Tag archive: adobe

Announced in an official blog post earlier today, Adobe pushed out Flash Player version 11.1 for Android devices. The new software supports version 4.0 of the Android operating system otherwise known as Ice Cream Sandwich. The update for Flash Player is available on the Android Market and owners of the brand new Samsung Galaxy Nexus can download the update immediately. Adobe also announced the upcoming release of Adobe AIR 3.1, software that… Read More

As 'Occupy' protesters around the country fight on the streets to eliminate the supremacy of the richest 1 percent of Americans, a new 'Occupy' movement has begun online. This time, however, the enemy is something else entirely: Adobe Flash. As CNN reports, a group of developers calling themselves 'Occupy Flash' are taking steps to end the use of Flash once and for all. In a “manifesto” posted to… Read More

Didn’t have time to keep up with every ripple in the technology pond this week? We’ve got you covered. Here are some of the most noteworthy stories from the last week. Adobe kills Flash for mobile We first reported on this bombshell announcement on Wednesday, when we heard that Adobe would no longer be developing Flash for mobile devices, instead focusing its efforts on HTML5. Our own Geoff Duncan took a hard look at the decision, how the… Read More

Speaking at an event for analysts and investors, Logitech CEO Guerrino De Luca characterized his company's ill-fated bet on Google TV—in the form of the Logitech Revue set-top box—as a tremendous error that combined with missteps in the EMEA region cost the company some $100 million in operating profit. De Luca characterized the Revue launch as a “mistake of implementation of a gigantic nature,” and doesn't plan to take… Read More

Yesterday Adobe finally admitted defeat and gave up on Flash for mobile. The news came to the delight of Apple fanboys everywhere, and to the frustration of jaded Adobe developers. Flash plugins for smartphones and tablets (with the exception of the PlayBook, interestingly enough) are out, and in their place HTML 5 has been fully ushered in. But mobile isn’t the only product market affected by the decision. Adobe says it will also drop Flash for… Read More

Since the Steve Jobs biography came out, we've heard a lot about his “reality distortion field,” or how he would make crazy things happen by getting everyone to believe it. RIM may have a reality distortion field of its own right now, but it's not a good one. Despite Adobe vocally dropping support for Flash mobile and crowning HTML5 a victor over its own product, RIM is determined to keep developing Flash for its… Read More

After more than four years of tit-for-tat sniping and surprising vehemence, Adobe has finally thrown in the towel: Adobe is abandoning Flash on mobile devices, choosing instead to focus on HTML5 tools for mobile content. For the time being, Adobe says it plans to continue to support Flash on the desktop—and it will offer security updates for mobile Flash on Android and PlayBook for an unspecified amount of time. But the message is clear: Flash… Read More

Some technology flaws don't go away—they just get a Band-Aid applied to them that eventually falls off. Adobe says it is working on a fix to an Adobe Flash vulnerability that enables attackers to trick Flash users into turning on their microphone and/or webcams, potentially enabling attackers to visually spy on them, overhear and record conversations, and obtain sensitive information. However, unlike most zero-day Flash exploits,… Read More

Last week, those of us not fortunate enough to attend Adobe's 2011 MAX conference got a first look at a truly impressive, early-stage Photoshop feature that allows users to “deblur” photographs quickly and easily. The unauthorized video, shot by an attendee, showed Adobe's Jue Wang demonstrating the feature, which drew “ooooohs” and “aaaaaahhhhs” from the crowd. We contacted Adobe to get some more information about the “unblur”… Read More

Once again, Adobe is about to change the wold of photography forever. During the company's MAX 2011 conference, which took place last week in Los Angeles, California, Adobe gave a sneak peak of a new Photoshop filter that will allow users to unblur their shaky photographs. The new feature, which is still in development, was revealed to the public in a YouTube video posted to Reddit.com. In the video, a presenter (whose name we cannot… Read More

Currently available to download and install, Abode announced the launch of version 11 of Flash and version 3.0 of Air. With these new versions of the software, Adobe has tied hardware acceleration into the programming allowing for more robust applications. With this upgrade, Adobe now supports 3D gaming as well as Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound. Adobe claims that Flash 11 is capable of up to 1,000 times faster rendering over previous… Read More

Adobe has formally announced it will be shipping Adobe Flash Player 11 and Adobe Air 3 in early October. Adobe touts the new versions as a “game console for the Web,” with graphics performance up to 1,000 times faster than Flash Player 10 and Adobe Air 2, thanks to full hardware-accelerated rendering for both 2D and 3D graphics and 64-bit support on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. However, while Adobe Flash remains common on PCs,… Read More

Announced in an official blog post earlier this week, Microsoft explained why the company wouldn't be supporting plugins within the Metro version of Internet Explorer 10. Designed to improve security and reliability as well as preserve precious battery life, Microsoft believes leaving out support for plugins like Adobe Flash should ultimately offer the best experience for the consumer. Microsoft claims to have studied nearly 100,000… Read More

Even before all the patent lawsuits the original mobile phone dispute is Apple vs. Adobe over Flash. Apple has made a point out of not supporting flash on its iOS devices, much to Adobe’s chagrin. Adobe announced today that it has created a solution to the problem, and Flash will be viewable via Adobe’s new service Flash Media Server 4.5. Apple’s iOS version of Safari still won’t support Flash, this is a change in how Flash content is delivered… Read More

Adobe has unveiled a preview of Adobe Edge, which promises to bring Flash-like animation and interactive development tools to the Web using HTML5 technologies. Now, Adobe has taken the wraps of Adobe Muse, a new Web publishing and design tool that promises to enable creative types to design and publish Web sites without writing one lick of HTML code. Instead, they'll be able to construct and configure Web sites using Adobe's usual… Read More