Adobe Flash is notoriously both resource intensive and ubiquitous on the web, which hasn’t helped the open web survive in the consumer shift to mobile devices that have smaller screens and processors.

CTO Kevin Lynch leaving Adobe for Apple is just the latest example of how these companies remained tightly linked despite all their disagreements. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

To be fair, Adobe probably wanted Flash do go away as much as everybody else and, by 2015, the company said as much. Since then, it has started to phase out Flash support from its applications and ...

Adobe stepped forward yesterday to acknowledge that it’s the first major third-party vendor to have used Microsoft’s flawed development code in its products. According to multiple security advisories ...

If you’ve ever been frustrated by visiting a website on your smartphone or tablet and finding it won’t work because it uses Flash, you’ll welcome the latest Google initiative: it is now flagging Flash ...

Flash Player 10.1 has been installed on more than 20 million handsets in the six months since its launch, Adobe has said, as it outlined its plans for its mobile runtimes. Adobe, which has seen Flash ...

There are myriad of ways to improve the battery-life of a laptop, but one of the best is to disable CPU-intensive (or perhaps even GPU-intensive) browser plugins. Adobe's Flash is a perfect example of ...

Adobe unveiled the Flash 10.1 player, which will enable all Adobe Flash content to be accessible on smartphones. This means you’ll be able to play Flash-based games and view Flash-based videos and Web ...

Even before Adobe revealed its first full-fledged Flash Player for smartphones on Thursday, we got a chance to play online games and video from an Android phone. Jessica Dolcourt VP, Content ...

Flash, it's been a good run. We've had a lot of fun together, but it's time to get some distance... permanently. That doesn't erase my fond memories of playing together back in the day, but we both ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is excerpted from PC Advisor. Apple and Adobe are best buddies, right? Have been for years. Started desktop publishing together. Owned the digital creative market.

An Adobe product manager has pointed to the fact that Apple had refused to support Flash on iOS as a major reason for the company's decision to halt development of the Flash Player for mobile devices.