Test Center review: This latest incarnation of what is now Adobe’s Flex product is no longer plagued by the limited features and hearty ticket that it once was, James Borck finds. “Today, Flex is an affordable solution for developing RIAs (rich Internet applications) with an approachable toolkit and reliable delivery mechanism.” Of course, Adobe still faces some obstacles. Read the full review. Newsmakers: Computer science Ph.D. and renowned expert in ‘nonclassical’ computer forensics Dr. Neal Krawetz speaks with senior editor Paul Roberts in this interview about how he ties together evidence to pin down online criminals, and his claim that he may have uncovered the author of Agobot, Phatbot and rBot malware. The news beat: Microsoft’s blogging tool, Windows Live Writer, enters beta testing. Hewlett-Packard becomes the first major hardware vendor to support Debian Linux, which it says will run on ProLiant and HP BladeSystem servers as well as a thin client. And hackers are trying to sneak into unpatched PCs via the flaw in Windows that generated a warning from the U.S. government. Software Development