If you ever wanted to know how a touchscreen works on a low-level, and how specifically the iPhone pulls off some of its mojo, this is a pretty cool link …
Check out: How the iPhone Touch Screen Works
Of course, the beauty of a great touchscreen, is that … much like the mechanics of car, [...]

Faisal posted about a tip (many of us, like to use) when dealing with 1.1 content (replacing tellTargets() in favor of 1-line gotoAndPlay() statements with frame label jumps).
So:
[AS]
tellTarget( “person_mc” ) {
gotoAndPlay( “moveHead” ); //– assuming there is a frame labeled ‘moveHead’ on the timeline
}
[/AS]
… can simply be:
[AS]
gotoAndPlay( “person_mc:moveHead” [...]

I caught this a while back when it was debut at CES 2008, and was thinking it might be Flash Lite … but I wasn’t 100% sure.
Well, recently, I caught a photo from Matt S. (Adobe) (MWC 2008) which indicated they were. Not that I believe everything I read … but even if it’s [...]

Phillip has his article, Developing widgets for Chumby with Flash Lite 3, up on devnet, now.

momoboston just sent me an invite on behalf of Google to attend a “Code Day” this Saturday in Cambridge.
I suppose they want feedback on their platform and newly released SDK …
Fellow MoMoBostoners,
The folks at Google’s offices in Mountain View and Cambridge would like to invite all MoMoBostoners to a cool developer event we’re [...]

I’m starting a new initiative: Mobile Life … feel free to join in, at anytime … basically just name your post “Mobile Life (<Your Region>) #Post Number” … and then the rest of your title for what is happening in your mobile life, in your region on occasion (no need to post every day).
Why [...]

From Engadget …
Verizon Wireless is going to start offering unlimited service through the following packages (supposedly on Tuesday the 19th):
Plans:

$100 - Nationwide Unlimited (voice)
$120 - Nationwide Select Unlimited (voice, SMS, MMS)
$140 - Nationwide Premium (voice, SMS, MMS, VZNav, VCAST, email)
$150 - Nationwide Email and Messaging (voice, SMS, MMS, and [...]

Bug Labs has an interesting concept.
buglabs.net is selling a kit which allows the average tech savvy consumer (but not necessarily an all out hardware “hacker”) the ability to create/experiment with snap friendly type hardware components.
“BUG makes it fun and easy to build any gadget you can imagine. Build familiar things like digital cameras and GPS [...]

I just read from Mark Doherty’s blog that Device Profile #5 is now available for download.
In addition to many new Flash Lite 2.x devices, this new update has some of the first profiles for Flash Lite 3 devices shipping world-wide; including the Nokia N95 NAM, and some supported Japanese Keitai.
In addition; as always … [...]

I was reading an article entitled “New crop of handset application startups are chasing mobile consumers” featured in MHT (aka Mass High Tech) recently …
It had some interesting quotes as applied to advertising in the mobile space, and what role social networking plays there.
Here are a select few:
“The whole mobile industry is going through [...]