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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With early builds of Windows  already in the hands of some testers, it was just a matter of time before we started to see leaked images of the new operating system. The folks at Within Windows have posted some of the first pictures of a new user interface designed for tablets, phones, and other small touch-based computers. Microsoft isn’t replacing…

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Microsoft has launched Internet Explorer 9, a new faster, more standards-compliant version of its web browser. The browser is tightly integrated with Windows… assuming you’re running Windows Vista or Windows 7. Internet Explorer 9 isn’t available for Windows XP. The browser gets a high (but not perfect) score on the Acid3 web standards test and fares pretty well in other…

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I’ve mentioned a few times that there’s one major problem with the HP Mini-Note’s display: It’s almost too sharp. While the 7 inch 800 x 480 pixel display on the Eee PC is a bit too small to hold full web pages or some applications, the Mini-Note has the opposite problem. It’s 1280 x 768 display is amazingly crisp. But…

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