Interesting move from Californian firm Adobe this week with their announcement that they will not be continuing the support of Flash on Android from Jelly Bean 4.1 onwards. This interesting move reflects that of Apple, who also refused support of the aging standard (for which Jobs had a personal vendetta) in iOS. Not all hope is lost for rich Internet media, however, with Adobe promising increased support for their HTML5 platform, Adobe Air.

There has been a lot of chatter online about the security implications about the discontinuation of Flash. Tim Armstrong, a researcher for Kaspersky Labs has come out saying “There hasn’t been a piece of malware using the Flash Player technology as a vector.” That however, does not …

It wasn’t a big one, but today Adobe pushed a sneaky update for Flash for Android over the Google Play Store. This interesting move comes in the face of their reports a few months ago that the California based company would be discontinuing their support of Flash on mobile devices.

The update is only going to make a difference to those running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and didn’t even show up in the New Apps section of the Play Store. The only way to find out what actually changed was to check out the Adobe release notes. Pretty much, all the release includes is some critical security patches for 2.3, 3.0 and 4.0, as well as some performance …