This October, I will be speaking at year’s first Flash on Tap conference here in Boston.
From the conference name, I think you can gather what some of the conference agenda entails … but in case not, here you go:
“The Flash on Tap conference is burring the lines between business and pleasure. Experience the excitement of [...]

Kind of old news this past week, but: “Mobile leaders to unify the Symbian software platform and set the future of mobile free” … but I wanted to post about the deal that was announced not too long ago … because it will be very important to the evolving mobile device platform playing field (IMHO).
If [...]

I just read via Peter Elst that Thomas Joos (mobile guide “extraordinaire”) used a framework called b.Tween framework (currently betaware) that is part of EyeGT technology, created by a company called barefootsoft to port and run his original Flash mobile guide on the iPhone (quite a mouth full, eh?)
“eyeGT is the most comprehensive graphics and [...]

Bill updated his ongoing Flash Enabled Handset spreadsheet (PDF).
Current #’s of Flash enabled handsets as of June 25, 2008 are:
85 Nokia
71 Sony Ericsson
13 Verizon
149 NTT DoCoMo
110 KDDI
and 60 Softbank handsets.
All the info is in the PDF.
Report all discrepancies and updates to Bill via his blog.

Via MAX blog, (some of) the Adobe MAX 2008 NA session info is now available.
In terms of Flash Mobile, there appears to be a small track, including the following sessions (subject to change, a wee-bit):
Adobe Roadmap: Video
Learn about Adobe’s product roadmap for video and discuss Adobe’s vision so that together we can forge a new [...]

Dale is giving his Adobe Flash Lite and Nokia WRT (Web Runtime) APAC session right now (12am EST).
You can check it out here.

Device Profile #6 for Adobe Device Central has been released and includes 63 new device profiles as well as updates and enhancements to some 110 existing profiles.
If you are working with Flash Lite, you should think about updating.
This update also contains some Flash Lite 3.0 supported devices.
Mark has more comments on his blog.

D.C. (David Collier) of Pikkle in Japan was recently asking “What do developers want to know?” (over on his blog) for some upcoming articles for publication.
He is asking for feedback on some questions, not just from Japanese market, but also from the worldwide perspective from the global Flash Mobile community.
1) differences between US + [...]

There is an upcoming eSeminar via the Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group (BAMaDUG), on June 27th, 2008 at 12pm EST (check time).
Andrea Trento from interpreting.it, will present:
DATE/TIME:
June 27th, 2008 at 12pm EST
TITLE:
Flash Lite content - games and applications – from concept to cash
DESCRIPTION:
How to approach content creation and launch and get to cashing [...]

D.C. (David Collier) from pikkle (Flash Lite company in Japan), posted about the new docomo 906 series being out in Japan, soon.
These devices have Flash Lite 3.0 and support multiple content types.
One content type that is new and of interest, is called “decome anime”.
Decome Anime allows Flash content to run inside a [...]