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Experimental Flash to HTML5 conversion utility from Adobe

Published on: 13th March, 2011

Adobe has recently launched an experimental Flash to HTML5 conversion tool, codenamed Wallaby, on Adobe’s Labs. The new Wallaby is an AIR application, which offers designers and developers the possibility to convert Adobe Flash Professional (FLA) files into HTML5, by simply using drag and drop. Developers are allowed to expand the distribution of Flash-based content [...]

Adobe says Flash 10.2 has a tenth of 10.1’s consumption

Published on: 20th December, 2010

According to product manager John Nack from Adobe, the 10.2 beta version of Flash Player has only a tenth of the CPU consumption of the previous 10.1 version in some cases. A primary feature of the new version is Stage Video, which is able to transfer most of the load for Flash video to a [...]

Flash on MacBook Air means two hours of battery life less

Published on: 10th November, 2010

The decision Apple made to remove Flash from the new MacBook Air configuration and for future Macs too seems to have as much in common with battery life as with version updating, according to tests performed recently. New benchmarks showed the 11-inch version having six hours of battery life with several websites open and a [...]

YouTube Leanback to launch ahead of Google TV equipment

Published on: 19th October, 2010

YouTube has formally rolled out YouTube Leanback recently. The layout, which has been previewed at Google I/O in May, was designed for 10-foot viewing on Google TV devices or other devices with a long viewing distance as well as a limited set of controls. The interface makes available many common features through non-mouse shortcuts and [...]

Adobe estimates one million Flash downloads on Android

Published on: 19th October, 2010

According to ZDnet, while Adobe enjoyed wide popularity of its 10.1 version of Flash Player on the Android Market where it had more than one million downloads, there are still some issues to be clarified. The main problem appears when sites detect a mobile operating system, for instance Android, because they point them to their [...]

Adobe’s Flash Player to get 3D capabilities

Published on: 14th July, 2010

Adobe seems to be working on a face-lift for its Flash Player, offering it 3D graphics capabilities which will most likely be presented later in 2010. Even if Thibault Imbert, Flash Player product manager, declared in a blog post that the release will be very big, the company hasn’t yet given any precise details. Imbert [...]

128GB flash memory chips from Toshiba

Published on: 20th June, 2010

Toshiba has recently released the first 128GB embedded flash memory chip in the history, setting a new mobile storage record. The new chip is built on a 32 nanometer process and it benefits from 16 8GB NAND layers which are meant to double the previous best capacity; this doesn’t affect the thickness, though. Toshiba has [...]

Adobe’s Flash and Acrobat to suffer critical security vulnerability

Published on: 9th June, 2010

Adobe has recently posted a warning regarding critical security vulnerability involving both Acrobat and Flash. Susceptibility covers Windows and Mac versions of Flash 10.0 or earlier and all the Acrobat 9 versions. They are all supposed to be used as remote control over users’ computers. The pre-release of Flash 10.1 as well as previous versions [...]

Adobe to make the best HTML5 tools

Published on: 16th May, 2010

Adobe would not avoid developing HTML5 to drive Flash, according to the company’s CTO Kevin Lynch. He added that Adobe would not consider the universal standard as a threat and would make tools to produce for HTML5. He did not specify whether this would mean a more advanced Dreamweaver, Flash-to-HTML5 conversion or other tools. Lynch [...]

Adobe’s Flash supported by Android 2.2

Published on: 16th May, 2010

A new Adobe video has shown Flash 10.1 for mobile and the next version of Android. The plugin runs smoothly on a Nexus One and can offer most common features of Flash, which include gaming, 3D, video and dynamic web content as well. Ryan Stewart from Adobe has given some explanations of how particular elements [...]

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