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Google on Monday announced that it will soon stop indexing Flash content for its search engine, effectively throwing an invisibility cloak over that content.

"Google Search will stop supporting Flash later this year," Dong-Hwi Lee, an engineering manager, wrote in a post to the company's Webmaster Central blog. "In Web pages that contain Flash content, Google Search will ignore the Flash content. [And] Google Search will stop indexing standalone .swf files."

The .swf extension marks Flash animation files.

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After several years of proofs of concept testing, followed by pilot programs, enterprises deploying blockchain should turn their focus toward integrating the distributed ledger technology (DLT) with legacy data systems and making sure they can communicate with other external blockchains.

That advice is part of Forrester Research's 2020 Predictions, which highlight several upcoming challenges for the nascent electronic ledger technology.

In the world of enterprise blockchain, the shift from irrational exuberance to realistic assessment is almost complete, Forrester said.

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Applemooted decision to develop its own smart home products is an inevitable next step for a company that knows the kind of business growth it achieved with iPhone is unlikely to be repeated.

Chasing growth

Think about it like this: Smartphones have connected the planet:

• There are around 3 billion users in the world today.
• Around a third of those devices are iPhones.
• Global population sits at around 7.7 billion.

This means that across most of the planet, if you don&t have a smartphone you probably know someone who does.It also means the rate of growth is slowing as post-adoption replacement purchasing habits take hold.

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