Adobe Working Hard to Get Flash Onto Phones

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posted Jun 4, 2009, 11:34 AM   by Eric M. Zeman

Today the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Adobe "is reengineering its software so Flash-based games and videos can run on different handsets as well as PCs without being modified." Adobe says it has teams working to create Flash support for every smartphone platform, including webOS, S60, Android, BlackBerry OS and iPhone OS. Adobe has partnered with chip and phone makers, as well as developers in hopes that a cross-platform version of Flash can be created. Flash is used by many web sites. Giving smartphones the power to run Flash would make them much more PC-like when it comes to gaming and browsing the web.

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