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Apple has announced that Safari 5.1.7 for OS X Lion and Safari 5.1.7 for OS X Snow Leopard will disable out-of-date versions of Adobe Flash Player, once installed. The reason behind Apple’s radical decision stems from the fact that “out-of-date versions of Adobe Flash Player do not include the latest sec... |
10 May 2012
08:15 GMT |
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Adobe has released an emergency Flash Player update that resolves a memory corruption vulnerability in the NetStream class that could reportedly lead to code execution on Macintosh, Linux, and Windows computers.In a security bulletin issued Friday, Adobe strongly advised users of Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.233 (and ... |
5 May 2012
10:40 GMT |
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The first public beta of Adobe’s Flash Player 11.3 is available for Macintosh computers with key benefits like texture streaming, a background updater, and more. Regarding the and-more, Adobe has “relaxed” driver gating hardware acceleration to 2006, and improved support for the Mac App Store (as i... |
12 April 2012
05:39 GMT |
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The feature list announced in this release for the upcoming stable version of Flash Player 11.3 is quite impressive. It includes full screen keyboard input for Flash Player, low latency audio support for streaming audio, as well as protected mode for Firefox (on Windows).
The current beta boasts important traits, to... |
6 April 2012
05:01 GMT |
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Adobe released the stable version for build 11.2 of their Flash Player. As far as the highlights are concerned, the new release announces premium features for gaming, and a collaboration with Unity Technologies. This allows Unity customers to publish web-based 3D games in Flash Player using the premium features for ... |
28 March 2012
03:28 GMT |
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Pwn2Own proved to be quite a boon for Google if only because it found itself forced to run its own similar competition, focusing on Chrome alone, to ensure that any exploits that are discovered are actually revealed to the Chrome team.
Pwnium, Google's competition, only had two entries, just like Pwn2Own in fac... |
16 March 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Adobe has unveiled release candidate versions of its flagship platform products, Flash Player and AIR, with Flash Player 11.2 RC and AIR 3.2 RC. Since AIR 3.2 is built on top of Flash Player, it comes with most or all of the improvements and new features included in the Flash plugin.
Flash Player 11.2 may be a relat... |
27 February 2012
07:14 GMT |
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Adobe has launched the release candidate for AIR 3.2, which introduces Stage3D hardware accelerated rendering for mobile devices running iOS and Android.
Besides enabling hardware accelerated cinematic, the Stage3D API also allows for high-performance 2D and 3D graphics, with games being able to run at 60 frames per... |
27 February 2012
02:37 GMT |
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Adobe is not done killing off the Flash Player. It announced that it would be dropping mobile efforts last year and now it's revealing that it will no longer be providing a Flash Player download for Linux.
The only way to get Flash on Linux beyond the upcoming Flash Player 11.2 is to use Google Chrome, which wi... |
22 February 2012
12:51 GMT |
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The stable version for Adobe Flash Player has been updated to build 11.1.102.62, which brings to the table a slew of security fixes. As expected, a new update for Google Chrome Stable was also released, available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame). As Adobe Flash plug-in is directly i... |
16 February 2012
03:39 GMT |
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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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Security-conscious Firefox users have something to be glad about, there is now a sandboxed Flash Player plugin for their browser. This new plugin isolates web content from the rest of the system, greatly limiting the potential danger of any malicious Flash file.
A similar feature had been available for Google Chrome... |
7 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Adobe rolled out a new beta for Flash Player and AIR products. This is the fifth and last beta before making available the final release.
Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.197 and AIR 3.2.0.1830 do not usher new features, but instead concentrate on bug fixing and improving performance and stability as well as device compa... |
1 February 2012
08:48 GMT |
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Adobe has released the fourth beta of the upcoming Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2. Both are minor updates to the existing runtime and platform, but they do come with new features and changes, not just bug-fixes and tweaks.
One of the big new features in Flash Player 11 and AIR 3.0 was Stage 3D, the new hardware-accel... |
20 January 2012
08:10 GMT |
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Adobe released a new beta for both Flash Player 11.2 and AIR Runtime 3.2. Besides bug fixing and smoothing out the edges, specific to beta development, the new builds also feature new stuff.
When possible, content using direct mode for Flash Player or “renderMode=direct” for AIR, Stage3D and StageVideo i... |
20 January 2012
04:09 GMT |
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Adobe released today the third beta for their Flash Player, incrementing the build number to 11.2.202.160.
There aren’t too many details about this release, but the one thing that’s for sure is that this beta provides access to the Flash Player 11.2 runtime for all supported desktop environments (Windows... |
22 December 2011
10:14 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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Unlike the previous versions of Flash and AIR, which were highly anticipated for introducing cinematic 2D and 3D hardware accelerated graphics of Stage 3D, the current releases focus mostly on plugging security holes and fixing bugs.
Security-wise, Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55 takes care of critical vulnerabilitie... |
11 November 2011
05:24 GMT |
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Adobe released the latest variant for Flash Player and Air. The 11.1, respectively the 3.1 versions come with crucial security updates that patch vulnerabilities which could have allowed an attacker to take control of an infected system.
The company recommends that all users who currently rely on the older versions ... |
11 November 2011
03:04 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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Three weeks after Adobe Flash Player 11 rolled out, the company releases the first beta for their cross-platform, browser-based application. The release is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Flash Player 11.2.202.18 brings to the table fully multi-threaded video decoding, which ... |
27 October 2011
05:09 GMT |
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Last week, Adobe boasted about Unreal Tournament 3 running on the latest version of its popular runtime, Flash Player 11. It was quite an impressive feat and a sign of things to come for web gaming.But don't think that it's going at it alone. Flash has some solid competition from the open standard WebGL. Wh... |
10 October 2011
12:08 GMT |
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Research in Motion has just announced the availability of an important software update for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.According to RIM, BlackBerry Tablet OS v1.07.3312 includes an updated version of Adobe Flash Player, which was released by Adobe on September 21.The latest version of Adobe Flash Player addresses ... |
7 October 2011
07:47 GMT |
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Epic Games, one of the leading studios in terms of graphics systems, thanks to its massively popular Unreal Engine 3, has presented a fully working version of the technology working inside Adobe's brand new Flash Player 11.Unreal Engine 3 is being used by a variety of games these days, ranging from shooters like... |
5 October 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Adobe is building up a lot of hype over the new 3D graphics capabilities of Flash 11, but it's probably for good reason. The latest update to the widely used platform makes powerful games running in the browser possible.
And it's not just a future promise, to show off Flash 11's capabilities, Adobe ... |
5 October 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Online games, meaning games that live on the web rather than games with an online component, are becoming increasingly popular. Zynga has hundreds of millions of players for its games, mostly on Facebook, for example.Most of these games are simple and aimed at casual gamers. As such, graphics don't matter as muc... |
4 October 2011
11:56 GMT |
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Adobe has announced the release of Flash Player 11, the latest big update to its popular platform. The headliner for this release is Adobe's hardware accelerated 3D technology, dubbed Stage 3D, which will enable developers to create much more powerful and great-looking games on Flash.
Another big addition is ... |
4 October 2011
04:11 GMT |
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Adobe is making some big moves with Flash, partly because of all the bashing it’s got from HTML5 fans and all of the people fed up with the slow and buggy Flash plugin.
Flash Player 11 promises to bring a hardware accelerated 3D graphics API which makes it possible for developers to build powerful and fast games u... |
22 September 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Adobe Systems Inc. have issued a new version of their popular Flash Player, informing users that updating is imperative as the platform is suffering from a number of flaws that may end up with hackers taking control of the affected system.Adobe categorizes the update as “critical”, and recommends that use... |
22 September 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Critical vulnerabilities identified in the 10.3.183.7 version of Flash Player and in the 10.3.186.6 of the one designed for Android made it necessary for Adobe to release new variants for each, to cover the weak links that might allow attackers to penetrate your device's protection.The early versions were exploi... |
22 September 2011
02:44 GMT |
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Adobe has made the release date of the upcoming AIR 3 platform available. AIR 3 is coming, along with Flash Player 11, early next month, most likely October 4.
Since it's based on Flash Player 11, AIR 3 boasts all of the new features included in Flash, notably the Stage 3D APIs which bring true hardware accel... |
21 September 2011
13:21 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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Adobe has announced the availability of the first release candidate of the upcoming Adobe AIR 3 runtime and the release candidate for the AIR 3 Software Development Kit.AIR 3 brings a number of new technologies and features and developers can get started updating their applications for the new platform version or exp... |
7 September 2011
09:34 GMT |
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Adobe Systems Inc. has launched major updates for its Flash Player and AIR platforms with some enhancements expected to greatly benefit Mac OS and iOS developers.
According to Adobe, this release includes new features as well as enhancements and bug fixes related to security, stability, performance, and device com... |
7 September 2011
07:04 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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The design arm of ALTEN Group, Calsoft Labs has just announced it has reached an agreement with Freescale to certify Adobe Flash Player on i.MX51 applications processor platform.
Under agreement, Calsoft Labs will be allowed to commercially distribute Adobe Flash Player 10.1 on Freescale's i.MX51 development... |
29 August 2011
10:45 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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A knowledge base article from Adobe describes a ton of issues that customers who upgrade to OS X Lion may experience with Adobe software, including Drive, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Illustrator, Lightroom, Photoshop and, of course, Flash Player.
Regarding the latter in particular (for which Apple is known to care ver... |
22 July 2011
05:18 GMT |
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Along with the first beta of the upcoming Adobe Flash Player 11, comes the beta for the AIR 3 runtime. AIR integrates Flash at its core, so it comes with all of the new features and functionality in Flash Player 11. One interesting feature in AIR 3 for developers is the ability of bundling the runtime with the app, r... |
14 July 2011
08:58 GMT |
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New versions of the popular Flash Player and AIR runtime are making their way towards Mac OS and iOS customers and developers with Adobe announcing Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 that support 64-bit architectures, and hardware acceleration respectively.
The Flash Player 11 desktop application now has native 64-bit supp... |
14 July 2011
06:31 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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Jason Kersey of the Google Chrome team is proud to confirm that the Stable channel has been updated to version 12.0.742.112 for all platforms, including Mac OS X, to include a new Flash plugin and security fixes.
Kersey confirms on the Google Chrome Releases blog that “This [Stable] release contains an updat... |
29 June 2011
04:59 GMT |
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The Developer channel for Google Chrome users is offering up a new build that contains several fixes to enhance the stability of the application, as well as the important Flash update incorporated in Stable builds earlier this week.Just yesterday, Softpedia reported that Google engineers burned the midnight oil to in... |
16 June 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Adobe AIR has just been updated to v2.7 and brings several bug fixes, enhanced performance, as well as new APIs for developers. Although there are several major differences between changes made for the end-users and developers, most of them are common and include bug fixes related to security, stability, performance... |
15 June 2011
08:42 GMT |
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A month after the Adobe Flash Player 10.3 plugin was made available, AIR 2.7 follows suit with the updated version being available on all major platforms, with the exception of Linux which is no longer supported. AIR 2.7 comes with plenty of new features, on both the mobile and the desktop front, on top of the new st... |
15 June 2011
08:20 GMT |
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A new software update is coming right up for RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook, namely the BlackBerry Tablet OS 1.0.5.2342, which includes a series of security fixes for the Adobe Flash Player.
The new software was released soon after Adobe warned on the existence of a series of security issues with the Adobe Flash... |
13 June 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Adobe has issued a warning to Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris and Android users about an important vulnerability that has been discovered recently.The security hole has been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.16 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.3.185.... |
8 June 2011
03:41 GMT |
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While some take their weekends off for some well-deserved peace and relaxation, Google developers keep themselves busy updating the Chrome channels with new Stable, Beta, and Dev builds.It is the case with Google’s latest update to Chrome, which now includes a new version of the Adobe Flash Player plugin with s... |
6 June 2011
04:45 GMT |
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