It’s Saturday, and that means there’s a crippling dearth of interesting news as all the boffins and spinners have headed home for the week. As all goes quiet on the western front, we’ll take a step back and look at what this past week brought us. Without further ado, paste your peepers to our Saturday recap:

• Adobe’s CEO says that the firm is working closely with Apple to develop a functional Flash runtime for the iPhone. Is it true? Carefully-worded fabrication? There are arguments for both sides.
• Using the new D0 stepping, Intel is preparing to release the Core i7 975 EE. While the pricepoint for this chip approaches $ridiculous, the more important question is: What can this new stepping offer us? The good news is that it’s also being released to the Core i7 920 very shortly.
• Microsoft announced that there will be six separate editions of Windows 7. Thankfully only two of those editions are primed for OEM/retail focus.
• Cox Communications, one of the US’ largest cable ISPs, recently announced that it planned to trial congestion management techniques in the Kansas and Arkansas markets. One of our readers reported that the congestion management may be erring into protocol blocking territory.
• Google is enabling Chrome support for extensions in the spring.
• Microsoft has put security concerns at ease by announcing that Windows 7’s UAC functionality will prompt the user when any change is made to it, regardless of the defined alert level.
• On the Netbook front, Intel has released details of an updated Atom platform capable of 720p playback. On the NVIDIA side of the coin, their robust Ion platform has moved a few steps closer to retail availability.