(CBS) - Adobe announced Wednesday it will abandon its mobile Flash Player, instead switching support to HTML5. ZDNET obtained an email meant for Adobe's partners Tuesday, which said "Adobe is stopping ...

Adobe Flash, once the de-facto standard for media playback on the web, has lost favor in the industry due to increasing concerns over security and performance. At the ...

Shumway, Mozilla’s technology experiment to build an efficient, web-native renderer for Flash files, has now landed in the latest Firefox Nightly builds. The idea behind this project – which is still ...

For some companies, change is not so easy. Case in point: Adobe, which last week doubled down its efforts on Flash, releasing Flash Player 11, Air 3, and ramping up its 3-D and HD support–even as many ...

Twitch is about to get a whole lot friendlier to the anti-Adobe Flash crowd. The game streaming site is starting to release its HTML5-based video player for the web in small increments. First up are ...

The slow death of Adobe Flash has been hastened — YouTube, which used the platform as the standard way to play its videos, has dumped Flash in favor of HTML5 for ...

Actually, no current mobile operating system supports Flash. It's not just the popularity of iOS devices that has driven Flash usage, it's the entire smartphone and tablet marketplace. Adobe ...

Platforms Steam has a razzle-dazzle new video player that's actually usable, but press F for the unlucky Valve employees who had to re-encode all 400,000+ trailers on the platform Platforms YouTube ...

As you know, OS X Lion ships without Flash Player to the delight of fans in support of Apple’s ongoing argument against Adobe’s resource-hungry technology. This leaves us with three choices: Avoid ...

Flash has taken quite a beating lately by everyone from Apple (no Flash on iPad or iPhones) to YouTube (transitioning to HTML5 video) to users sick of security ...

We haven't exactly been secretive about our distaste for Adobe's Flash Player here at TUAW. Flash on the Mac has traditionally been a terrible resource hog, and while the pre-release of Flash Player ...

Video still plays underneath in Flash, but the company is working toward a full HTML5 player. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying ...