Just a reminder, but this Friday, we are having a Flash Lite Technology Day here in Boston, with Nokia.
I am giving a talk about extending capabilities of Flash Lite on S60, “Programming Advanced Nokia Features with Flash Lite”:

Also, here are the speakers for the event:
  • Ganesh Sivaraman, Internet and Web 2.0 Business Development Manager, [...]

I’m just back from Flash on the Beach 2008 (Brighton), and now Adobe MAX 2008 is not far away (November 16-19, actually).
In addition to the numerous mobile and device sessions this year at Adobe MAX 2008, there are several exciting (free) social events related to Mobile and Devices that you may be interested in attending:
MOBILE [...]

SWF2Go v2.0 has been released.
Some of the (new) features include:

Easy to Use: The best and
complete professional SIS installer and SWF launcher
toolkit, now with new redesigned user interface.
Broad Compatibility: Support
for all versions of Adobe Flash Lite Player (1.1,
2.0, 2.1, 3.0+) and all versions of Symbian S60 3rd
Edition (9.1, 9.2, 9.3+).
Industry Standard: Produces
Symbian Signed and Express Signed [...]

Looks like Sony Ericsson released the Project Capuchin SDK, including some new resources (tutorials, examples):

Project Capuchin SDK available for download, bridging Java™ ME and Adobe® Flash Lite™
Sony Ericsson’s Project Capuchin SDK is a set of APIs, a packaging tool, documents and getting-started tutorials that enables developers to bridge the Java™ ME and Adobe® Flash Lite™ [...]

Faisal and the rest of Orison Technologies has been working on SWF2Go version 2.0 (currently version is 1.5) according to his blog.
For those unfamiliar with SWF2Go, 1.5 (the current version) can be summed up as: "a Professional SIS Installer and SWF Launcher Toolkit for Flash Lite".
Since this new 2.0 version isn’t quite released yet, [...]

Sony Ericsson has released some preliminary API examples and tutorial material for the upcoming Capuchin technology that will most likely be part of SE handsets going forwards.
“The new Sony Ericsson getting started tutorial for Project Capuchin outlines how the Project Capuchin API can be used as a bridge between Java™ ME Platform and Adobe®Flash Lite™. [...]

On October 10th, Forum Nokia will be holding a Flash Lite Technology Day here in Boston (at the Nokia Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts to be exact).
Event Overview:

What: Flash Lite Technology Day in Boston
When: October 10th, 2008 (9am - 5pm)
Where: Nokia Research Center (NRC),
3 Cambridge Center,
Cambridge, MA 02142
Cost: It’s FREE.
Forum Nokia invites all developers [...]

Two new things of note with Janus recently:
1. Version 2.1.2 is out (and the Symbian version is free).

2. Janus for Symbian Engine has been open sourced!
From the sourceforge project:
“Janus Symbian Engine is a local http server (for Flash Lite) for Smartphones (S60), which allows developers to create engaging Flash Lite applications. It allows you [...]

KuneriLite launched a new plugin enabling Flash Lite animated ringtones to Nokia Series 60 devices.
Animated ringtones (or “Chaku-flash”) had been possible in Japan for quite a while on supported handsets (using Flash Lite), but KuneriLite has now made it possible on Nokia S60 devices as well.
“KuneriLite Ringtone plug-in can launch any SWF when voice [...]

Rob posted the 1st recorded Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group Podcast (BMaDUG) meeting over on his blog.

iTunes
  • Subscribe to the Podcast
(Note: We’ll probably do a follow up - Episode #2 soon)
Listen to it, here, inline:
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Download it:
  • BAMaDUG - episode #1 (=~ 35 MB)
Summary:
(As usual) [...]