(CNN) -- Adobe has officially killed off Flash Player, the buggy, hated, security vulnerability of a web browser plug-in that was once widely used for viewing rich content like games, videos and other ...

New betas of Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, and Flash's open-source Flex underpinnings give Adobe a better response to Web apps and Microsoft's Silverlight. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

After 24 years, Adobe Flash Player — the once-ubiquitous utility that fueled the Internet's transformation from text-only to a multimedia bonanza — is heading into the sunset. Adobe this week issued ...

Even with Microsoft's vote of no confidence in plug-ins with Windows 8's IE10 browser, Adobe believes Flash still has a role. But it's also working on Web standards. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

In May, Google circulated a draft proposal to effectively kill Adobe Flash by blocking the plugin and prioritizing HTML5 by the end of the year. The company is going ahead with that plan to ...

Adobe has released Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The company has been pushing out release candidates for the last few months, but now the Flash plugin is officially ready for prime ...

Flash Player will reach its end of life (EOL) on January 1, 2021, after always being a security risk to those who have used it over the years. The demise of Adobe's multimedia software platform was ...

HTML5, with its promises of plug-in free browsing, a 3D graphics and animation API, built-in video and audio tags, an offline data store, and Web Workers to manage long-running background processes, ...

If you’ve ever been frustrated by visiting a website on your smartphone or tablet and finding it won’t work because it uses Flash, you’ll welcome the latest Google initiative: it is now flagging Flash ...

Flash, it's been a good run. We've had a lot of fun together, but it's time to get some distance... permanently. That doesn't erase my fond memories of playing together back in the day, but we both ...

Everyone was afraid of the "Y2K bug" that would leave un-patched systems in a quandary, but January 1, 2000 came and went with hardly a whimper. Instead, it's January 12, 2021 that will live in infamy ...

Adobe Flash was one of the game-changing technology that was rolled out decades ago. It was so popular that Internet veterans would remember downloading it from time to time, especially that many ...