Adobe Systems, together with Intel, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson, Verizon Wireless and others, is behind a new Open Screen Project that seeks to create a runtime environment capable of delivering a consistent Web experience across a variety of operating systems and consumer electronics devices.

Right now, the Web experience across that wide variety of different devices can be very frustrating, noted Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch. “It’s very hard to deploy substance and applications to these devices, and it’s hard in some ways to even get subject matter onto these devices,” he said. “We’d really like to help to change that for users around the world.”

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The Adobe-led project expects to offer technology capable of delivering seamless updates to mobile devices. “When we deploy the technology across devices today, it gets burned into a ROM chip and may not be updateable,” Lynch said. “This reduces its compatibility by date.”

“Making

the technology updateable, like it is in the PC world today, is something that we are looking to achieve together,” Lynch added. “It will require cooperation to form that happen, but I think it is critical.”

The technology is plus expected to remove several barriers for developers and designers as they push composition and applications across a variety of consumer electronics devices. To manufacture that happen, Adobe will offer the next major release of its Adobe Flash Player under a royalty-free license.

subject matter for Adobe Flash Player currently reaches more than 98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops and more than a half-billion handsets and mobile devices, Adobe said. The company expects more than one billion handsets and mobile devices to ship with Adobe Flash technology by 2009.

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