Adobe's Flash Evangelist, Kevin Lynch, Jumps To Flash-Hater Apple

Once upon a time, Kevin Lynch lived to defend Adobe's Flash against the haters at Apple. Now he's joining them.

Section: Cloud Author: Brian S Hall Publish date: March 19, 2013 Interaction count: 0

Whose Fault Is It When Your PC Gets Hacked? Probably Not Microsoft's

A new study finds that Microsoft products account for only 14% of current PC vulnerabilities. The rest belong to third-party applications.

Section: Hack Author: Antone Gonsalves Publish date: March 18, 2013 Interaction count: 0

Adobe Closes BrowserLab, Blames Mobile Platform Rise

On March 13, Adobe unexpectedly added a chapter to the story of the fading of the PC, when it announced that it would be closing down its…

Section: Hack Author: Brian Proffitt Publish date: March 14, 2013 Interaction count: 0

Microsoft Adds Flash Back To IE10 - Is That A Good Thing?

Microsoft is adding Flash support back into its IE10 browser. But do we really want it?

Section: Web Author: Mark Hachman Publish date: March 12, 2013 Interaction count: 0

Tablet Mobile Web Traffic Now Eclipses Smartphone Traffic [Charts]

Adobe ran a study of 1,000 sites with more than 1 billion page views and found that tablets drive more traffic than smartphones.

Section: Mobile Author: Dan Rowinski Publish date: March 7, 2013 Interaction count: 0

The Top 5 Absolute Best iPad Photo-Editing Apps

The iPad isn't just for content consumption anymore. Here's our roundup of the top five best photo-editing apps for Apple's tablet.

Section: Mobile Author: John Paul Titlow Publish date: February 21, 2013 Interaction count: 0

Users Fiddle While Java Burns

Despite Oracle Java being ranked among the highest risk vulnerabilities, a startling 72% of Java users are not bothering to update their…

Section: Hack Author: Brian Proffitt Publish date: February 5, 2013 Interaction count: 0

5 Last-Minute Tech Gifts For People You Hate

What about the people you hate? They all need gifts too. Fortunately, there's a wide range of less-than-desirable tech gifts, even if you're…

Section: Web Author: John Paul Titlow Publish date: December 21, 2012 Interaction count: 0

ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: Flash

When the Web was still text links and tables, Adobe Flash brought us rollovers, interactive games and kitten videos. But a hard stand by…

Section: Hack Author: Cormac Foster Publish date: October 16, 2012 Interaction count: 0

Adobe Reintroduces PhoneGap, Expanding Mobile App Options

A year ago, the mobile development community was shocked to learn that one of it favorite tools, PhoneGap, was acquired by Adobe. PhoneGap…

Section: Mobile Author: Dan Rowinski Publish date: September 24, 2012 Interaction count: 0

"Do Not Track" Irony: Apache Developer Blocks It To Save It

Do Not Track, a tool designed to afford users privacy as they browse through the Web, will be active by default when users install or…

Section: Web Author: Brian Proffitt Publish date: September 10, 2012 Interaction count: 0

RIP Adobe Flash on Android

On August 15, Adobe will no longer offer Flash for Android through the Google Play store. Any Android device that does not already have…

Section: Mobile Author: Dan Rowinski Publish date: August 14, 2012 Interaction count: 0

Last Gasp for Mobile Flash

Today Adobe released Flash Player 11.1 into the Android Market, fulfilling its promise to support Flash on Ice Cream Sandwich. Adobe is…

Section: Mobile Author: Dan Rowinski Publish date: December 16, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Mobile Flash for ICS by End of 2011

According to several reports, Flash for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will be ready by the end of 2011. This will be the final release of…

Section: Mobile Author: Dan Rowinski Publish date: November 20, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Adobe Ignored Smartphones Until It Was Too Late

A former manager and engineer of Flash at Adobe said today that when the true smartphone revolution came in 2007 with the announcement of…

Section: Mobile Author: Dan Rowinski Publish date: November 9, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Reaction to the Death of Mobile Flash?

The Web is singing this morning. The coming death of Flash on mobile devices has made a lot of tech pundits and developers very happy. There…

Section: Play Author: Dan Rowinski Publish date: November 9, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Adobe Launches Photo Stream Alternative

Two weeks ago, Apple launched iOS 5 and along with it came Photo Stream, the photo-syncing feature of iCloud. With it, Mac and iOS users can…

Section: Web Author: John Paul Titlow Publish date: October 27, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Adobe Announces Creative Touch Apps

Adobe is making big news on the first day of its Adobe MAX conference. First they announced that they are buying Web font pioneerTypeKit…

Section: Mobile Author: Dan Rowinski Publish date: October 3, 2011 Interaction count: 0

CSS Regions to Enable More Fluid Web Layouts

In its ongoing quest to help publishers and designers adapt print-style layouts to the Web across devices, Adobe has admittedly run into a…

Section: Web Author: John Paul Titlow Publish date: September 29, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Can Adobe and Adobe Save Print Media?

Newspapers and magazines still clinging to hopes that tablets will help revitalize their businesses have something to look forward to this…

Section: Web Author: John Paul Titlow Publish date: September 7, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Adobe Launches PDF Creation App For iOS

Adobe has launched an application for iOS that lets you create PDF files from an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. CreatePDF is not the first app…

Section: Web Author: John Paul Titlow Publish date: August 29, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Farewell Flash? Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Animations Tool "Adobe Edge"

Today, Adobe is launching a new tool called Adobe Edge which will allow creative professionals to design animated Web content using Web…

Section: Web Author: Sarah Perez Publish date: July 31, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Adobe Launches HTML5 Tool Edge