Adobe appears to call the white flag on its mobile strategy. Unnamed sources are claiming that Adobe will announce soon that it will stop development in porting over the Flash Player on mobile devices and will focus on AIR.
Topic: Adobe Flash
Dell adds 7-inch tablet to Streak line, adds 4G
Dell’s press conference also unveiled the Dell Streak 7, its new tablet offering as part of its Streak line. Now running Android 2.2, the tablet will take advantage of US carrier T-Mobile’s 4G network, allowing users to download content at near-broadband speeds.
BlackBerry PlayBook gets US Release Date and US Carrier
RIM has just found a home for their new tablet, the PlayBook. At least, in North America.
The BlackBerry 4G PlayBook will be having a play-date with Sprint’s networks “this summer.” It’s exclusive to carrier and will be “4G”.
TECHGEEK Podcast 18: Put that in your phone
John Brumby goes Oprah and starts giving doctors iPads, Facebook tries to kill Gmail with their own email project and your phone will be able to determine if you have a STD instantly. What a freaky little world.
BlackBerry 7″ Tablet announced at Developer Conference
BlackBerry has just announced a 7″ tablet called the PlayBook at their 2010 BlackBerry Developer Conference. Engadget is reporting that the device has 1080p HDMI support, USB ports, 1GHz dual-core processors with symmetric multiprocessing, 1GB of RAM. and can be paired with the BlackBerry Torch. Read More »
Google Chrome update includes built-in Flash
Chrome users will now notice that they should get an update, and it’s a very very big update. Google, along with Adobe, have finally pushed out the in-built Adobe Flash Player in the browser – effectively meaning that you can go straight onto YouTube and play a video without downloading the Google Chrome specific plugin for Adobe Flash, as it will now be in the browser.
Leaked prototype of new iPhone… found in a bar
RUMOUR MILL: Is this the next iPhone? You know how we love rumours of the device that seems to have a God-complex to it. Gizmodo today has posted a couple of photos of a prototype that they found in a bar (someone from Apple must be s**ting themselves).
Who’s not happy about Flash on the iPad? Adobe!
While reaction is mixed about the iPad – mainly on why do we actually need it and the name of the product – t has a lot of features. However, one of them is not Flash – and that has made Adobe a bit pissed off since they continuously advocating for Flash on iPhone, and it looks like it would be the same for the iPad. The lack of Adobe Flash would not allow users to access sites like Hulu or the BBC iPlayer as they depend on Flash as their video player and not QuickTime.
New Flash player finally brings full support to mobile devices – except the iPhone
Adobe will announce tomorrow at this year’s MAX conference, Adobe’s worldwide developers conference, that it has secured partnerships with Research in Motion (RIM), Windows Mobile, Palm and Google to roll out full Flash capabilities, similar to what you can see on your desktop, to various products and their respective platforms.
Flash may come to the iPhone soon…
Adobe has reportedly confirmed to Flash Magazine that Flash is coming to the iPhone. Senior Director of Engineering Perter Betlem has said that it would be coming to the phone, but he said that it would be Apple that would “calls the shots as to when it’ll be available”.
Flash exploits could be a keylogger
Adobe has issued 3 critical system updates for it’s popular Flash program, with one designed to stop a problem in a way Flash interacts with browsers, which could result in users’ key strokes transmitted to the attacker.
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