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Posted April 17, 2013, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Industry News
Netflix has been working toward transitioning away from Silverlight to HTML5, it recently indicated on its technology blog. With Silverlight's biggest customer fleeing the web-based video plug-in scene, the imminent demise of browser plug-ins like Adobe Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight…
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Posted March 28, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web With Video
Epic has teamed up with Mozilla to bring Unreal Engine 3 to the web with Firefox, plug-in free. The announcement came during the Game Developers Conference where Mozilla showed Unreal Tournament and the Citadel demo running natively in the browser.
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Posted March 12, 2013, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Starting today, Microsoft says Internet Explorer 10 will enable Adobe Flash content by default while immersive mode is engaged (i.e. "Metro mode" for IE). The change will be delivered via Microsoft's usual round of "Patch Tuesday" updates for both Windows…
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Posted December 7, 2012, 3:51 AM by Per Hansson | Filed in TechSpot, Software
Being one of the most prolific sources of security vulnerabilities in Windows and other platforms, Adobe Flash Player needs no introduction. In spite of that reputation, and the fact that the rest of the industry is moving away from Flash, Microsoft surprised many of us by bundling the software with its operating system for the first time with Windows 8. This is after previously announcing that they wouldn't allow Flash in the Metro version of Internet Explorer 10 -- a decision the company later reversed.

I was glad when the Adobe Flash Player Updater was released in March. Finally the day had come when our machines would be silently updated with the latest Flash version... or so I thought. It'd just seem Adobe is making all possible efforts to make its software more bloated and less attractive to all consumers, here's why.
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Posted December 5, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Adobe is celebrating their 30th birthday this week. The company was founded in 1982 by Charles Geschke and John Warnock following their departure from Xerox PARC. The duo started working on PostScript, a page description language that would eventually be…
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Posted November 14, 2012, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Apple, Software
Google silently rolled out an update to Chrome which featured an unusual change, apparently one worthy of an announcement on the Chrome Blog: improved Adobe Flash plug-in sandboxing. The company claims its new method of fortifying Flash makes Adobe's plug-in…
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Posted May 23, 2012, 6:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Neowin reports that well-known Windows insider "Canouna" has tweeted the intended launch date for the official Release Preview (i.e. Release Candidate) of Windows 8. According to the source, the Windows 8 RC will be available on June 1. This latest…
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Posted March 13, 2012, 8:30 AM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, Software
Last month, Google patched a critical Flash-based vulnerability which could allow hackers to circumvent Chrome's often trumpeted sandbox security feature. The update capped the maximum number of Flash JIT (just-in-time) pages to a level that which would exclude foreseeable exploits. After…
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Posted January 25, 2012, 5:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software, IT Security
It's recently come to our attention that the installer for Adobe Shockwave Player is coming bundled with an optional installation of Norton Security Scan. The bundle was pointed out by Martin Brinkmann from gHacks and confimed by our Editor in Chief,…
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Posted November 9, 2011, 12:08 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Software
In a rather unexpected move, Adobe has told developers that it no longer plans to develop future versions of its Flash Player for mobile browsers, and will instead focus on HTML5 and other web technologies. ZDNet broke the news earlier…
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Posted October 5, 2011, 1:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming, The Web With Video
Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 now supports Adobe Flash, meaning many popular gaming titles will soon be finding their way to web browsers and social networking sites. Epic’s gaming engine was originally designed for high-end PCs and gaming consoles, but has…
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Posted October 22, 2010, 5:15 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Apple, The Web
Apple revamped its MacBook Air this week and it was quickly discovered that the new laptop ships without Adobe Flash pre-installed. All previous generations of Macs have shipped with Adobe Flash, but those days are officially over. This wasn't just…
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Posted October 14, 2010, 1:04 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Mobile Computing, The Web
Despite Apple's insistence that Flash must die and is not worth the hassle of porting to mobile devices, it is still one of the most demanded features for mobile browsers today. Unfortunately, not many devices support it, though apart from…
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