Mobile Flash Abandoned for HTML5: Adobe Surrenders, Apple Wins?

Adobe’s reportedly killing mobile Flash, switching development efforts to HTML5 and laying off 750 people—about 8% of its global workforce—in the process.

Google Quietly Drops Elegant Google Music Web App

Whoa-hoa-hoa. Google quietly released its HTML 5-optimized Google Music web app a few moments ago on Twitter. And—surprise, surprise—it’s a thing of beauty, dare I say a bit Android-feeling.

Amazon, Walmart and Others Build Web Apps to Sidestep Apple Rules

And so it begins.

Mozilla Firefox 4 Hits The Streets Today

Internet Explorer 9 may have gotten all of the attention a few weeks ago, but let the browser wars begin because the final release of Firefox 4 makes its appearance today.

Adobe Helps Turn Flash into HTML5, Targets Apple Devices

This article has been cross-posted from our partner site, Technologizer.

Facebook Names Mobile The Number One Priority in 2011

Facebook had their own pseudo-State of the Union at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco, Calif. where they discussed the biggest concerns and changes for the company. Number one on their list was improving mobile functionality according to Chief Technical Officer Bret Taylor. More than 200 million people are accessing Facebook on their phones each day, and they’re [...]

Daily Dose

“A Mario Brother never says ‘can’t’, Luigi!” - Mario from The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3

Google Chrome Experiments With The Wilderness Downtown

It’s about time that someone created a film that enhanced your watching-videos-at-work experience.

New YouTube Mobile Site Handles HTML5 Quite Nicely

Goodbye, YouTube apps on my iPhone and Android devices. The fine folks at YouTube have put together a nicely revamped mobile site at m.youtube.com that works with a fair amount of smartphones, leveraging HTML5 videos instead of Flash videos.

Adobe Goes After Apple In New Ad Campaign

Depending on the sites that you frequent today or the newspapers you read, you might see a few ads from Adobe professing their love of Apple and Choice. The ongoing feud between Adobe and Apple over Flash vs HTML5 will go on for some time, but Adobe is making it clear that Apple and Steve [...]

iPad Content Roundup pt. 2

Let me apologize in advance for our moderately heavy iPad coverage, but this is what’s popular and actually worth talking about in tech right now.