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• Today in Tech: Adobe layoffs, gives up on Flash mobile?

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  *Adobe (ADBE) is restructuring and laying off 750 employees in North America and Europe. Also, sources tell ZDNet that the company is stopping development on Flash Player for mobile browsers and focusing its efforts instead on mobile apps, desktop content, and HTML5. That last bit about HTML5 may cause some Apple MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 9, 2011 4:50 AM ET
  Posted in: Adobe, Adobe Systems, Apple, Facebook, Google, Kindle Fire, Meg Whitman, Olympus, Steve Jobs

• FatWire will help put Oracle in front of customers

  Is Oracle getting into the acqhiring game?

  FORTUNE -- Oracle's (ORCL)  acquisition of FatWire is all about the company putting itself in front of end customers. That is, it's more or less a retail play.

  FatWire is a "customer experience management company," which means that it helps businesses make their online services work better. Its products include content management, community forums, mobile platforms and the like. ReadWriteWeb says Oracle is "deepening its MORE

  Dan Mitchell, contributor - Jun 22, 2011 12:28 PM ET
  Posted in: Adobe Systems, Day Software, FatWire, Hewlett-Packard, Itanium, Mark Hurd, Oracle Corporation, ReadWriteWeb

• Google fixes Flash's security issues ahead of Adobe

  Google's record on Chrome browser security is impressive, and that is important.

  Google (GOOG) today fixed the recent Adobe (ADBE) Flash Zero-day exploit in which a devious hacker could embed a malicious Flash file in an Excel document and if opened could compromise Windows-based computers.  Microsoft says that Office 2010 users aren't vulnerable.  Apple's (AAPL) Macintosh users  are not vulnerable to this particular attack either, though others could be developed using this MORE

  Seth Weintraub - Mar 21, 2011 12:59 PM ET
  Posted in: Adobe Systems, AdobeFlashPlayer, Apple Inc., Google, Google Chrome, Microsoft, Webkit, Zero-day attack

• Motorola XOOM gets Flash next week

  The XOOM software experience seems to be coming piecemeal.

  Motorola's (MMI) XOOM, by most accounts, would be the best tablet you could buy right now if it weren't for Apple's (AAPL) year+ lead in building ARM-based experiences.  That being said, Motorola does offer some advantages over the product from Cupertino.  One of these advantages is the ability to play Flash on a 10-inch screen.  Unfortunately for Motorola and Google (GOOG), that MORE

  Seth Weintraub - Mar 11, 2011 11:13 AM ET
  Posted in: Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Systems, Android, Apple, Google, iPad, Motorola, MotorolaXoom

• Adobe's Flash isn't ready for Android Honeycomb tablets

  Initial Android Honeycomb Tablets will ship without Adobe's Flash (and that might be good!).

  First spotted yesterday in the lower right hand corner of Verizon's (VZ) XOOM ad, Adobe's Flash will not be shipping on the first Android tablets to hit the market this week.

  Adobe (ADBE) this morning acknowledged that it wouldn't be shipping Flash in some of the initial Honeycomb tablets.

  Adobe will offer Flash Player 10.2 pre-installed on some tablets and MORE

  Seth Weintraub - Feb 22, 2011 3:03 PM ET
  Posted in: Adobe Flash, Adobe Systems, Android, Google, Motorola Xoom, Nvidia Tegra

• How the Mac App store could blow up the software market

  Every application developer from Microsoft to the shareware maker in the basement is watching to see how Apple's forthcoming OSX application store will change the dynamics of the software industry.

  By John Patrick Pullen, contributor

  This time of year, the vision of elves working away in Santa's workshop is on the minds of many — especially Mac application programmers. That's because for them, with the rumored impending launch of the Mac App MORE

  Dec 9, 2010 1:02 PM ET
  Posted in: Adobe Systems, App Store, Apple, Application programming interface, IOS (Apple), iWork, Mac OS, Rogue Amoeba, Wil Shipley

• Why rivals Google and Apple agree on HTML5

  The two tech giants need to fend off rivals and each other to protect their growing app businesses. So why is the same open standard their weapon of choice?

  We've already debunked the mysteries surrounding HTML5 itself -- the pros, cons and progress -- but one pesky question remains. Namely, what do Google and Apple, two companies that obviously thrive off sales and earnings, have to gain by backing a free-for-all MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 6, 2010 4:37 PM ET
  Posted in: Adobe Systems, Apple, GOOG, Google, Google Chrome OS, IBM, iOS, iTunes, Mac OS X, Microsoft, MSFT, YouTube

• RIM to Apple: Bring it on!

  It's the PlayBook vs. the iPad in a side-by-side video comparison

  Research in Motion (RIMM) has posted a YouTube video in which Apple's (AAPL) iPad compares unfavorably to RIM's new PlayBook tablet in terms of browser speed, HTML5 performance and, duh, Adobe (ADBE) Flash support.

  One comparison not mentioned in the video: The iPad has shipped. The PlayBook has not.

  Here's the link.

  [Follow Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Twitter @philiped]

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 16, 2010 9:50 AM ET
  Posted in: Adobe Flash, Adobe Systems, Apple, iPad, PlayBook, Research in Motion, Tablets