Week in Review: Fighting, Flash and farewell to floppy
This week in IT, Apple and Adobe went for each other, HP bought Palm and we bid farewell to the floppy disk.


Apple and Adobe exchange insults
The war of words between Adobe and Apple went into overdrive this week, with Good old Google
Adobe lovers will be pleased to hear Google, which was this week Best of the rest
Not only did Gordon Brown make the PR gaff of the election campaign with bigotgate, a Labour candidate
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