App turns iPad into client for multitasking, Flash by Brooke Crothers A longtime Silicon Valley company says it can turn Apple's iPad into an X terminal, allowing it to run Linux, do true multitasking, and even run Flash-based apps. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based StarNet Communications announced this week that it can transform the iPad into a an X terminal--generically referred to as a dumb terminal because the data processing is done on the server not the client--for Linux, Unix, mainframe, and supercomputers. (See "Update" below for notes about the iPad's keyboard and initial browsing impressions.) StarNet says it can enable the iPad...