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Adobe Flash Player 11
What is Flash Player?
Adobe® Flash® Player is a cross-platform, browser-based application runtime that provides uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across browsers and operating systems.
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Stage 3D accelerated graphics rendering*
Explore a new architecture for high-performance 2D/3D GPU hardware accelerated graphics rendering by Adobe, which provides low-level Stage3D APIs for advanced rendering in apps and gives framework developers classes of interactive experiences.
*Initial support for personal computers.
Native 64-bit support
Flash Player can now take advantage of native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux®, Mac OS, and Windows®.
H.264/AVC software encoding for cameras
Stream beautiful video from your computer's camera with higher compression efficiency and industry-wide support, enabling both high-quality real-time communications (such as video chat and video conferencing) and live video broadcasts.
Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS)
Protect streaming video across devices without the complexity of a license server.
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| 12/20/2011 | Q&A with SparkChess’ Armand Niculescu |
| 12/09/2011 | FarmVille Features Flash Animation in Holiday Film |
| 12/01/2011 | Developers: Game On! |
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| 02/18/2012 | Mammoot Control |
| 02/16/2012 | Nespresso - Who Else? |
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Frima Studio
Frima Studio brings its Zombie Tycoon game console to browsers using new capabilities in the Flash Platform to deliver astonishing 3D experiences to a vast new audience.
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