Another e-seminar is scheduled for January 23, 2008 entitled: “Flash Lite and Flex for mTourism” by untravelmedia.com.

What they’re doing with Flash Lite is very cool.

The Flex app is also uniquely innovative, and I’m sure they’ll talk more about it in this session.

mTourism is an interesting market; and I’m confident will grow over time as people don’t think twice about using their respective mobile devices to look up schedules, places of interest, etc.

Flash Lite and Flex for mTourism

Speakers: Untravel Media’s CTO Ira Hochman and CEO Michael Epstein

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Here’s a demo of Adobe Flash Cast at Mobile World Congress 2008 (on a series 60 Nokia N81 N73 which has Flash Lite 2.x).

If you were not aware, Adobe MaD announced Flash Cast 2 at the Congress recently … but I’m not 100% sure if this is a newer Mobile Client or not.

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Via Alessandro, from Peter Elst: I missed this at MAX Chicago, but apparerently Adobe Flash Mobile Home was shown at a Sneak Peaks (running on a Morotola device on Verizon).

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Just an FYI, but I believe there is still Flash Lite 3 training going on in San Francisco this week (you’ll need to email to see if it’s the case (adjust the email or it’ll bounce), … or perhaps Bill or someone from Adobe will comment below).

Below is the courseware overview.

Adobe Flash Lite 2.x/3.0 Mobile Application Development Training Course

Audience
The course will be targeted at mobile developers with a review of Flash basics. Course will continue to use Flash CS3 and Device Central as the main authoring tools.

Course Length
This will be a three-day course.

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Adobe MaD has a press release out today out of MWC.

Also, you can grab the printable PDF if you prefer.

Adobe Launches Flash Home and Flash Cast 2 at Mobile World Congress

BARCELONA, SPAIN — Feb. 11, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that major content providers, including MTV Networks, the Nasdaq Stock Market, eBay, Reuters, Dolce & Gabbana and others are using the company’s Flash Player compatible mobile products and solutions to extend their brands to the handheld market. Leading companies are adopting Adobe® Flash® Home, a new mobile application for rich, dynamic home screens, and Adobe Flash® Cast™ 2 technology, the next generation offline portal solution, to deliver high-impact user experiences and provide instant access to data services.

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Bill posted his Flash Lite slides from MAX Japan.

You can download from his site.

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Brian Frank and Rhett Woods (both with Adobe Mobile and Devices team) both got interviewed by beet.tv and talk about the past, present, and Adobe’s vision of Flash across devices.

Here are the interviews:

• Flash Player Debuts on U.S. Mobile Phones and Beet.TV has the Demo — Justin.tv and YouTube Look Great!
• Adobe Flash on Phones Started in Japan Five Years Ago: It’s All About Rich APP’s and Cool U.I

For more information on Flash Lite, check out the Adobe Mobile and Devices site.

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For those living in the UK, Nokia BETA labs has an Advertising-powered Download! client for S60 available.

Supposedly, this is going to enable at least some of the downloadable content in the Download! catalog to be free.

Very cool (if you are in the UK).

Here is more info:

Overview

Download! is a service available today on Nokia devices. With Download! you can find, try and buy compatible mobile content. We’re testing a new version of Download! that includes banner ads – in the future these ads will fund some of the content available in Download! so you’ll be able to find more free downloads, more often.

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Here’s an interview from Anup (Director, Technical Marketing - Mobile and Devices at Adobe Systems Inc.) from Mobile World Congress 2008 speaking about the Flash platform in terms of mobile.

In it he makes it pretty clear what Adobe’s position is on Flash on the iPhone is (if you’re not already keen on how Adobe licenses out the player technology).

But, much more importantly, he also speaks to Adobe’s vision of Flash across mobile devices, and the mobile experience that Flash lends to mobile space (UI, downloadable content, data services) … all without the end user oblivious to what technology is being used!

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In line with my talk on Flash Lite casual game development session this week at Flashforward, I found these two postings from Blizzard … yeah, the guys who make WoW (World of Warcraft).

Good to see that yet another notable game company is starting to notice how Flash Lite can be leveraged in regards to user interface, rapid prototyping, and as tool for (casual) mobile game development … granted, even though these specific positions are multifaceted.

Blizzard mobile related jobs:

• Lead Mobile UI Designer
• Lead Mobile Software Engineer

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