Google’s I/O conference has been underway this week and the latest out of that shindig is that Google is expanding its core search capabilities into applications including cross-language information retrieval and book-searching. Microsoft on Friday is slated to demo integration between its rich Internet application tool, Silverlight, and the Ruby on Rails Web framework. The software giant will also show IronRuby, a version of Ruby for .Net. Microsoft linking Silverlight, Ruby on Rails. Symantec, meanwhile, makes the third switch to its analysis of the captured exploit that it originally thought made Adobe’s product vulnerable to ongoing attacks from Chinese servers; time this Symantec says the current Flash Player is safe from attack. SAP ends low-price support but expands ERP maintenance and support for third-party systems.Security appliance vendor Barracuda makes a bid to buy Sourcefire, maker of ClamAV and Snort, but thus far it appears the offer was not well-received by Sourcefire’s board.And in Geek week in review, Cringe reports that Comcast got struck by digital delinquents who redirected traffic for several hours to a vandalized site. Former Hewlett-Packard chairman Patty Dunn, meanwhile, disproved that silly old notion that crime doesn’t pay as she walked away untouched from the company’s notorious spying scandal. Technology Industry