After 24 years, Adobe Flash Player — the once-ubiquitous utility that fueled the Internet's transformation from text-only to a multimedia bonanza — is heading into the sunset. Adobe this week issued ...

Adobe and Apple are jockeying for power over the mobile computing future, but it's not as simple as the fanboys and haters would have you think. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the late ’90s, people have loved arguing over one topic on Internet design: whether or not Flash, first a Macromedia product and then consumed with a great NOM by Adobe, is a useful tool for ...

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 ...

Adobe says it’s the first major third-party vendor to have used Microsoft’s flawed development code in its products. It patched Shockwave on Tuesday and promises a fix for Flash on Thursday. Adobe ...

Back in 2012, Adobe recognized that Flash's end was near, with a five- to 10-year timeframe for its eventual phasing out. Today, the company got specific: Flash will be supported through to the end of ...

I’ve spent the better part of the last month running a little experiment to see how much I would miss Adobe‘s buggy and insecure Flash Player software if I removed it from my systems altogether. Turns ...

QUESTION: With Flash expiring soon, what should I do to make sure my computer is safe? ANSWER: Adobe’s multimedia platform known as "Flash" was an instrumental tool in the evolution of the Internet ...