Adobe has laid out a roadmap for future development of Adobe Flash, and one of the things that caught my eye is that Flash Player 11.2 will be the last official standalone version of the browser plugin for Linux. While Adobe will continue to support Flash Player 11.2 for Linux with security updates for several […]
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Adobe Flash doesn’t support Android 4.0… yet
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 […]
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Adobe ceasing development of Flash Player for mobile
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 […]
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Adobe AIR is dropping support for desktop Linux: Do you care?
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 […]
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Flash Player 10.2 coming to Android tablets in “a few weeks”
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 […]
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Adobe Flash for the Motorola XOOM coming this spring
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 […]
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Adobe Flash Player 10.2 adds support for AMD Fusion, multiple displays
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 […]
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Adobe Flash Player 10.2 beta brings better hardware acceleration support
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 […]
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RIM shows off BlackBerry PlayBook at Adobe MAX conference
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 […]
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Adobe updates Flash Player for Mac with H.264 GPU decoding
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 […]