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Flash Lite ported to the iPhone
Interactive designer Thomas Joos has ported Flash Lite code to the iPhone, opening up the possibility of iPhone applications that can use Flash.
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Praise for latest Flash Player on Mac and Linux
Adobe released Flash Player 10 beta 2 last week and has already received praise from the Linux and Mac community. Practical-Tech.com give an in-depth look at the Linux release, whereas MacRumors.com wonder if the 3-fold increase in performance on the Mac is paving the way for Flash on the iPhone.

Google and Yahoo Now Index Flash
Adobe have announced that they are providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the .swf Flash file format and uncover information that is currently not indexed by search engines.

“Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player technology.” -Google.

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Adobe Flash CS4 Preview
A couple of weeks old now, but here is a sneak peek at Adobe Flash CS4 presented by Adobe themselves at the Sydney, Australia WebDu conference.
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