Adobe Forges Flash Alliance With Chip, Mobile-Phone Companies

, shaper of the Flash
video software, forged an confederation with chipmakers and mobile
phone companies to do it easier to make applications that
work across personal computers, mobile-phones and set-top boxes.

, Nokia Oyj, Samsung Electronics Co., Qualcomm
Inc. and Sony Ericsson Mobile River Communications Ltd. are among the
companies in the Open Screen Project, Adobe said yesterday in an
e-mailed statement.

The undertaking will let application developers to create
programs that work on devices from different companies. To help
promote Flash, Adobe said it will take some limitations on the
software and end licensing fees.

''The thought is to compose an application that doesn't have got to
be tweaked to run on the different devices,'' ,
general director of Adobe's mobile group, said in an interview.

Adobe said in March that its Flash Lite software, which lets
mobile devices show Web-based picture and animation, is
available on more than than 500 million French telephones worldwide. The
company anticipates to attain 1 billion devices by the center of next
year, Kovacs said.

Cisco Systems Inc., LG Electronics Inc., Motorola Inc.,
Toshiba Corp. and Verizon Radio are also portion of the project,
Adobe said. The company have signed up content suppliers such as as
the British Broadcast Media Corp. and Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks.

Microsoft Menace

Adobe, based in San Jose, California, confronts new in the
mobile-video market from Microsoft Corp., the world's largest
software maker. Microsoft said in March that Nokia would pre-
install its Silverlight picture software system on smart phones.

Apple Inc. Head Executive Military Officer said in March
that Adobe's Flash runs too slowly to be utile on Apple's
iPhone, and that Flash Lite ''isn't capable adequate to actually be
used with the Web.'' Jobs said Adobe necessitates to develop a third
version of Flash with characteristics that autumn between the personal computer version
and Flash Lite.

Kovacs declined to state if Adobe is working on such as a
product.

''Adobe desires Flash to be as omnipresent on the French telephone as it
is on the PC,'' said , an analyst at
JupiterResearch in New York. ''They volition desire to add Apple to the
list of companies they work with.''

Adobe drop 47 cents to $37.29 yesterday in Nasdaq Stock
Market . The shares have got declined 13 percentage this year.

To reach the newsman on this story:
in San Francisco at
.