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it's Wednesday March 28th 2012 I'm Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded programmers who use Adobe Flash to make professional online games we'll have to start giving Adobe a piece of the profits adobe released a new version of its flash player and with it a new plan to make this browser plugin a source of revenue for the company now downloading a flash player is still free for consumers who want to watch videos or play a game rather this new cost is for game makers that use the advanced flash tools to design an online game and once that online game makes more than fifty thousand dollars it'll have to pay out nine percent of net revenue back to Adobe but not every game made with flash will have to pay there's no extra charge for developers to turn a flash game into a standalone smartphone app for the iOS or Android operating system the other day we reported a story where a consumer group in Australia was taken apple to court over the new iPad the complaint was that the new iPad is being sold as a 4G advice but it doesn't work with Australia's 4G network in fact the iPad 4g speed only works in the US and canada well now apple says it is willing to issue refunds to ipad buyers down under who feel they've been misled over that 4g label apple also said it would put up clarification online and in stores about the iPads 4G compatibility the leader of the Autobots optimus prime has lost the battle against computer maker isus hasbro the Toymaker behind the Transformers franchise filed a lawsuit against a sous last year when it launched a tablet called the transformer prime hasbro argued that a sous blended the transformers and optimus prime names the consumers would think the tablet is associated with the popular toy line and it would hurt the Transformers brand to further the argument the transformers cartoon series is called Transformers Prime and in the third film one of the transformers turned itself into a lenovo laptop so consumers might think a transformer can be tied to a computer line but a judge ruled that not to be the case and a sous can keep selling its transformer prime tablet President Barack Obama is pinning the president has added yet another social network to his campaign the popular virtual pinboard site Pinterest his profile has boards like Obama inspired recipes where you can learn his family's chili recipe the page also shares photos and videos of supporters the president on the campaign trail and Obama 2012 merchandise the new account has already picked up more than 4,600 followers no Republican candidates have a Pinterest site but governor Mitt Romney's wife Ann Romney did debut her own Pinterest page last month those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet.com and you just been loaded