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Adobe Systems is working with several digital ad companies to create a new format for mobile ads that can tap into Flash or HTML5. Announced today at the Adobe Max developers conference, the collaboration will define two full-screen ad formats in a bid to create a new industry standard for mobile device ads. Though geared [...]

SAN FRANCISCO–If Adobe Systems had its druthers, Google Android would turn into the Microsoft Windows of the 21st century. If there was any doubt that Adobe’s mobile strategy is now tied to the long-term success of Android, it was removed by a day-long presentation by Adobe executives and managers about how Adobe is adapting its [...]

The Motorola Droid 2 smartphone Verizon Wireless announced the pre-sale of the Motorola Droid 2 smartphone online starting tomorrow, with in-store sales on Thursday. The Droid 2 sells for $200 after rebate and a two-year contract for voice and data. The Droid 2 has attracted attention for having the Android 2.2 mobile platform, known as [...]

Adobe, with the planned “Hero” version of its open source Flex framework for building Web applications, will feature mobile application-building capabilities, the company said this week. The company had investigated splitting off mobile development into a new Flex framework branch, codenamed “Slider.” But performance increases on smartphone-class devices and an optimized performance of Adobe runtimes [...]

Google has fulfilled a promise to build Adobe Systems’ Flash Player into Chrome, a move that helps keep the beleaguered plug-in relevant despite significant efforts to replace it. Chrome 5.0.376.86, the stable version of Chrome released Thursday, extends the plug-in to the mainstream version of Google’s browser. Previously it was only in the developer and [...]

Adobe launched Flash Player for Android 10.1 yesterday — the latest move in the chess match between Adobe and Apple over the future of interactive mobile ads and video content. Now, the world can begin to experience firsthand whether Flash delivers as expected on smartphones, or if Steve Jobs made the right move in turning [...]

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. [ [...]

After enduring months of scorn from Apple, Adobe Systems is set to begin a major effort to claim some of the mobile computing initiative for itself starting Monday night. That’s when the company plans to issue an all-but-finished beta of Flash Player 10.1, moving from demos and rhetoric to a more concrete answer to those [...]

Apple on Tuesday patched 28 vulnerabilities in is Snow Leopard operating system, including two in Adobe’s Flash Player. But in another example of the tension between the two companies — sparked by Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ rejection of Flash as slow, buggy and obsolete — Adobe immediately countered by noting that Apple’s Flash fixes were [...]

Adobe Systems has temporarily halted its Labs program for the development of Flash Player 10 software for 64-bit Linux, according to a bulletin from the Adobe Labs. The company, though, remains “fully committed to bringing native 64-bit Flash Player for the desktop by providing native support for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux 64-bit platforms in an [...]