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 - Chumby Industries officially released today a CBS ‘College Hoops’ widget for the College Basketball Tournament March 16 - April 7, 2008.

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Chumby launched a new look and feel for their site. See: www.chumby.com

They also have some video which details some of core usage concepts behind the chumby.

Individual that don’t “get” the chumby should check it out.

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

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Here is an excellent example of extending a company’s brand into new mobile and embedded devices (which incidentally run Flash).

In this case, we are talking about the Chumby (an embedded open source internet connected device for delivering content).

Dating DNA Chumby widget

Here is more about Dating DNA:

“Today, more and more people are using free social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Craigslist, and others to meet new people for dating. Utilizing these sites is free and provides a more natural way of meeting new people than traditional dating sites of the past, such as Match.com and eHarmony.

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There are new software/firmware updates for Chumby.

To get the updates, power cycle your unit(s) … or if you must go the USB stick route.

After update, this should bring you to SW: 1.4.0, FW: 533 (or another variant).

Not what the exact changes are to the Flash Lite implementation (FL “3.0.3″ is indicated), but since the update is OTA and updates work via P2P, update propogation will be quick … plus, Chumby’s officially are released to public today, so they will likely be pre-installed with this most recent version.

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The Nokia N95 firmware udpate (v 21.0.016) is now available (might not be all regions) (via allaboutsymbian and Alessandro).

This includes embedded Flash Lite 3 and WRT, among other enhancements, fixes, etc:

What’s new for v21.0.016 (over and above v20 firmware):

Flash Lite 3 is included, so Flash video sites will work, including YouTube (just as on the N95 8GB v15 firmware from a couple of months ago)

The Web runtime is included, meaning that standalone widgets are now possible

Greater Bluetooth headset compatibility

Better handling of entering lots of text into web page dialogs

Speedier Gallery in every way

Faster Java runtime, so Java apps start faster

plus the usual miscellaneous bug fixes and tweaks, no doubt!

IMPORTANT NOTE (3/27/2008):

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I just got word today, that chumby has officially launched.

CHUMBY INDUSTRIES DEBUTS ITS INNOVATIVE chumby™ INTERNET DEVICE AND CHUMBY™ NETWORK

Company secures deals with leading content providers including: CBS, MTV Networks, MySpace, The Weather Channel Interactive, AOL’s SHOUTcast and Scripps Networks to offer always-on personalized Internet broadcasts

San Diego, CA - Feb. 25, 2008 - Chumby Industries announced today the public launch of the chumby™, its much-anticipated compact consumer Internet device that enables people to receive a constant personalized broadcast of their favorite parts of the Web. The chumby device is currently available in the U.S. at www.chumby.com for $179.95 including shipping.

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There are two upcoming Flash Lite Code Camps that Forum Nokia is sponsoring in the coming month (April 2008).

Here is a bit of what Nokia said about the camps:

“Join the camp and start creating mobile applications to get recognized by millions!

The Forum Nokia Code Camps are specially organized for developers in APAC. You can immediately start coding during the camp and upload your innovative application to MOSH to win the exclusive Code Camp Goodie Bags!

During the camp, you’ll be overloaded with how-to tutorials, intensive discussion with our Code Camp leaders, plus hands-on experience with coding mobile applications yourself.

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