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Adobe President and CEO Shantanu Narayen, recently spoke to Fox Business about the launch of Adobe CS5 and Apple’s resistance to putting Flash on the iPhone OS and banning of Flash-compiled apps. That’s all good and fun, but what we care about is this quote:

We have a number of excited partners who are working aggressively with us to bring Flash to their devices, whether they be smartphones as well as handsets, and so companies like Google or RIM or Palm are going to be releasing versions of Flash on smartphones and tablets in the second half of the year.

The first release date Adobe gave us: October 2009. Sigh.

This does line up with what PreCentral Forum member deesugar heard from Adobe employee Antonio Flores: "As Mark indicated, we’re holding Palm to strict ship criteria but they are close. We expect that a public beta should occur in a similar timeframe to that of Android – May/June. At this time, we’re not doing a wider pre-release program."

[via: Business Insider]

Thanks to coasterer for the tip! Also: the irony of having to post a Flash-only video on this story is not lost on us.

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We already knew that Flash is coming to webOS, but today, during an Adobe conference at Moble World Congress, it was announced that Adobe is bring their Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) to smartphones, including webOS.

Adobe’s AIR lets developers create applications based on web programming languages like HTML and javascript, and naturally with support for Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex.

This move by Adobe is part of their efforts to entice developers over, and really it’s quite smart. Developers will only need to make a single AIR application and that will be deployable on all major smartphone platforms.

Keen readers might remember how back in September we reported on how Flash 10.1 would include support multi-touch and accelerometers. Well, evidently Adobe’s continuing down that route and Gizmodo is reporting multi-touch support is present in the Android port at the very least.

From the sounds of it, AIR will be debuting on the Android and will launch on other platforms, including webOS thereafter.  This is an interesting announcement to say the least. It’ll definitely be fascinating to see how events unravel from here.

[via: Gizmodo]

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As most of you already know, Palm and Adobe had promised before that Flash 10.1 is coming to webOS, we just didn’t have an exact date. We still do not have the exact date, but giving us the month of February is good enough, even more so if video recording capabilities come with it.

Apparently, webOS [...]

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Ars Technica is reporting that the Khronos Group, the organization responsible for the development of WebGL, released the WebGL provisonal public draft specification early last week, marking an important milestone in standardizing what is shaping up to be a truly cutting edge web technology. 

For those unfamiliar, WebGL is a cross-platform and royalty free web standard for a low-level  3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2.0 that offers a way to render 3D graphics in the browser without requiring plugins such as Adobe’s Flash (which is coming to webOS next year) and Microsoft’s Silverlight.  Since webOS is based largely on web technologies, and applications are essentially web apps, this bodes well for Palm’s platform.

We’ve seen some amazing things done with the technology prior to the draft specification being released. We have a couple of demos (in Flash, not webGL ) after the break!

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As far as we know, Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is coming to Palm webOS in the first half of 2010. And many, including me, are hoping for an end of this year, apparently, we might get that little wish come true. You see, Adobe has released their first public beta version of Flash 10.1.

At this [...]

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It has been a long road since Palm confirmed to be part of the Open Screen Project at the GSMA Mobile World Congress. This will bring Adobe Flash Player on the new Palm webOS platform. Back on October 5th we received great news Adobe that gave us new hope.

Now we get even more hope – [...]

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Back in February, at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, Palm confirmed to join the Open Screen Project, which will bring Adobe Flash Player on the new Palm webOS platform. Led by Adobe, the Open Screen Project includes industry leaders working together to provide a consistent runtime environment and user experience across mobile phones, desktops, and [...]

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Adobe Systems CEO Shantanu Neayen recently announced that a beta of Flash Player 10 beta for smartphones will be available in October and featured at their MAX developer conference. Like Google (Android) and others, Palm is involved in Adobe’s Open Screen Project, an initiative to bring Adobe Flash to all manner of smartphones. This is [...]

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At the GSMA Mobile World Congress, Palm has confirmed to join the Open Screen Project – which will bring Adobe Flash Player on the new Palm webOS platform. Led by Adobe, the Open Screen Project includes industry leaders working together to provide a consistent runtime environment and user experience across mobile phones, desktops, and other consumer [...]

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