If a flyer onVerizon Wireless’ websiteis accurate, the Motorola XOOM Android Honeycomb tablet could ship without Adobe Flash support with compatibility coming in “Spring 2011”. Engadgetspotted the small print on a XOOM promotional flyer, which lists some of the Motorola tablet’s impressive specifications and asks visitors to enter their email address to sign up for future updates on the device. There are numerous reasons why Flash won’t be available at launch, the most likely being that the current Flash builds are not optimised for use on the Android Honeycomb operating system....

It wasannouncedtoday by Motorola Mobility Canada that the XOOM (WiFi) tablet will be hitting Canadian retailer shelves at the beginning of April. Motorola’s XOOM is powered by Android 3.0 and sports a 10.1” HD widescreen display, two cameras (rear-facing 5MP, front-facing 2MP), 1 GHZ dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and unlike the iPad, it supports Adobe Flash. Considering that we’re hearing loads of rumours about iPad 2 stockouts, it will be interesting to see whether this will affect XOOM sales....

Suggestions that there could be alengthy waitfor Motorola XOOM owners to get Adobe’s Flash 10.2 on their tablets have been calmed after the software company announced it would make it available for download “within a few weeks of Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) devices becoming available”. Adobe notes in ablog postthat Flash Player 10.2 will be pre-installed on some tablets – we assume any tablet that runs anything but Honeycomb will fall into this category – with optimisation for Honeycomb accounting for the delay on tablets including the Motorola XOOM....

Movable Inkis a technology that I’ve wanted to write about for 6 month’s time. The under the radar startup turns your email into a marketing platform that personalizes live content to the recipient’s location, current time and social context. It’s vision is to make emails as rich and realtime as the web. For example, if you’ve ever received an email from me, you’ll notice a “DonorsChoose” insertion under my signature with the opportunity to donate to a charity and the amount the charity has raised so far....

Move over Farout, Farfarout is now the most distant object in our solar system Crossing paths with Neptune — like Aquaman Every 10 centuries, Farfarout completes another orbit of the Sun, while crossing the orbit of Neptune several times. These close encounters would likely result in occasional interactions between Farfarout and Neptune. Astronomers believe these close encounters might explain the highly-elliptical orbit of this distant world. Farfarout comes as close as 27 AUs from theSun, and travels out as far as 175 times as far from the Sun as the Earth....