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• HTML5: An open standard to rule them all?

  By Faraz Syed, president, Keynote DeviceAnywhere | 22 February, 2012 06:26

  Although vendor-written, this contributed piece does not advocate a position that is particular to the author's employer and has been edited and approved by Network World editors.

• NeuroSky MindWave: Fun with Brainwaves

  By Mark Gibbs | 10 February, 2012 11:29

  In last week's Gearhead I discussed, in part, the science of electroencephalography or EEG … the detection and measurement of the neurological activity of the brain via electrodes attached to a subject's scalp.

• Developers turn to Google’s Android over Apple’s iOS: Ovum

  By Patrick Budmar | 23 January, 2012 14:11

  Asia-Pacific software developers show an increasing preference for Google’s popular smartphone platform, but Apple’s iOS still retains its popularity

• Adobe: The popularity of apps eliminated the need for Flash mobile

  By Patrick Budmar | 28 November, 2011 15:53

  Adobe found that users with mobile devices such as smartphone and tablets are mostly consuming rich and interactive content through applications

• Adobe: Flash for Ice Cream Sandwich by year-end

  By Jared Newman | 22 November, 2011 04:42

  Adobe's plans to stop developing mobile Flash Player will have to wait a little longer, as the company works on bringing Flash to Android Ice Cream Sandwich.

• RIP Adobe mobile Flash: Will anyone miss you?

  By Daniel Ionescu | 10 November, 2011 04:23

  It may be the end of the line for Adobe's mobile Flash Player, but the question now is will anyone care if and when it's gone?

• Adobe explains ditching Flash for mobile

  By Matt Hamblen | 10 November, 2011 04:16

  Adobe Systems said Wednesday it is abandoning the Flash Player in future mobile browsers to focus on HTML5, a decision that immediately ignited concerns among mobile app developers, many of whom are working with Android apps.

• Adobe to fix Flash flaw that allows webcam spying

  By Lucian Constantin | 21 October, 2011 01:18

  Adobe is working on a fix for a Flash Player vulnerability that can be exploited via clickjacking techniques to turn on people's webcams or microphones without their knowledge.

• Adobe advances entertainment apps for TVs

  By Hafizah Osman | 10 October, 2011 10:16

  Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced that LG and TiVo have become the latest partners to bring Adobe Flash-based applications via Adobe AIR to connect their TVs and digital home devices.

• How to convert PowerPoint to Flash

  By Staff Writers | 15 September, 2011 09:49

  We look at several different ways that you can convert PowerPoint to Flash

• Getting the most out of flash storage

  By Gary Orenstein, vice president of product and technical marketing, Fusion-io | 14 September, 2011 07:30

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• PRODUCTS: The latest from Astaro, Norton, Adobe and Quantum

  By Nermin Bajric | 13 September, 2011 09:33

  Includes news on unified threat management software, security initiatives, flash media servers and backup recovery

• UPDATED: Parallels delivers Desktop 7 for Mac

  By Hafizah Osman | 05 September, 2011 15:51

  Cloud services enablement and desktop virtualisation provider, Parallels, has launched the latest version of Parallels Desktop 7 (PD7) for Mac, software that runs Windows applications on Mac.

• HP or no HP: The PC lives

  By Ian Paul | 21 August, 2011 06:41

  Suggestions that the PC is dead are greatly exaggerated. Flexibility, innovation and users' storage needs will keep it around a good long while.

• Deja vu all over again: Adobe reveals new Flash Zero day

  By Tony Bradley | 13 April, 2011 00:41

  Do not adjust your Web browser. This may look like an identical post to the one from four weeks ago announcing a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash, but it's actually a new one.