Apparently Adobe isn’t the only one that realizes browser based plugins for rich media (read: the impending death of Flash on mobile) are dead. According to the Verge whom cites Mary Jo Foley whom herself cites multiple sources, Microsoft will officially abandon their Flash competitor, Silverlight, after the next Silverlight 5 release rumored to drop around late November. Given the wide ranging support for HTML5 as well as previous comments by Microsoft that...

WinMo and Windows Phone users hoping for a little mobile Firefox love thanks to the exceptionally good looking (and performing) “Fennec” will be utterly depressed to the point of no return this morning to learn that the mobile Firefox team has canceled any and all work on the mobile Microsoft build. They chalk it up to Microsoft’s new development rules going into Windows Phone 7, namely the restriction on apps running in native code, instead requiring...

Without any filler or hesitation, there are two big pieces of information that all of the CrackBerry addicts out in internet land need to know: First: RIM is planning on adding FULL Flash and SilverLight support into the BlackBerry browser. Now, re-read that…planned is the keyword. According to various BGR insiders with seeds planted inside of RIM, next summer appears to be the rough guestemation date of a possible release on said support. As has been mentioned...

Flash has long been the holy grail if you will of the mobile internet world.  If a handset manufacturer and mobile OS developer can get flash, they’ve got an instant hit…more or less.  Even the almighty iPhone lacks flash.  Though, Jobs claimed it was of poor performance that didn’t meet their stict requirements for a desierable user experience.  Microsoft has long been in development of a flash fighter dubbed “Silverlight”.  This inhouse...