Badmash is bored. Don’t get us wrong. We love us some Bollywood. We couldn’t help but getting addicted to MTV Roadies. We even admit to curling up with an episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati every once in a while.

Keyur Patel, of Velocity Interactive Group, likes giving birth to new companies. His latest kid is a Badmash, a newly formed pune-based (India) Studio. Sandeep Sood of DoubtSourcing, who thinks brown people are funny, is the head writer at Badmash.

The goal of Silverlight is to get into the game, not to add anything new of value. If you look at the feature set on a pure technology basis, Silverlight has 80% less features and 98% less compatibility than Adobe Flash Player.

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Adobe announced the upcoming release of Flash Media Server 3 at IBC in Amsterdam. The next version will offer significant performance gains as well as a new enhanced (and encrypted) RTMP protocol to support new content protection features. Pricing has not been made available at this stage.

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If you are like me and have slowly had enough of Vista then you may have purchased a Mac by now. I run Windows XP in Parallels on my Mac, largely due to the fact that Flash Media Server (FMS) is not available for Mac. Of course you can develop your apps on a Mac but you’d have to use a remote FMS server for testing. Not anymore.

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