Posts Tagged ‘Flash’

Adobe today confirmed that it will be removing life support from its barely breathing mobile Flash platform. Effectively, Adobe kills all remaining hopes of some service providers that Flash will be surviving and supporting existing applications for a few more years. Mobile browsers are changing and will have to change at an even faster pace along with this decision, which will alter the appearance and usage of web apps within a few years.

Adobe is now offering a preview version of Wallaby, a Flash-To-HTML5 Conversion software. The software is compatible with Webkit browsers such as Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari.

Adobe released Flash 10.2, a major update that addresses many of the concerns that questioned the future of Flash and, at least officially, kicked it out of Apple’s platform strategy. Is it time to rethink the future of Flash?

Rob Sayre, one of the leading developers of the Firefox platform has posted a very candid opinion about Apple’s influence on the web and it is not the kind of opinion you would expect. In fact, Sayre openly criticizes Flash as being incompatible with the mission of Firefox.

Lexar today announced the first 128 GB SDXC memory card we are aware of. It is targeted at photo enthusiasts, thanks to a 133x read speed (about 20 MB/s), but the size is beyond what even photographers really need. What could you store in 128 GB?

Casual gaming is a bastion for Adobe’s Flash format, but we are told that it is just a matter of time until HTML5 will replace Flash as we know it today. Grant Skinner has released the best casual HTML5 game we have seen to date and we wonder why there is still a need for Flash, if HTML5 is just at its beginning and Flash is struggling to stay current?

Google said that it is ready to roll out sandboxed and more secure Flash integration within Chrome. The feature will initially be only available to Chrome Dev versions, but should be made available to the stable Chrome soon. Adobe teased a new version of Flash that is promised to run faster and consume less hardware power.

A couple weeks ago, we wrote about Seagate’s upcoming technology to increase the storage capacity of hard drives over the next 10 to 15 years. Flash will not be able to catch up with hard drives, according to Seagate, but it isn’t standing still either. Micron and Intel are now sampling a technology that could bring 512 MB SSDs into the mass market and 1 TB SSD for those who are looking for maximum capacity in SSDs. As Intel is supplying flash memory to Apple, we could be seeing a capacity bump for Apple products by January.

Conceivably, Flash’s future is more than questionable at this point, but Adobe is pushing ahead with new visions and features for the format. Product manager Thibault Imbert teases that “some serious” stuff is on its way for 3D developers. Details are promised to be revealed in October.

Most educational websites in the U.S. are using Flash applications that fail to adequately secure these pages. This is a growing problem for the Internet as vulnerable sites can be hijacked for malicious and criminal activity, according to a paper published in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics this month.

It may seem that Steve Jobs is on a lonely crusade against Adobe’s Flash format with the rest of the industry simply waiting who this battle will turn out. While Adobe is rallying support for Flash, Apple receives support from a rather unexpected ally, the adult film industry. The founder of Digital Playground, one of the porn heavyweights in the U.S., told ConceivablyTech that it will abandon Flash as soon as the desktop browsers fully support HTML 5. We also learned that 3D is just not there yet and that online movie streaming is unlikely to replace Blu-ray discs anytime soon.

One day before the release of the iPhone 4, Adobe and Mingleverse showcased a telepresence-like audio visual communication technology running on Android 2.2 Froyo, Flash 10.1 and a 3G network. While the application is targeted to arrive on the iPhone as well, it shows that Adobe has gathered significant support for its platform on Android that Apple should take seriously. Especially since Apple’s own Facetime does not run over AT&Ts 3G network.