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Smartphones soon to benefit from Flash software

Matt Thomas — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:19:45 +0000

Since the launch of the world wide web, Flash has become one of the most common tools for watching video and digital media online. The software is currently used to stream approximately 75% of all video content, making it the primary technology supporting sites such as Google Video and YouTube.

Up to this point, the majority of netbooks and smartphones have deployed a limited version of the technology, due to their reduced capacity in processing. However, breakthroughs in Flash programming have recently enabled a new version of the software to be released which is compatible with gadgets of lower processing capability.

The new software has been designed to operate as well on a smartphone as it would on a desktop machine, meaning that a host of new facilities will be available to smartphone and netbook users. The new software is due to be launched for high-end handsets within 2010, although Apple has opted to not use the software on its iPhone.

Adobe, who own Flash technology, say that Flash is one of the most widely-used technologies on computers today, with 98% of PCs using it, and 75% of online video being delivered through the software. Flash powers the BBC iPlayer, and is the software behind the majority of online video games.

Ben Wood (Director of Analyst firm CCS Insight), recently reported to the BBC that the enhanced software will enable users to benefit from a host of new features that are currently being designed by web developers, simply by harnessing the power of Adobe Flash’s enhanced capabilities. This should prove to be a popular move for those users who currently rely upon smartphones and netbooks to access the web for business on a regular basis, and encourage more people to utilise these gadgets to access the web.

The new software will be known as ‘Flash 10.1’.

Adobe announces software to create magazines for the iPad

Matt Thomas — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:09:55 +0000

The recent, well documented fall-out between Apple and Adobe over the laters Flash Player has resulted in the player being banned from the iPad , but that’s not stopping Adobe Systems from other efforts to leave its mark on the Apple devices. Adobe announced on Monday their latest development, new viewer software that will allow publishers to create digital versions of magazines.

With the all new software, publishers will be able to use Adobe’s new InDesign CS5 layout software to create the digital version, the content can then be packaged and distributed to the viewer. The showcase example, Conde Nast’s iPad version of Wired, is available through Apple’s App Store as of this week but the full version of the software hasn’t been launched yet.

David Burkett, Adobe’s vice president and general manager of Creative Solutions, said in a statement:

“We aim to make our digital viewer software available to all publishers soon and plan to deliver versions that work across multiple hardware platforms,”

The viewer will be able to permit any number of glitzy effects in navigation, animation, and other user interface features that are shown off in Adobe’s Wired for iPad demonstration video.

And as pertinent to publishers struggling with hard financial times, it also “promises a new advertising paradigm,” according to Adobe.

Apple has spurned and scorned Adobe’s Flash in recent weeks, an all-purpose programming foundation that lets developers reach any number of different computing systems. But, of course, Adobe does have other software. In addition to the InDesign digital publishing tool, it has a Photoshop.com Mobile application available for the iPhone, and it’s working on new software for the iPad and other tablets, so perhaps the relationship between Apple and Adobe is not as bad as has been made out.