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GoGo Goes for IPO

Lauren Goode in News on December 23, 2011 at 8:57 am PT

Stock symbol? You guessed it: GOGO.

Adobe Scrapping Flash for TV, Too‎

John Paczkowski in Mobile on November 10, 2011 at 3:17 am PT

“The right approach to deliver content on televisions is through applications, not a Web browsing experience.”

Adobe Admits It Is Saying Buh-Bye to Flash for Mobile Devices

Kara Swisher in Mobile on November 9, 2011 at 10:15 am PT

Looks like Apple’s Steve Jobs was right (as usual).

Horse Flash: Apple’s Steve Jobs on Adobe Vendetta in 2010 at D8 (Video)

Kara Swisher in Mobile on November 9, 2011 at 9:30 am PT

Why Apple put the popular software technology out to pasture.

Zipline Games Offers a Speedier Way to Market for Mobile Games

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 4, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

Seattle-based Zipline Games, which operates out of Seattle’s Founder’s Co-op, has developed Moai platform, which will enable mobile games to run more seamlessly across iPhone and Android using Amazon’s Web services.

RIM Shares a Page From Its PlayBook

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 7, 2010 at 4:36 pm PT

Research In Motion CEO Mike Lazaridis arrived at D: Dive Into Mobile with more than just his BlackBerry–he also showed off various features of RIM’s forthcoming PlayBook tablet, including the ability to play Adobe Air applications. “It’s really simple to use, very fluid,” Lazaridis said, demonstrating various Adobe Air apps, a Flash-based calculator and revamped versions of the productivity applications RIM got through its acquisition of DataViz. He also showed the device’s multitasking capabilities, with 1080p video running alongside other applications.

Adobe + Android + Tablet + Flash = Interesting

Peter Kafka in Media on May 5, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Shunned by Apple, Adobe makes it clear it has an ally in Google.

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Talks About Apple Insults, Flash's Future and More!

Kara Swisher in News on February 17, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

For a man scorned, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch looked awfully calm on my visit to the software company’s San Francisco HQ yesterday. He could, I suppose, be hopping mad, especially after Apple CEO Steve Jobs publicly dissed Adobe as “lazy” and its Flash software a buggy security nightmare and resource hairball. Apple, ahem, will not be using Flash technology in its new iPad tablet. Still, with new announcements related to smartphones and e-readers, Adobe and Lynch continue to press forward to keep Flash’s future bright.

Wired Comes to the iPad, Version 2.0

Peter Kafka in Media on February 16, 2010 at 10:36 am PT

We’ve seen the iPad. And we’ve seen what some magazine people think their stuff might look like once it gets to the wonderdevice. But what will it really look like? Here’s a more informed guess, via Condé Nast’s Wired magazine, which has been working on an iPad-compatible version of the title for many months.

More Stuff You Won’t See on Tablet Day: Condé Nast Magazines

Peter Kafka in Media on January 25, 2010 at 10:22 am PT

I got a great glimpse of the future of magazines last week. It’s the March issue of Wired, transformed into a digital edition that takes full advantage of the Apple tablet we’re going to see on Wednesday. But you’re not going to be able to buy a tabletized Wired for some time: Condé Nast, like most would-be Apple media partners, simply doesn’t know that much about the device yet.