BSquare to port Adobe Flash to Android

Software solutions provider BSquare announced it will port Adobe's Flash technology onto Google's Android mobile platform for an unspecified global Tier 1 carrier. According to BSquare, Flash technology presently ships on more than 800 million devices worldwide (not including Apple's iPhone, of course), and is used by over a million developers to create video and rich media applications. Roughly a year ago, BSquare acquired NEC America's Adobe Flash Technology Consulting and Distribution business, and in that time the firm has worked on more than 40 different customer devices including handsets, set top boxes, digital signage, consumer devices and netbooks. BSquare adds that it has built an Android competency in its professional engineering services group via multiple customer engagements.

Late last year, during an appearance at the Adobe MAX developer conference in San Francisco, Google's director of mobile platforms Andy Rubin and Adobe Systems CTO Kevin Lynch announced the firms are collaborating to bring Adobe Flash technology to the Android OS, illustrating their progress with a demo of Flash running on a HTC G1 handset. Adobe Flash already runs on multiple platforms including Symbian, SonyEricsson, Windows Mobile and Linux.

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