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Archive for March, 2008

Chumby Industries and CBS Team Up to Offer ‘College Hoops’ Widget for College Basketball Tournament

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Cool, if you are into following College B-ball (and have a chumby).

Here is the release:

Chumby Industries and CBS Team Up to Offer ‘College Hoops’ Widget for College Basketball Tournament
Now chumby users can wake up to the latest real-time scores, game previews, highlights, headlines, articles, and more provided by CBS
San Diego, CA - March 19, 2008 [...]

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Adobe has plans for Flash on the iPhone

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

According to cnet (and other wildfire postings across the blog-o-sphere), Adobe is planning on doing their own Flash player on iPhone (through installed apps courtesy of the iPhone SDK).
Here is what Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen had to say (in part):
“Well, you really believe that Flash is synonymous with the Internet, and frankly, anybody who wants [...]

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Adobe Flash Lite Shipments Pass *Half Billion* Mark!

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Congratulations to Adobe on having Flash Lite on a reported 500,000,000 devices! That’s a lot of digits.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — March 17, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced that more than 500 million mobile devices shipped with Adobe® Flash® Lite™ software to date.
Flash Lite, Adobe’s award-winning Flash Player runtime [...]

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Adobe Flash Lite and Reader LE Licensed by Microsoft!

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Via Ralph Hauwert: Microsoft has officially licensed Adobe Flash Lite (version 3.x) to run across Windows Mobile devices (and also Adobe Reader LE, BTW). Very cool!
Although from the release, it looks to be browser based (at this time) … even, so … this is very encouraging news for developers and early adopter clients who [...]

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Adobe and CELL Announce Adobe Device Central Premium Service in Japan

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Somehow, I missed this announcement (although, I am guessing it was very region specific and has just now been localized to English).
Anyways, the news is that Adobe and CELL have announced Adobe Device Central Premium Service in Japan for the Flash Lite/mobile developers there.
Here is the overview:
“Adobe Device Central Premium Service for Japanese mobile content [...]

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“Roll Call” for CTIA Wireless (April 1-3, 2008 - Las Vegas, USA)

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

If you are part of the Flash mobile community attending CTIA Wireless (April 1-3, 2008 Las Vegas, USA) can you leave a comment below?
Perhaps we can arrange a meeting at this event.
Thanks.
-sj

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So … what *is* your ideal Chumby?

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Engaget had a post about what you would change in the chumby.
Both existing owners and new comers are posting comments there on their gripes, ideas, “wish-listing”, and other commentary on the chumby.
Also, if you did not know, there is also a fair amount of traffic on the community forums Chumby has setup, which lots [...]

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Mobile Glimpse - HTML to Flash Lite!?

Friday, March 14th, 2008

I caught some news (about some Japanese companies that their showing some technology to US investors) that contained a new Flash Lite service/product in Japan …
Seems to be some kind of transcoding service … but someone will have to verify.
“Wisdom Web’s “Mobile Glimpse” makes it possible to view contents on Websites with mobile terminals [...]

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Any Mobile Developer’s “worst nightmare” …

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Read this.
From the awesome-ness that is engadget:
It’s a crazy, mixed-up world we live in.
If we aren’t worrying about global warming or peace in the middle east, we have to be on the lookout for scorned women setting large quantities of mobile devices on fire.
A certain Mrs. Wang is guilty of that latter offense. [...]

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For a great QR Code Blog, see: 2d-code.co.uk

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Aral posted a link to a great resource blog on QR Code’s called 2d-code.co.uk. Nice!

(If you have a suitable device with QR, use it on the above! )

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