Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Widely used technologies take a long time to fade. Adobe's move this week to rename Flash Professional is only one nail in its coffin. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Adobe Flash had a more than 20-year run as a major piece of multimedia software. But that is coming to an end. Browsers like Google Chrome are unplugging Flash. Google announced in 2017 that over the ...

On December 31, Adobe’s Flash will shutdown. This comes as no surprise, since its demise was announced in 2016, and browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Safari have already disabled it by default. Less ...