I noticed a Flash Lite 1.x book was released over in Japan.
Japan has been a Flash Lite 1.x market for the last few years (since 2003-2004) … but generally speaking … so is much of the rest of the world, if you want to get the best penetration rate (in terms of world wide consumption) [...]

In Japan, there’s a new mobile service called Chipuya Town.
It’s a virtual world accessible on Flash enabled keitai. Users can create avatars in a virtual 2-D world that represents Tokyo’s Shibuya shopping district.
Essentially it’s a Flash based MMORPG targeted at younger Japanese women. Within the world players socialize with each other, and attain “Groove” [...]

“Bill-san” is giving a presentation at an upcoming Tech-mobi event in Japan (in Japanese).

I don’t have my translator accessible right now, so I’m just going by google.
Tech-mobi seems to be focused on Flash Lite technology, trends & business.
Looks to be about 10 total speaking on Flash Lite at this event.

Tech-mobi 2007 - [...]

Bill Perry had a post about what people around the globe are carrying for mobile devices.
He’s asked readers to respond about:
  â–ª phone model
  â–ª what you like
  â–ª one feature you can’t live without
  â–ª what country you live in
  â–ª next phone you plan on purchasing and why
Lots of Nokia posted thus far [...]

David Collier (of Japan) had a post recently on some of the highlights from DoCoMo’s keynote given by Natsuno Takeshi at last week’s Adobe MAX Japan 2007 conference.
According to Dave’s post, Flash Lite 3.0 enabled handsets will be shipping as early as end of this month over there.
Here is a bunch of bullet points David [...]

Bill posted his Flash Lite slides from MAX Japan.
You can download from his site.

For those interested at all remotely interested … NTT DoCoMo is giving a live corporate presentation (Update: Sorry the live link is no longer available, search DoCoMo for the archive when it is ready) right now …
It’s (of course) in Japanese, but the visuals and demos reveal some about what their plans are in terms [...]

Bill (who is in Japan right now for Adobe MAX) had a recent post about some of the latest KDDI devices that are launching as part of KDDI’s Autumn/Winter collection.
These devices have Flash Lite 2 support for downloadable content, and personalization. Bill is looking into specific capabilities, and may post more soon.
Check out their marketing [...]

Working with sleek mobile devices footprints had me rethink my overloaded leather wallet … Don’t get me wrong, I love the leather and design (see below):

But, eventually all my wallets buckle, rip, and eventually fall apart.
What starts as a happy story (me finding a brand new wallet that feels and smells brand new) [...]

At the upcoming Adobe MAX Japan conference, I found there are 3 sessions on mobile (D-2, D-3, D-4).
Here are some rough translations of the session titles:
â–ª D-2: モãƒ?イルコンテンツ制作ã?®åŠ¹çŽ‡åŒ–ã€?ã??ã?—ã?¦æ¥½ã?—ã??ã?ªã‚‹æ–¹æ³•
“Mobile content production efficiency, and the fun way” (Cell)
▪ D-3: Flash Lite 3.0 �広�るモ�イルコンテンツ�世界
“Flash Lite 3.0 in the spread of mobile content world” (Bill Perry - Adobe) [...]