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Google Chrome for Android comes with plenty of features. It's got the WebKit engine from the desktop Chrome and the V8 JavaScript engine as well, optimized for ARM processors. One thing that it hasn't got though is support for Adobe Flash.
And it's never going to get it either, since Adobe made it ver... |
8 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Since no important public figure died and all the prizes and outrageous videos offered in scams were used up, cybercriminals that rely on Facebook schemes to spread their malicious campaigns turned to news about the United States attacking Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Sophos experts found a large number of statuses on Fac... |
6 February 2012
04:40 GMT |
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Adobe has just updated its AIR application for Android devices with support for Ice Cream Sandwich mobile platform. AIR Android 3.1.0.556 also includes several performance improvements and bug fixes.
However, there are no major features included in this release, instead Adobe only added some enhancements, Ice ... |
21 December 2011
02:31 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is gearing up for the release of a new Android-based handset on its airwaves, though this is not any smartphone, but the very first Ice Cream Sandwich handset in the world, the Galaxy Nexus. The new Google phone was already made official at Verizon, though no specific info on w... |
19 November 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Adobe has provided more details and an announcement which should be of great importance to Flex developers. The company had said that it plans to move the project to an open source outfit and has now unveiled that it is working with the Apache Software Foundation for this. In a few updates to the initial announcemen... |
17 November 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Adobe is not the only one trying to get developers to ditch Flash and take up HTML5. Surprisingly, Google is too. Last summer it released a simple but interesting tool, Swiffy, which converted Flash animations into HTML5 ones.Work on the tool is still undergoing, but Google has now released an extension for Flash Pro... |
16 November 2011
18:01 GMT |
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The mobile Flash Player plugin is not the only casualty of Adobe's new found love for HTML5. Another one seems to be Adobe Flex, the SDK designed to enabled developers to create cross-platform internet applications using Flash technology.While Adobe didn't say much in the initial announcement concerning mob... |
15 November 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Adobe officials are becoming vocal on the discontinuation of Flash for mobile platforms with one lead developer admitting that it was all Apple’s fault. He also admits that HTML5 is proving to be the right choice for mobile web.Mike Chambers, lead product manager for Flash, has made a blog entry which reveals t... |
14 November 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Adobe's decision to kill the mobile Flash Player browser plugin has generated a lot of debate. The discussion, unfortunately and predictably, tends to gravitate around 'flashy' statements such as "Apple has won," or "Steve Jobs was right" or "Flash is dead."The reality is a bit more complex than that. ... |
12 November 2011
09:41 GMT |
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We knew mobile Flash's end would come, but it didn't seem that it would come so soon. Adobe has now released Flash Player 11.1 and AIR 3.1. They're minor updates and there's not much to say about them in particular, what is notable though is that this is the very last Flash Player for mobile."As w... |
11 November 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Mobile Flash is dead, Adobe made it clear. But this doesn't mean Flash in general is dead, far from it. Adobe just cut its loses short in a battle where even winning meant owning maybe half the market and instead focused on Flash's key strengths.Flash is powerful technology, there's no denying that. Th... |
9 November 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Adobe has made it official, it's dropping the mobile Flash Player. The upcoming Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook will be the last release, there will only be security fixes after that.That sounds like a huge move and it is. But it's not as tragic as it may seem, from any point of view.O... |
9 November 2011
10:40 GMT |
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Some very interesting and somewhat unexpected news are coming from Adobe soon and it's not that they're firing even more people. Apparently, Adobe has given up on Flash on mobile, at least as a browser plugin, and is finally throwing in the towel.It plans to discontinue any further development on the Flash ... |
9 November 2011
05:40 GMT |
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The first actual first person shooter that uses the new Adobe Flash Player 11 technology to render quality visuals in a web browser has been presented by developer Neo-Pangea, in the form of Dead Coats, an outlandish title that sees U.S. founding father Benjamin Frankling use a lightening-musket to kill English soldi... |
27 October 2011
07:12 GMT |
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Crytek, the studio behind critically acclaimed games like Crysis 1 and its sequel, has confirmed that its impressive CryEngine 3 technology may soon get a truly cross-platform solution, after seeing that its rival, Epic Games, presented a version of its Unreal Engine 3 running in a web browser through Adobe Flash tec... |
7 October 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Adobe has announced the release date for the upcoming Flash Player 11. The runtime is now available as a release candidate and Adobe has said that a final version is landing on October 4. Flash Player 11 comes with quite some interesting new features and capabilities. On top of the list is the first hardware acceler... |
21 September 2011
03:46 GMT |
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A couple of months back, Google unveiled an interesting little experiment, a tool for converting Flash animation into HTML5. It wasn't the only one trying to do it, even Adobe is working on something similar, but Google's tool, Swiffy, managed to get quite a lot of attention.Swiffy was incorporated into Goo... |
9 September 2011
12:41 GMT |
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The upcoming Adobe Flash Player 11 has reached release candidate stage. This means that it's almost ready for every day use and, assuming that no issues pop up during this stage, which is unlikely, this is the version that gets pushed to the hundreds of millions of people using Flash on their computers. Adobe F... |
7 September 2011
05:54 GMT |
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Chinese handset manufacturer Huawei focuses aggressively on building low- and mid-end Android smartphone, which is the main reason it is not a major player in the market, yet.According to the guys over at LandOfDroid, Huawei has just released a high-end device that should take over as the company's flagship smar... |
31 August 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Adobe has released the second beta for the upcoming Flash Player 11. At this stage, the team is focusing on stability and bug fixes as all of the main features have already been included.As such, if you're already running Flash Player 11 Beta 1, there shouldn't be any noticeable changes, but the plugin shou... |
10 August 2011
04:15 GMT |
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Adobe has been claiming that it loves HTML5 just as much as it does Flash, a technology it owns. So far though, while there have been a few exceptions, it hasn't had much to back up that claim.
With the release of Adobe Edge, an animation design tool which relies on HTLM5, CSS, JavaScript and so on, the comp... |
1 August 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Adobe has released the first beta of its upcoming Adobe Flash Player 11, a major release bringing several big features. Flash Player 11 Beta introduces Stage 3D, the new, hardware accelerated 3D graphics API for Flash and is also the first release with native support for 64-bit environments.
Some of the technologi... |
14 July 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Adobe has recently updated Flash to version 10.3.181.26 which brings a few nifty enhancements, including Acoustic Echo Cancellation, Auto-Update notification for Mac OS, and more - all making their way inside Chrome 12.0.742.100 Stable, whose code has been altered to include the new Flash version.Available for all su... |
15 June 2011
07:30 GMT |
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Not everyone is a fan of Google Chrome bundling the Adobe Flash Player plugin with the browser, but there are some good practical reasons for this as well as benefits for users who would have installed the plugin anyway. The latest addition to the list is the possibility of deleting Flash "Local Shared Objects" from ... |
27 April 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Only a few weeks after the first glimpse of Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Beta, there is a fresh new one for curios users and developers to test. Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Beta 2 doesn't bring that many new features, the only new thing seems to be integration with the privacy controls in Internet Explorer 8. But it'... |
1 April 2011
09:20 GMT |
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Adobe has introduced an interesting new tool which converts Flash content into HTML5. Don't get too excited, it's not the answer to everyone's problems as it may seem, since it only works for animations, banners and things of that nature, but it's a start and a glimpse of a future where Flash and ... |
8 March 2011
11:24 GMT |
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Adobe Flash Player 10.2 has been out a month now, but the team has been working on the future release in the meantime, obviously. The initial results of that work are now available to the public with the release of the first Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Beta. While it's only a beta for now, Adobe plans to make the fi... |
8 March 2011
06:43 GMT |
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Wallaby, a tool used to convert Adobe Flash FLA files into HTML to have them running optimally on iOS devices, is now available for download.The software, available as a 32-bit Macintosh and Windows application, allows developers to drag and drop their Flash content into the app’s interface to have it instantly... |
8 March 2011
06:31 GMT |
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Even though Adobe hasn't made Flash Player 10.2 available for mobile devices yet, the company promises that version 10.3 will be released as soon as beta testing ends.
Adobe has recently made available a beta release of Flash Player 10.3 for desktop operating systems only, but it appears the final version wil... |
8 March 2011
04:41 GMT |
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Flash 10.2 has been out less than a month now and Adobe is already releasing a fresher build. However, this latest release, though labeled as Adobe Flash 11.0, is very much in the experimental phase. But if you're developer or just curious about the latest technologies in Flash Player, the new Adobe AIR and Flas... |
1 March 2011
12:20 GMT |
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Adobe has announced that the recently launched Flash Player 10.2 will be available on a myriad of mobile devices soon. At the same time, Adobe is also touting the adoption of the AIR platform. The company says it expects 200 million mobile devices to be able to run AIR apps by the end of the year."We are thrilled to ... |
14 February 2011
10:12 GMT |
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Flash Player 10.2 has been released. The latest update to the very popular platform focuses on video, with hardware acceleration, HD-playback and multi-monitor viewing taking center stage. Flash Player 10.2 is available on all major desktop platforms today as well as bundled with the latest Google Chrome updates."We&... |
9 February 2011
05:48 GMT |
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The Skyfire web browser developed by the company with the same name is now available for iPad. Skyfire not only allows users to view Flash videos on iOS devices, but also provides integration with popular social features for a better internet experience, according to the developers.
Skyfire Labs’ technology ... |
23 December 2010
03:17 GMT |
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Adobe recently debuted the Flash Player 10.2 Beta 2. Among the new features to expect in the next major update to the popular plugin is broader support for hardware acceleration, especially for video content. All of this was known, but Adobe's John Nack is touting the performance boost this provides claiming tha... |
16 December 2010
05:37 GMT |
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There is not a soul on this planet that hasn’t heard of Apple’s negative stance towards Adobe’s Flash platform. Many should also be aware that, starting this October, the Mac maker is shipping its computers Flash-free, because it reportedly overloads the CPU, while draining MacBook batteries faster.... |
18 November 2010
09:10 GMT |
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In an attempt to grab as many customers that are yet to decide on what brand their next tablet will be, RIM has posted a comparison video between its upcoming tablet, the PlayBook, and Apple's iPad (running iOS 3.2.2). Both tablets have been subjected to a full set of tests meant to show the Web browsing experie... |
17 November 2010
03:56 GMT |
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A detailed analysis of Apple’s security patches included in the Mac OS X 10.6.5 update issued yesterday suggests that the Mac maker had good reason to phase out Flash from its computers starting with the introduction of two new MacBook Air models last month.AppleInsider has broken down the 131 vulnerabilities k... |
11 November 2010
06:03 GMT |
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The people at Skyfire who developed an application that brings all of the Internet’s Flash videos to the iPhone are announcing that those looking to grab the app should follow the company on Twitter, or frend them on Facebook, to know when the time is right to access the App Store.Skyfire on TwitterSkyfire on F... |
6 November 2010
08:59 GMT |
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Reports emerged last month saying Apple was killing one technology after another with its new MacBook Air computers, among which Flash, and Java were mentioned. Now we may have found the main reason why Apple does not pre-install Adobe’s Flash Player plugin on new Macs - battery life.In an official statement is... |
5 November 2010
06:28 GMT |
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Avid Softpedia readers may remember that Skyfire, a Mountain View, California startup company, was anxiously awaiting its Flash-converting app to go live in the Apple App Store. It did, but only for a few hours. The reason? Demand for the app was so high that it overwhelmed their servers.For those who haven’t b... |
4 November 2010
10:54 GMT |
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A Mountain View, California startup called Skyfire has confirmed plans to launch an iPhone browser that supports videos in Adobe’s Flash format. The application will cost $2.99 and will be available for immediate download beginning Thursday, this week, Fortune reports.Skyfire will reportedly be available for do... |
2 November 2010
11:38 GMT |
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Those who’ve had some hands-on with Apple’s new MacBook Air can confirm that, although the system ships with the latest version of Snow Leopard pre-installed, it lacks the Flash Player plugin. It is also being reported that Apple is ceasing future development of their version of Java for the Mac.Following... |
22 October 2010
08:29 GMT |
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With the rise of HTML5, Adobe's Flash has been positioned as the antagonist of the open standard. Increasingly, HTML5 is used to serve online videos though the matter is far from resolved. Adobe has now released a widget which enables web developers to add HTML5 video support to their sites which falls back to F... |
22 October 2010
06:09 GMT |
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Adobe has finally made the announcement a lot of Linux users have been waiting for, a 64-bit version of the Adobe Flash Player is again available. Not only that, it's a significant improvement over previous releases. Linux users generally like to be on the cutting edge. That's part of the reason why they�... |
16 September 2010
06:56 GMT |
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Adobe Flash may be taking a lot of heat and it's not exactly everyone's favorite application. Warranted or not, Flash content on the web is ubiquitous and that's not about to change any time soon. One thing that is changing though is support for 64-bit software. 64-bit versions of the three major platf... |
16 September 2010
06:32 GMT |
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Just as announced last week, Skyfire submitted their mobile browser to the Apple App Store, and announced the move officially via their blog. According to the company, the solution comes with support for Flash videos playback, while also complying to all the guidelines Apple set on the HTML5 open-video standards on ... |
2 September 2010
06:31 GMT |
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The guys over the Droid-life blog just got their hands on an Adobe Air for Android build. According to the aforementioned blog, this version is in a very early stage of development, so it might be buggy for some devices. Adobe AIR is a key component of the Adobe Flash Platform, which provides a consistent and flexibl... |
5 July 2010
11:32 GMT |
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Adobe is not in the best position it has ever been, as its massively popular Flash platform is getting attacked from all sides. Apple is leading the charge, and the weapon it's using against it is HTML5. The proposed web standard can do many of the things Flash does, offering developers an open alternative. This... |
12 April 2010
06:39 GMT |
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The rumors yesterday tuned out to be accurate, Google has just announced a deeper integration of the Adobe Flash Player in Chrome. Specifically, the latest development builds now come bundled with the Flash Player, though the feature is not enabled by default. Google says this path is more convenient for users, who d... |
31 March 2010
03:57 GMT |
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend seems to be the common thinking at Google and Adobe. An interesting rumor has popped up recently saying that the two companies are about to announce, later today, a deeper partnership and perhaps a deeper integration of Flash with Google Chrome, though what exactly that implies is a... |
30 March 2010
05:49 GMT |
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