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Adobe’s MAX 2008 conference kicks off Monday and the shindig’s theme is pretty simple: Extend its Flash platform into every software nook and cranny that it can by enlisting developers everywhere.

Adobe’s goal of reaching everyone with Flash isn’t new, but the company every year makes more progress reaching its target–except for Apple’s iPhone of course.

The software maker provides the clearest public confirmation yet of when its ship target is for the successor to Windows Vista.

Cisco Systems reported fiscal first quarter earnings of $2.2 billion, or 37 cents a share, on revenue of $10.3 billion.

Excluding charges and other items, Cisco reported earnings of $2.5 billion, or 42 cents a share. Both sets of Cisco earnings (statement) included a tax gain of 3 cents a share.

Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine has kept her seat in Maine.

There was a point when Democrats thought Collins was a good target with Maine being very blue.

But Collins ran a great campaign and is returning to the Senate.

Collins is one of the few centrist Republicans in Congress.

Her return is a good thing.

Verizon’s third quarter results were in line with Wall Street estimates courtesy of a solid performance in the telecom giant’s wireless business.

But wireless churn was up as the company did take a hit due to the popularity of the iPhone.

General Motors expects to meet or exceed its target for a 20% reduction in salaried employment costs, but a letter to executives Thursday signaled that a worsening sales outlook will bring additional cost and staffing reductions.

The Discovery “Cannon Challenge” for the iPhone Your retirement portfolio just sank another $50,000, in one hour.  Time to take out your non-line-of-sight artillery and blast a target off a mountain top and figure out how credit default swaps work, which were supposed to guard against risks in mortgage markets, have wiped out so much [...]

Ed Miliband commits the UK government to cutting carbon emissions by 80% - up from a 60% target - by 2050.