Adobe has stopped developing Flash Player for Google Android and BlackBerry Tablet OS. The new Google Chrome web browser for Android doesn’t support the current version of Flash. Apple has never supported Flash for the iPhone or iPad. And now it looks like Microsoft is following suit: Internet Explorer for Windows 8 on ARM won’t support Flash. In fact, if you…

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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 may be pulling the plug on development of Flash Player for mobile devices, but Research in Motion isn’t ready to give up on Flash just yet. One of the key selling points for RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook is the tablet’s support for Adobe Flash content as well as native apps built using Adobe AIR. While Adobe has said that Flash…

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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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Motorola is pushing out the first software update for its XOOM tablet. The good news is that the update prepares the Android tablet to run Adobe Flash Player 10.2. The bad news is that Flash Player 10.2 still isn’t available for Android 3.0 Honeycomb, so you’ll have to wait a little while longer to actually start watching Flash video or…

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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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The upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook has a dual core processor and what appear to be pretty powerful multitasking capabilities. But how does it handle everyday tasks like viewing web pages with heavy Flash or HTML5 features? Research in Motion has posted a new video of the PlayBook browser in action and it looks like it can handle Facebook Flash games, Facebook…

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The first Cr-48 Google Chrome notebooks began arriving today, and while by all accounts the hardware is well designed and the operating system is simple to use and fast to boot, there’s one glaring problem: Adobe Flash support seems to stink at the moment. Like the latest versions of the Google Chrome web browser, Chrome OS comes with Adobe Flash…

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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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