A Flash flaw discovered this month could change the face of Web security by allowing criminals to infect users of any browser or operating system with malware without making their browser or application crash.
The next version of Flash Player will support high-definition MPEG 4 video compression standard H.264.
Notebooks with solid state drives (flash-based) cost more than traditional hard drives, are "an order of magnitude" less reliable and do not perform as well when using Microsoft Outlook.
Adobe Systems has released Adobe Media Player (AMP), a free download for playing Flash-based Web videos on Macs or PCs.
Adobe Media Player, set for release later this year, can play back downloaded video files, rather than browser-based video streams.
Defhead.com chooses music acts, invite them to play at an inner-city Sydney venue and Webcast the show live to their Web site visitors. Here is some behind-the-scenes footage of the night as well as an interview with the lead singer of Something With Numbers.
Channel 10's threadbare online presence stands out among the other TV networks' swish Web sites. But why?
Here's the way things work at Microsoft. After correcting shortcomings in the first and second editions of its software, version 3.0 of a Microsoft product usually silences the company's worst critics, allowing management to get on with business of crushing rivals. But I'll be first to acknowledge that Silverlight breaks with that pattern.
So Silverlight will kill Flash, will it? Maybe it will. A lot of people have told me this and I began to wonder if the opinion had any validity. It took me less than 15 minutes of research to determine that it may not kill Flash but it will most definitely do it some serious market damage. Why?
Making predictions about the storage market isn't difficult. Suggest that capacities will go up and costs will go down and you shouldn't go too far wrong.
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory
The explosion in drive-by download attacks continues to grow. How has the situation got so dangerous? Are there any "trusted" Web sites left?
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Macromedia's Director Shockwave Studio is the Swiss army knife of multimedia development tools. Its native programming language, Lingo, supports 2D shapes and animation, streaming audio, bitmap and vector images, video, Flash animations, and interactive programming with its language. Version 8.5 adds the ability to deliver 3D content and streamed RealAudio and RealVideo. No other package on the market can claim this breadth of support.
Although there are some design quirks, the Samsung Omnia promises to be a solid alternative to Apple's iPhone.
Adobe's Media Player is an excellent application that is beautifully designed and easy to use. Shame about the currently available content.
Samsung's official phone of the Olympic games may not look especially sporty, but HSDPA, lag-free performance, and its great 5-megapixel camera help get the U900 out of the blocks and over the line.
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