It could go from bad to worse for Applied Materials Inc.
An upcoming version of Adobe's Creative Suite developer tools will let Flash developers export their projects as iPhone apps, Adobe announced at their MAX conference on Monday.
After a record-setting week of Microsoft and Adobe security patches, Oracle is gearing up for a major update of its own next week.
Next Tuesday, the database vendor will release its quarterly Critical Patch Update, which "contains 38 security vulnerability fixes across hundreds of Oracle products," according to an advance notification posted to Oracle's Web site.
Adobe plans to take advantage of the private-browsing modes in most recent browsers and adapt them to Flash 10.1, which is due sometime soon, the company revealed in a document posted this week.
Adobe has weighed in on the Apple iPad, criticizing the device for a lack of support for its Flash technology. However, its own workaround isn't quite finished.