Today, 11th of August, Motorola launches Droid 2 mobile phone on Verizon mobile network and it will be available in stores on 12th of August. The important is that this is the first mobile phone that comes with Flash Player 10.1 out of the box.
Droid 2 is running Android [...]
Yesterday Adobe did release Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate 7.
This public prerelease is an opportunity for developers to test and provide early feedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, and compatibility with previously authored content. Consumers can try the prerelease of Flash Player 10.1 to preview hardware acceleration of video on supported Windows PCs, [...]
Half a day ago new versions of Flash Player were released. I’m talking about Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate 6, Flash Player “Gala” for Mac OS X 10.6.3, Flash Player 10.1 for Android and a few other versions.
Flash Player “Gala” introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3 which should reduce [...]
Adobe published a few numbers about Flash Player, numbers that we may already know:
98% of Internet connected PCs have Flash Player
85% of the top 100 websites use Flash Player (Alexa)
75% of web video is viewed using Flash Player (Comscore)
98% of enterprises rely on Flash Player (Forrester)
70% of web games are delivered using Flash Player (Evans [...]
Couple of days ago Ryan Stewart, Evangelist for Adobe, presented the latest version of Flash Player on Android. The versions we are talking about are 10.1 for Flash Player and 2.2 for Android (Froyo). He shows up the http://ecodazoo.com/ a full 3D flash site, Google Finance (http://www.google.com/finance?q=adbe), How I met your mother from CBS, etc. [...]
Two day ago, Mike Chamber, Principal Product Manager at Adobe announced that there will not be any future investment in iPhone based Flash development.
This is the response after Apple put out a new draft of its iPhone developer program license, which banned private APIs and required apps to be written in Objective-C, C, C++, [...]
The FX4 Tour – Flex Camp Bucharest is over now. It has been a great success: there has been around 60 participants from which 65-70 percent were Flex developers. This is great! The Flex community is growing bigger and stronger.
Three interesting things:
seen TransformGestureEvent in action
Slider – Flex Mobile Framework is expected to be available in [...]
Yesterday, 5th of April 2010, Adobe has launched the Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate.
Designed for mobility – hardware acceleration of graphics and video and many other performance improvements, such as rendering, scripting, memory utilization, start-up time, battery and CPU optimizations
Global error handling – improved application reliability and user experience by catching and handling unexpected runtime [...]
A few friends showed me this ad. Incredible! Wonderful made. Please look how the background moves away to give space to the add and at the end the jar is zooming back in the movie. This is why Flash Player will evolve even more. I don’t think HTML5 will be able to do this (at [...]
A new version of Flash Player 10.1 has been released: Flash Player 10.1 beta 3. I summarized what’s new from the release notes bellow.
Support for new platforms
Designed for mobility
Developer productivity
Enhanced browser integration
Expanded options for high quality media delivery
Lots of fixed bugs are included in this release, bugs from graphics, networking, audio/video, text input, etc. More [...]
Flash Player 10.1 on mobile phones? Many thinks that is not possible. But it is. See a few demos of Flash Player 10.1 on different mobile phones showing up “the best way to experience the web“.
Flash Player 10.1 on Android
Flash Player 10.1 on BlackBerry
Flash Player 10.1 on Motorola Droid
Flash Player 10.1 on Palm Pre
Of [...]
Since a couple of days Adobe has release Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 debug version of the flash player as a developer prerelease. You can download it from Adobe Labs: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html. This version is available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
This is a great news because we’ve been looking for a debug version of [...]
Today, Adobe unveiled Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 software for smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks, PCs and other Internet-connected devices, allowing content created using the Adobe Flash Platform to reach users wherever they are.
A public beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS and desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and [...]
Last end of the week has been a busy time for Adobe. They released quite a few updates to Flash and AIR platforms and some security updates for Flash Player, Acrobat Reader and Acrobat.
Now the last public version of Flash Player is 10.0.32.18 and can be downloaded from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/. The update refers to this security [...]
Last year on 1st of August I presented some stats on Flash Player Penetration. Now we have some new stats regarding the versions of Flash Player.
What to notice?
That in a few month Flash Player 10 will overcome Flash Player 9.
That Japan is the fastest adopting country of Flash Player 10.
That in half of an [...]