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No Flash plugin for Windows 8 on ARM: Another nail in the Flash coffin?

Brad Linder — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:12:30 +0000

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 ceasing development of Flash Player for mobile

Brad Linder — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:46:23 +0000

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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Isostick is a USB flash drive your computer thinks is an optical drive

Lee — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:15:27 +0000

At first blush, the idea of the Isostick might not seem that amazing. In simplest terms, it's a USB flash drive that your computer detects as an optical drive. But who needs something like that? Nowadays, just about every computer on the market can boot to a USB device, be it a flash drive or an external hard drive. This...

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Adobe Flash for the Motorola XOOM coming this spring

Brad Linder — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:32:38 +0000

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 updates Flash Player for Mac with H.264 GPU decoding

Brad Linder — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:21:32 +0000

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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Adobe Flash comes to the iPad (unofficially) – You can install it now

Brad Linder — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:36:09 +0000

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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SD Association unveils faster UHS-I spec for SDHC and SDXC cards

Lee — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:15:06 +0000

Wouldn't it be nice if there was some way to tell whether certain USB flash drives or memory cards were faster than others just by looking at them? The SD association (the folks who oversee the specs for SD cards) certainly think so, and they're rolling out a little change to help clear things up. The new UHS-I specification and...

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The battle for web video continues: NBC, Time Warner stick with Flash

Brad Linder — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:14:44 +0000

Apple doesn't like Adobe Flash, which is why you can't use it on the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Google and Adobe have made a big deal out of the fact that you can run Flash on Google Android 2.2. But you know what else uses Flash? Almost every computer on the market today -- and almost every web site...

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Litl Webbook to support HD Flash video

Brad Linder — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:13:12 +0000

The folks behind the Litl Webbook plan to launch an update that will support Adobe Flash Player 10.1 with hardware video acceleration. In other words, you'll be able to watch HD Flash video on the Litle Webbook. But the company is also introducing an SDK that will allow developers to write Flash-based channels for the notebook. The Litl Webbook is...

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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 RC4 with support for Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics

Brad Linder — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:25:02 +0000

Adobe has just pushed out the 4th release candidate for Adobe Flash Player 10.1. The new version is supposed to enable 1080p HD Flash video playback on computers with Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics, which is just about every 11 to 12 inch thin and light laptop with an Intel CULV processor released in the last year or so. That includes...

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ARM: It ain’t the chips that are delaying the launch of smartbooks

Brad Linder — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:01:26 +0000

It's been almost a year since chip-maker Qualcomm coined the term "smartbook" to describe a new kind of device that would be a cross between a smartphone and a netbook. Like smartphones, these so-called smartbooks would have low power ARM-based processors, long battery life, and always-connected access to the internet through 3G wireless networks. But they'd have reasonably large screens...

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Velocity Micro Cruz Tablet with Android 2.1, Adobe Flash

Brad Linder — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:01:54 +0000

Apple may or may not eventually succeed in pushing the world toward a future where Adobe Flash isn't the most popular format for web video and casual web-based video games like Farmville.But we don't live in Apple's world just yet, and while a number of companies have developed apps that will stream live video to the iPad sans Flash, a...

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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 hits the release candidate phase

Brad Linder — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:38:22 +0000

Adobe has pushed out the release candidate for Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Linux, Mac, and Solaris. That means that unless any major issues are discovered, this is the full version of Flash Player 10.1 and the beta testing period is pretty much over. The reason this matters to the low power computing community is because Flash Player 10.1 features...

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The HP slate: Imagine an iPad that plays Flash, runs Windows 7

Brad Linder — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:09:29 +0000

Looking for an alternative to the iPad that looks enough like Apple's tablet to fool your friends into thinking you have one -- until they see you start tapping on a start menu or playing Flash video? Then it looks like the upcoming HP slate might be the way to go. HP has released a promotional video that markets the...

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Adobe Flash 10.1 Beta 3 now supports Atom Z-series netbooks

Brad Linder — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:27:03 +0000

Adobe has just released Flash Player 10.1 beta 3. And for netbook owners, one of the most exciting updates is that there's hardware acceleration support for some netbooks. Basically, if you've got a netbook with an Intel Atom Z5xx series processor and integrated GMA 500 graphics, you should be able to watch 720p, and maybe even 1080p HD Flash video...

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