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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Tom Brewster is currently an associate editor at Forbes and an award-winning journalist who covers cyber security, surveillance, and privacy. Starting his career at ITPro as a staff writer and working up to a senior staff writer role, Tom has been covering the tech industry for more than ten years and is considered one of the leading journalists in his specialism.
He is a proud alum of the University of Sheffield where he secured an undergraduate degree in English Literature before undertaking a certification from General Assembly in web development.