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  UPDATE: And its official. Click here. Remember how Steve Jobs loathed Adobe Flash because it was not suitable for mobile devices despite Adobe claiming it was? Well, it turns out the late Apple CEO was right. A forthcoming announcement received by ZDNet reveals that Adobe will cease development of Flash Player on new mobile [...]

Adobe is trying to tap the increasing tablet market by introducing touch enabled apps. Coined as Adobe Touch Apps, there are total six touch apps that are optimized for tablet. First up is their flagship product, Adobe Photoshop Touch. Specially built for tablets, users can use simple finger gestures to edit and apply professional effects. [...]

  Adobe today released a new version of its Flash Player for desktops and Android devices. The Flash Player 10.3 promises to improve stability, enhance security and privacy protection that now allows to clear up local storage from browsers’ privacy settings. Additionally, the desktop version also gets couple of new features like media measurement to [...]

  Adobe at the Adobe’s MAX conference today unwrapped the latest version of the AIR platform. The cross-platform runtime will now support Blackberry’s Tablet OS and TVs in addition to OSes like Android, iOS, Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Samsung will be the first manufacturer to ship the AIR runtime in their SmartTVs. Adobe also [...]

  After months of beta testing and release candidates, Adobe has finally released Flash 10.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux OSes. The new update brings a lot of things like improved performance, H.264 video decoding, multi-touch support, better power management and Mac-specific updates. The Mac version is now a Cocoa app that takes advantages of [...]

  With the turmoil going on between Apple and Adobe, this should come as a respite for the Flash software maker. At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Zedomax stumbled upon a prototype Android tablet at the Adobe booth. The prototype seemed to run Android OS 2.1 but more importantly, ran Adobe’s Flash and [...]

  UPDATE: Adobe CEO responds. Apple CEO, Steve Jobs has posted his thoughts on Adobe Flash, which lists down six simple reasons “Why Apple doesn’t allow Flash”. The post goes down highlighting the flaws in Adobe’s Flash but the most important reason Jobs claims that using Flash to develop iPhone OS apps “ultimately results in [...]

  Adobe held a small event in Mumbai unveiling its latest Creative Suite 5 (CS5). The newest version concentrates on interactivity, performance and maximizing the created content to be deployed on a number of media and platforms. It includes a new app, Flash Catalyst that tends to allow designers to quickly transform their Photoshop and [...]

  Apple may downplay Flash by not supporting it but Adobe claims iPhone and iPod touch users think otherwise. According to their in-house data and visits to Adobe.com, more than 7m attempts to download flash were initiated by iPhone / iPod touch users in December alone. This number is more than double than what Adobe [...]

  Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch and even the recently announced iPad excel as far as web surfing is concerned but it’s an indigestible fact that all these revolutionary devices do not have Adobe Flash support. Now with the launch of iPad, Adobe has responded to bring Flash support albeit by way of apps only. Flash [...]

  Adobe has released the beta versions of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2, which were revealed at the Adobe Max conference last month. Both the applications are available for x86 systems running Windows, Mac and Linux OSes and support multi-touch commands and gestures. The new AIR 2 now not only allows to create feature-rich [...]

  Adobe had introduced the Technical Communication Suite long back to fill the void gap and provide a complete suite for people who are into Technical Communication, Training Professionals, Help Authors and Instructional Designers. This latest release of Adobe Technical Communication Suite includes the following components: Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe FrameMaker 9, Adobe RoboHelp 8, [...]

  At the Adobe MAX conference, Adobe announced Flash Player 10.1 that is not just another update patching up security and other loopholes. In fact, v10.1 brings lots of new additions, like full flash viewing capabilities for smartphones, smartbooks and also benefits from GPU accelerated video decoding. Flash Player 10.1 is specially designed for mobile [...]