Yahoo Adds Flash to Widget Platform

by admin November 30, 2007 at 1:50 pm

Yahoo upgrades its Yahoo Widgets platform that accommodates Adobe’s Flash multimedia display technology.

Yahoo is releasing an upgrade to its Yahoo Widgets platform that accommodates Adobe’s Flash multimedia display technology.

Widgets are lightweight applications that provide desktop access to various types of content, such as news feeds or reminders. Featured in the upgrade is a new version of the Yahoo Widget Engine, which is a runtime environment that allows the widgets to run on a desktop, and an updated Yahoo Widget Gallery, offering more than 4,000 widgets, Yahoo said.

Read more: pcworld.com