That faint sound you hear is Steve Jobs chuckling. A new BlackBerry PlayBook update is coming this week to fix another security Flash security issue. Adobe pushed out an update for Flash Player last week to deal with a nasty cross-site scripting vulnerability and the PlayBook needs to catch up.
Read on for details of how RIM is rushing the BlackBerry PlayBook OS update out to deal with the Flash issue…
It’s the end of Monday – congratulations, you’ve made it through the longest day of the week. If you’ve been in meetings all arvo, take a peek at what you missed here in our teatime tech roundup.
Today saw the launch of Adobe’s new Photoshop iPad apps – yup, not one, but three new programs that harness the power of a multitouch screen along with your existing PC’s processing horsepower. While each is worthy of note on its own, taken as a whole they serve to underline an even bigger shift in computing: tablets aren’t going to kill your PC, they’re going to kill your mouse.
Ho hum, it’s lunchtime already. Let’s celebrate by tucking into a feast of all this morning’s headlines. They’re right here ready and waiting for you in the lunchtime lowdown.
While Photoshop Express has been on the iPad for a while, the arrival of the iPad 2 seems to have moved along plans at Adobe to get a fully-featured iPad Photoshop app out.
It demoed the iPad Photoshop app during the Photoshop World 2011 keynote with lots of cool looking interactions and layer animations on show. You can see part of the demo, filmed by PhotographyBay, after the break. There’s no release date or pricing for the iPad Photoshop app just yet sadly.
Android has certainly emerged as Motorola Mobility’s primary focus over the past two years. However, according to a report from Information Week, the company might be hedging its bet on Android as it hopes to launch its own web-based OS in the near future. Officially, Motorola has neither denied nor confirmed the existence of such project.
The Advent Vega was released to a storm of good reviews (including one from us here at Electricpig). It was a cheap, basic Android tablet that worked. Then it all went a bit wonky as the Flash plugin turned out not to be properly certified by Adobe, and so Advent had to yank the Vega’s Flash skills from then on – a pity, since it worked just fine in our testing.
There’s now a download available for people who ended up with an Advent Vega sans Flash, but there’s a new version of the Advent Vega with certified Flash pre-installed too. The difference? A fiver. That’s for the inconvenience of having to plug in and download an update when you get home. Fair or not? Read on…
