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Adobe updates Flash and Photoshop for Android

Two big updates from Adobe are now ready for Android devices.

Last night, Adobe Blogger John Nack posted that Flash 10.1 Beta 3 is now available in the Android Market or from here if you are running Android 2.2 Froyo (which is likely only Nexus One users, a few other hackers out there, and maybe some Droid 2/x beta testers?).

Additionally, a new release of the Photoshop.com Mobile app just hit MORE

Probing the Apple antitrust probes

Apple is likely to duck these bullets, say two analysts, but every case increases its risk

Absent a "smoking gun," neither the Federal Trade Commission nor the Department of Justice is likely to take Apple (AAPL) to court for antitrust violations, according to a note to clients issued Friday by Stifel Nicolas's Rebecca Arbogast and George Askew.

Apple has credible justifications, they write, for both complaints that have been lodged against it: MORE

Adobe tries to upstage Steve Jobs

Using an independent advertising platform to get Flash in the iPhone and iPad's back door

Here's an odd twist.

In a press statement scheduled for release two hours before Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote, Adobe (ADBE) has announced that it is teaming up with an independent mobile advertising network to bring advertisements written in Flash to a variety of mobile devices, including Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and iPad and Google's (GOOG) Android phones.

According to MORE

Tech's 10 greatest blind spots

From Apple to Yahoo, Silicon Alley Insider spots the Achilles' heels

Here's an interesting exercise. Rather than look at what America's leading tech companies do best, why not focus on what they do worst? That's what SAI's Jay Yarow has done in a gallery posted Wednesday. The headlines:

Google (GOOG) doesn't get social
Apple (AAPL) doesn't get the cloud
Twitter's weakness is good product
Facebook underestimates the importance of privacy
Microsoft (MSFT) doesn't get the Web
AOL MORE

Steve Jobs live (sort of) at D8

Notes from from an Apple watcher stuck on the wrong coast

Apple's (AAPL) CEO was scheduled to give the 6 p.m. PDT keynote at All Things Digital Tuesday night, but the show is running late and rumor has it that he's been pre-empted, at least temporarily, by Rupert Murdoch. Makes sense. Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher may think this is their show, but Murdoch -- as CEO of the News Corp. MORE

Steve Jobs: "Freedom from porn"

"Traditional PC folks feel their world is slipping away," says Apple's CEO. "It is."

Kudos to Valleywag's Ryan Tate for posting in full his bizarre late-night alcohol-induced e-mail debate with Steve Jobs, given -- as he is the first to admit -- how bad some of the things he wrote make him look. (He drops names he shouldn't, he can't seem to spell Cocoa correctly, and he'll have hell to MORE

Why Adobe shouldn't give a $&*# about Apple

Despite Apple's public denouncement of Flash, its creator is about to have a banner year

By JP Mangalindan, reporter

Steve Jobs may have written his paean to the public, explaining why he feels it's time to leave Adobe's Flash to the dustbin of history, but the relegation seems premature. In fact, the record shows that consumers have been overlooking the lack of Flash support on Apple's mobile device for years. MORE

26% of Web video is now iPad-ready

Up from 10% four months ago, according to a new survey

How's Steve Jobs' campaign against Adobe (ADBE) Flash progressing? The bar chart at right offers one measure.

It comes from Mefeedia, a media search website that indexes video from a wide variety of sources -- from CBS and ABC to YouTube and Hulu, some 30,000 sources in all.

From time to time Mefeedia analyzes its index to look for trends. One of MORE

Techmate: Is Apple trying to kill Adobe?

In the latest episode of Techmate, Jon and Michael analyze the ongoing war between Apple (AAPL) and Adobe (ADBE) plus a surprise appearance by Hello Kitty.

Robert Reich comes to Apple's defense

Apple isn't the problem, says Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor. Big banks are the problem.

"Why is the Federal Trade Commission threatening Apple with a possible lawsuit for abusing its economic power, but not even raising an eyebrow about the huge and growing economic (and political) muscle of JP Morgan Chase or any of the other four remaining giant banks on Wall Street?"

So begins a spirited defense of MORE