The death of Adobe Flash was a long time coming. While the 25-year-old technology was instrumental in bringing animation, games, and interactive content to the web when it was still young, it was always sort of a security nightmare, with Adobe struggling to issue bug fixes faster than vulnerabilities were discovered and exploited. But now […]
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5 Comments on Lilbits: Facebook faces antitrust suits, Google plans big changes for Chrome, and Adobe Flash is finally (almost) dead
Lilbits: Facebook faces antitrust suits, Google plans big changes for Chrome, and Adobe Flash is finally (almost) dead
5 Comments on Lilbits: Facebook faces antitrust suits, Google plans big changes for Chrome, and Adobe Flash is finally (almost) deadFacebook wasn’t the first social network – remember MySpace and Friendster? And it’s not exactly the last one standing. Twitter’s still a thing. But Facebook is the biggest, most influential social network in the US, at least… and according to new lawsuits filed by the FTC and 48 attorneys general, Facebook abused its market dominance […]
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Firefox picks up HTTPS-only mode and pinch-to-zoom, will lose Adobe Flash support soon
Firefox 83 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Among other things, the latest version of the open source web browser should bring a 15-percent boost in page load performance, and an 8-percent cut in memory usage. There’s also support for an HTTPS-only model that will alert you if you try to visit a […]
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Adobe will put Flash out of its misery at the end of 2020
Adobe Flash has been on its deathbed for years. The company pulled the plug on Flash Player for mobile in 2012 and announced in 2017 that it would eventually kill flash for desktop operating systems as well. Now the end is nigh. Adobe has announced that Flash Player will officially reach the end of life […]
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Toshiba begins sampling UFS 3.0 storage (faster storage for smartphones)
Smartphone processors keep getting faster, the cameras keep getting better, and the batteries are… still there. But there’s another piece of hardware that can affect performance of smartphones and other mobile devices: the storage technology. Early phones shipped with eMMC flash storage (and some cheaper models still do). More recently phone makers started adopting UFS […]
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Lexar storage will live on… at least in name
Micron announced in June that it would be killing off its Lexar line of storage products including USB flash drives, S cards, and related products. But it looks like new products with the Lexar name may be on the way. Chinese flash storage company Longsys has acquired the Lexar trademark and branding rights from Micron. […]
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Adobe will finally kill Flash in 2020
Flash has been declared dead numerous times over the years. It’s all very reminiscent of Monty Python’s “bring out your dead” scene in The Holy Grail. In reality, Flash, like the old man, is not quite dead… but Adobe has finally clarified when they’ll give it a whack over the head. On their Flash and […]
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Samsung’s UFS removable memory cards are 5x faster than microSD cards
MicroSD cards are tiny, convenient removable storage cards that can be used with some cameras, tablets, smartphones, and other devices. But they’re not exactly super-speedy. Now Samsung has unveiled a next-gen removable memory card that’s about 5 times faster. In fact, Samsung’s new UFS (Universal Flash Storage) cards offer read/write speeds that are on par […]
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Is it time for Adobe Flash to die?
There was a time when Adobe Flash was a key tool for providing multimedia content on the internet. If you wanted to watch videos, listen to music, play games, or view interactive content you needed to install Adobe’s browser add-on. But these days there are other technologies including HTML5 which support many of the same […]
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Samsung introduces faster storage for smartphones (like the Samsung Galaxy S6)
Most current smartphones use a type of flash storage called eMMC. But Samsung has started mass producing a new embedded memory solution which the company says offers faster speeds without consuming any more power. Samsung says phones with its new UFS 2.0 memory will offer quicker boot times, faster file copying, and improved multitasking, among […]