Pwn2Own: Down go all the browsers
In the eternal war between crackers and security professionals, the hackers have won the latest battle. At the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada, the HP Zero Day Initiative’s (ZDI) annual...
View ArticleThere’s next to no cloud in the Adobe Creative Cloud
Mea culpa. When the news first broke that Adobe was no longer going to be selling its Adobe Creative software line— Photoshop, InDesign, DreamWeaver, etc., etc. — as Adobe Creative CloudI thought Adobe...
View ArticleFed up with Adobe Flash? Make it safer
We’re addicted to Adobe Flash, and it’s time to break the habit. In the last three months, multiple Flash security holes have been found and exploited. In the last two weeks alone, security expert...
View ArticleiPhone vs. Android: Five points of difference
Wow, the way people are arguing about iPhones vs. Android phones I’m having flash-backs to the grand old tech. flame wars of Macs vs. PCs; OS/2 vs. Windows; or vi vs. EMACS. Now, I don’t have a dog in...
View ArticleGoogle removing H.264 from Chrome does nothing to HMTL5
In some technology circles, you’d think Google was proposing throwing cats into a wood-chipper from the way some people are reacting to Google’s announcement that it was focusing its support on its own...
View ArticleFlash is dead. Long live HTML5.
Adobe’s love affair with its Flash format has come to an end. Oh sure, Adobe said they were just killing development on mobile browser Flash in favor of HTML5, but seriously, do you think, that they’ll...
View ArticleAdobe abandons Linux
There was a time when I hoped that Adobe would port more of their applications to the Linux desktop. Those hopes have been dashed. Adobe has announced their roadmap for Adobe Flash and AIR and Linux is...
View ArticleThere’s trouble with three major Linux desktop application developers
The Linux desktop has long had most of the apps anyone could ever really need. Sure, it doesn’t have some specific applications, like Adobe Photoshop or Quicken, but it had other apps. Such as Gimp for...
View ArticleNo Flash for Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, users
You may not have noticed at the time but Adobe told us back in February that Flash Player would not not supported on Android 4.1 and users should uninstall Flash Player prior to upgrading to Android...
View ArticleAdobe Flash: I’m not dead yet!
Yes, we all hate Flash. Even Adobe’s not that crazy about Flash anymore. Too bad. There’s still no replacement for it. HTML5 video you say? What about it? There’s nothing magical about it. HTML5’s...
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