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Recently, we covered the announcement of HTC's Hero smartphone, and Adobe's partnership with HTC to make sure that the Hero runs Flash technology. According to Adobe, over 80 percent of all videos delivered online are based on Flash, and users of the Hero will be able to watch YouTube and other video content seamlessly on their smartphones. Now, Bsquare has announced the development of an Adobe Flash browser plug-in for ARM-based devices running Google?s Android 1.5 ?Cupcake? platform. BSquare's port of Flash technology is likely to be adopted by many of the companies delivering Android-based smartphones and netbooks this year.?

Yesterday, we covered the announcement of HTC's Hero smartphone with its slick, customizable new HTC Sense interface. The phone runs the open source Android operating system, and is a thin touch phone with no physical keyboard. Now, Adobe has announced that it is working with HTC to make sure that the Hero can run Flash. That means that the many Flash elements and components on the web will run smoothly on the Hero, users will be able to watch YouTube and many other videos and video shows, and more.