Tag: FLASHPLAYER

Adobe Flash Player 10.2 will land in the Android Market today, bringing with it modest performance improvements for Android 2.2 and 2.3, and hardware acceleration for 3.0. Flash 10.2 is also the first version of Flash to work on the Motorola Xoom tablet. Engadget says that they "saw a slight but noticeable boost in framerate when playing a YouTube trailer at 480p" on their Droid 2, and that ...

Don't get us wrong -- Adobe has gotten better about responding to security risks over the past year or so -- but news of a new, critical Flash zero-day exploit going unfixed for a week has us hearing the sad trombone noise all over again. The flaw lies in both the Flash Player and authplay.dll, which ships with Windows versions of Reader. Flash is affected on all operating systems, however. ...

Adobe's just let loose Flash Player 10.3 beta for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, featuring a few new talents ready for developers to take advantage. First up we've got 'Acoustic Echo Cancellation,' which aims to aid voice conferencing by implementing noise suppression, voice activity detection, automatic gain control for volume level compensation, and of course, acoustic echo cancellation. ...

Adobe recently announced that Flash Player 11 would feature some impressive upgrades -- including new hardware accelerated 3D graphics APIs. Currently, Flash 10.1 can render a few thousand polygons at 30 FPS. The updated 3D kung fu allows Flash 11 to easily render hundreds of thousands of polygons at 60 FPS, which is obviously a massive improvement. End users won't notice much difference ...

Adobe Flash Player 10.2 has brought some welcome efficiency gains on our desktops, and Adobe has now announced that its Android and BlackBerry plug-ins will get in on the action as well. In a press release, Adobe states that Flash Player 10.2 will be made available soon to Android 3.0 and BlackBerry tablet users (which pretty much means people who buy the PlayBook when it comes out). There's ...

If you haven't updated your Flash Player in a while, now's the time. Adobe has fixed some critical zero-day security vulnerabilities that were reportedly already being exploited in the wild. If you're on Windows, Mac or Linux, you'll want to make sure you've updated to Adobe Flash Player 10.1.102.64. Android users will have to wait til Monday for an update. One of the bugs fixed in this release ...

Apple and Adobe have been duking it out very publicly over Apple's anti-Flash stance, and the latest update to Apple's OS X, 10.6.4, just added fuel to the fire. The update comes with a version of Flash that Adobe says is outdated and insecure. Apple's release notes for 10.6.4 say that it fixes " multiple issues in the Adobe Flash Player plug-in, the the most serious of which may lead to ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/02/15/adobe-announces-air-flash-for-smartphones/'; Adobe has announced that Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR are both coming to smartphones, starting with devices running Google's Android operating system. We've been expecting to see Flash Player 10.1 for a while, but it looks like it should be coming pretty soon. A beta version has already ...

I was fully prepared for Flash Player 10 to be totally underwhelming, but it looks as though Adobe has gotten things right this time around. After looking at the beta back in July, the new features - 3d effects, hardware acceleration, custom filters and effects - intrigued me. I also noted a slight improvement in performance on my workstation. You can view a full list of v10's features on ...

Download Squad originally told you about the Adobe Flash beta in May, and yesterday Adobe announced further updates to "Astro." So what do you have to look forward to? From a viewer's standpoint, there are several new features of interest. Tops among them: advanced 3d effects - that's right, Flash now supports shaders. Web gamers rejoice, because this no doubt means a whole new era of addictive ...

Adobe has just made the prerelease version of Flash Player 10 available for download. Almost as impressive as the player itself is the fact that the beta is available for Windows, OS X AND Linux (including Ubuntu support)! For the full list of features and known issues, check out the release notes, but some of the highlights are: New text engine Ubuntu OS support Custom filters and ...

At long last, Adobe has released the final version of Flash Player 9 for Linux. The first beta version was released back in October, and today is the first time in a long time the Linux player has been caught up to the Windows version. The version released is x86 only, and there's no word on whether a 64-bit version is on its way. Rumor over at Slashdot is that Adobe's Penguin.SWF blog is ...

At long last, Linux users can finally get a version of Flash Player 9 that runs natively in their OS. Yesterday Adobe released a beta version of Flash Player 9 for Linux. Linux users have been waiting a very long time indeed for this release, having suffered with Flash Player 7 for years while Windows and Mac users got to play with Flash Player 8 and then 9. So, have any of our Linux brethren ...

More than one blogger on the Download Squad team has privately bemoaned the fact that while Flash Player for Windows is up to version 9 (which includes handy features like multiple simultaneous file uploads), Flash Player for Linux has been stuck for some time at version 7. Believe it or not, Adobe hasn't forgotten about you Linux folk, and there's an entire team dedicated to bringing Flash up to ...

Google has started dropping some tests of their streaming video ads and video content from the recent deal with Viacom's MTV Networks. The deal sees MTV Networks providing content for the ads that will run in place of Google's AdWords on websites. Through the ads, Viacom can showcase clips of such premium programs as SpongeBob SquarePants, Laguna Beach, The Real OC, and the MTV Video Awards. ...