Media Technology: Adobe and Apple Reach a Flash Point
21 June 2010
BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty.
FAITH LAPIDUS: And I’m Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell about two very different subjects. First, we will describe some recent developments in media technology. Later, we will tell why animals once thought to have disappeared have been returning to the wild.
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BOB DOUGHTY: Mobile communications devices could be the testing ground for the next generation of media technology for the World Wide Web. If you ever looked at pictures or video on the Web, you already know Adobe Flash Player. It is a program for playing videos and media that operates on many different Web browsers.
Right now, Adobe Flash Player is probably the most common way to watch media on the Internet. But new mobile devices are testing Flash’s market position. The research company IDC says fifty-five million smartphones were sold worldwide in the first three months of this year. The handheld devices serve as a telephone and as an e-mail and Web connection.
But there is something few of them can do: use Adobe Flash Player. Instead, if you attempt to open a Flash page, you get what has become known as "the blue Lego of death." The little blue sign means that your device cannot open Flash.
FAITH LAPIDUS: Smartphones and netbooks have different browsers from those found on personal computers. And, at least for now, few of them can play Flash.
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