Adobe said that Android will win the tablet wars because Apple’s gear is not as Flash friendly. Steve Jobs famously refused to allow Apple fanboys to use Flash in his gizmos, claim they were responsible crashing his fruity toys. But Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said the argument between Apple and his company over the lack of Adobe Flash on iOS is over. Narayen claimed the disagreement between the two companies hadn’t ultimately been about the technology. “It’s a business model issue, and it’s about control of a platform,” he said. Now he is seeing Apple approve Adobe apps because it still thinks it has  control of the business model associated w

Kingston have just announced that they are releasing a new flash drive which can write at 80 Mbps. Dubbed the USB 3.0 Data Traveller the flash drive is nearly three times faster than existing thumb drives. The drive can read at 100 MBps and write at 70 Mbps and if it sounds too good to be true, you would be right. To get these speeds when the USB drive is plugged into USB 3.0 port and they are thin on the ground at the moment. You could still buy one as it will work in the USB 2.0 port too but that would be largely pointless. In their press release, the company mentions that their G2 Pen Drive is ideal choice for professionals who want to take advantages of all the features offer

Flash 10.3 is here (for Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android) bringing with it “improved stability, stronger security and user privacy protection, and new desktop audio/video capabilities for businesses and developers”. More excitingly than that though is the fact that the lastest 0.1 increase in Flashness means that users now get Flash cookie control. Actually, that’s not as exciting as it sounds. There’s no double-choc-chip action here – just a feature enabling you to clear local storage in IE, Chrome and Firefox. There has been a number of bug fixes from 10.2 though and Adobe has also thrown in some new tools including an auto-update feature for Mac

Just as expected, Adobe Systems Inc. has released version 10.2 of Flash Player for Android today. The update is now available for free in the Android Market for a number of devices running Android 2.2 Froyo and higher. Adobe does indicate that Flash Player 10.2 is still in beta for tablets with Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Users are asked to update to Android 3.0.1 build before installing Flash Player 10.2. According to Adobe, Flash Player 10.2 includes various improvements and enhancements. Most notably, this version “takes advantage of multi-core processors and includes other performance improvements to deliver improved performance of video and interactive content on many devices

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen told a Web 2.0 panel today that Flash remained a relevant platform, despite Club Cupertino’s much-ballyhooed preference for the rapidly evolving HTML5 standard. “Flash has changed the world,” Narayen insisted during a panel discussion transcribed and quoted by CNN. “When you change the world with what you deliver, you’ll have fans and supporters – and you’ll have your detractors. We have continued to innovate, and we will [do so in the future].” Narayen also emphasized that Adobe welcomed developers interested in designing content and apps for multiple platforms. “[Really], it’s all about how you co

Adobe Systems plans to release the final version of Flash Player 10.1 for smartphones on Tuesday, but very few people will be able to use it right away. Flash Player 10.1 is designed to offer a consistent user experience across laptops, desktops, tablets, phones and televisions. The player for desktops became available June 10. Users of phones running Android 2.2 will be the first to get the player, said Anup Muraka, director of technology strategy at Adobe. The trouble is that version 2.2 has so far only been pushed out to review units of one phone model, the Nexus One. All Nexus One phones, Motorola’s Droid and other Android models are expected to get the operating system so

Earlier this month, Adobe Systems announced it was discontinuing its development of Flash for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, and would refocus much of its mobile efforts on devices built on Google’s open-source Android platform. On Tuesday, a Google vice president confirmed that full support for Flash is coming in the next version of Android. In an interview with The New York Times, Google Vice President of Engineering Andy Rubin took a swipe at Apple, which has refused to support Flash on its mobile devices. Sometimes being open, the paper quoted him, “means not being militant about the things consumers are actually enjoying.” ‘A Matter of Time’

EW YORK – For iPhone users who’ve been wondering whether their devices will support Flash technology for Web video and games anytime soon, the answer is finally here, straight from Steve Jobs: No. In a detailed offensive against the technology owned by Adobe Systems Inc., Apple’s CEO wrote Thursday that Flash has too many bugs, drains batteries too quickly and is too oriented to personal computers to work on the iPhone and iPad. This is not the first time Jobs has publicly criticized Flash, but the statement was his clearest, most definitive — and longest — on the subject. In his 1,685-word “Thoughts on Flash,” Jobs laid out his reasons for excludi