Adobe has announced that it will soon be ending support for Flash Player on mobile devices running Android and BlackBerry Tablet OS, instead shifting its mobile efforts toward HTML5. So it probably shouldn’t be a huge surprise that the first device to ship with Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich doesn’t currently support Adobe Flash Player. Still, for a long…

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Adobe’s Flash Player has been the de facto standard for online video and games for a number of years… but the plugin is losing ground as new web technologies including HTML5 become more common. Now ZDNet reports that Adobe is pulling the plug on Flash Player for mobile devices… which means we might not ever see a Flash Player 12…

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Adobe has announced plans to drop support for desktop Linux in the next version of the Adobe AIR platform, instead focusing its resources on Windows, Mac, and mobile platforms such as Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS. AIR is a runtime that allows developers to write apps using the same tools used for Adobe Flash web apps, but AIR apps…

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Yesterday news broke that the Motorola XOOM wouldn’t just be the first tablet to ship with Android 3.0 Honeycomb… it would also be the first Honeycomb tablet to ship with Adobe Flash, because Adobe hasn’t put the final touches on its Flash Player app for the platform just yet. But while Verizon’s advertising for the XOOM says Flash support is…

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One of the key advantages Android has over iOS is support for Adobe Flash. But it looks like you might have to wait until this spring to get that advantage on tablets running Google Android 3.0. Verizon Wireless has posted a product page for the Motorola XOOM tablet, and it state that Flash support is “expected spring 2011.” The Motorola…

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Adobe has launched Flash Player 10.2 for Windows, Mac, and Linux and the new version of Flash features improved hardware acceleration, improved font rendering, and support for full-screen video on computers with multiple monitors. That multiple display feature doesn’t means video stretches across all your monitors. Instead, it means you can finally watch video in full-screen mode on one display…

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Adobe has launched a public beta of Flash Player 10.2. The biggest change is support for Adobe’s new Stage Video API, which improves support for hardware video acceleration. Translation: If you’ve got a supported video card, you’ll be able to watch HD Flash video without straining your CPU, which means you’ll be able to watch HD video and do other…

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This morning Adobe announced that Adobe AIR 2.5 would work on a range of devices including TVs, Android smartphones, and tablets like the BlackBerry PlayBook. Meanwhile RIM launched the SDK for developing AIR apps for the tablet today, as well as a BlackBerry PlayBook simulator. So it probably shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that RIM’s Mike Lazaridis took the…

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Adobe has added support for GPU video decoding to the latest version of Flash Player 10.1 for Mac. That means Mac users no longer have to grab a beta version of Adobe Flash in order to see the benefits of GPU acceleration. The upshot is that Mac users should notice that it takes significantly less CPU power to decode Flash…

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Intel’s AppUp Center is an app store for netbooks, tablets, and other devices with Intel Atom processors. The idea is to provide users with a one-stop shop where users can purchase apps or download free apps that they know will work on their hardware. Up until recently, developers could write apps in C or C++. This week Adobe and Intel…

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Apple has no plans to allow Adobe Flash to run on the iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Ever. But the hardware on these devices is more than capable of running the mobile version of Flash developed for Google Android. Recently a hacker figured out how to port Adobe Flash to the iPad, and today the folks at Engadget have posted…

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Adobe has released Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The company has been pushing out release candidates for the last few months, but now the Flash plugin is officially ready for prime time. Among the biggest changes in Flash Player 10.1 are support for hardware acceleration for H.264 video content. That means if you’re using the Windows version…

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