense to go straight to the source of the Adobe Flash exploit to get some first-hand accounts of what went down.

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On April 7, Google took the wraps off of more than many had expected: Not just a hosted database platform, but an entire hosted Web app platform, known as Google App Engine. I’ve heard rumors that Microsoft is readying a competitive hosted application platform.

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After a number of users reported endless-reboot problems in February after installing one of the prerequisites for Windows Service Pack (SP) 1, Microsoft pulled automatic distribution of it. As of April 8, however, Microsoft will resume pushing out that prerequisite.

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After dangling some vague promises about its plans to create seamless social and device “meshes,” Microsoft is set to deliver more details about its mesh-syncrhonization strategy — and deliver its first Live Mesh beta to external testers — later this month.

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That didn’t take long. Two days after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a three-week acquisition ultimatum to Yahoo’s board, Yahoo answered with its own letter.

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