Pretty cool news.

Adobe Wins Prestigious Industry Award
Adobe Flash Lite Receives First Spike TV award for Innovation in Mobile Gaming
SAN JOSE, Calif. — December 12, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that its Flash Lite software received the first Spike TV award for Innovation in Mobile Gaming at Spike’s Video Game Awards Ceremony. The [...]

iRiver has some new info about it’s latest Personal Media Player (PMP), the iRiver W7.
Looks like a pretty sweet device, and supports: Video, E-dictionary, Movie, E-Book, Touch & Jog, Flash (Games), and even more features!
All the tech specs are available … if you look; note the Flash Lite 2.0 player on board this [...]

I was at FlexCamp Boston last Friday … and it occured to me (yet again) that I should be posting about this … as it has been regular occurence at conferences, and needs to be addressed.
These two “typical” (U.S.) event photos reminded me a bit of the game: “Where’s Waldo?”.
Note: In photo #1, [...]

In Japan, there’s a new mobile service called Chipuya Town.
It’s a virtual world accessible on Flash enabled keitai. Users can create avatars in a virtual 2-D world that represents Tokyo’s Shibuya shopping district.
Essentially it’s a Flash based MMORPG targeted at younger Japanese women. Within the world players socialize with each other, and attain “Groove” [...]

I created a really quick mobile guide for Flex Camp Boston tomorrow. A few hours of work.
Because it is in not in final state, I will not be posting source, quite yet.
However, if you are at the event, and I attend (I’m planning on it … but I am kind of sick right now), [...]

Via Alessandro … here’s yet another webinar, on the business side of mobile.
Forum Nokia has a session scheduled entitled: “Generating Revenue with Flash Content and Services” scheduled for Dec 13th, 2007 (12pm London, 2pm Helsinki, 9pm Tokyo).
Here are the details:

Session:
Generating Revenue with Flash Content and Services
Description:
More than one billion Flash-enabled mobile devices are expected to [...]

Here is an upcoming event scheduled for Dec 12th 2007 entitled: “Getting Paid for Mobile Content” that may be of interest:

Session:
“Getting Paid for Mobile Content”
Host:
Scott Raynovich, Editorial Director, Light Reading; Rich Wong, Partner, Accel; Jason Spero, Vice President of Marketing, AdMob; Lou Volpano,
Founder, Ascertain-Ment
Date:
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Time:
1:00 p.m. New York / 6:00 p.m. London
Overview:
How will [...]

I noticed Handango launched a new look and feel to their site as part of their 9th anniversary. Check it out.

I haven’t really checked MXNA today, but I’ve seen some evidence posted in a few places leading me to believe it’s Adobe’s “25th” today … ironically, it’s also my birthday. Happy b-day to us?
I won’t post my history, it’s quite boring.
Here’s Adobe’s, instead:

EARLY HISTORY: WARNOCK AND GESCHKE
Adobe Systems Inc. was founded in 1982 [...]

Mark had a recent post about the LG Viewty KU990 on his blog.
Like it’s distinct cousin, the LG Prada, this much more camera centric device also sports at least some Flash Lite UI.
I don’t know what is and isn’t Flash Lite, but you can check out some of the Viewty videos on youtube … [...]