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 [...]

Barefootsoft posted about their products (b.Tween and EyeGT) on a blog and how they work (to some degree).
” … Just a few lines to clarify that it is NOT a Flash Player (Lite or otherwise), but rather a sets of tools, a graphical engine (eyeGT) and a framework (b.Tween) that extract, rework, and optimize the [...]

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.

This upcoming wireless event came into my inbox:
Event: ECINA Wireless Special Interest Group (SIG) Seminar
Date: June 26, 2008
Topics:
1. Wireless Sensor Network: Promises and Challenges
2. Navigate the Mobile Ecosystem
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm, Thursday, June 26, 2008
Location: Foley Hoag LLP, 1000 Winter St, North Entrance, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA
Wireless Sensor Networks, the epitome of a pervasive [...]

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

On September 22-24, 2008 “Design for Mobile” Conference (D4M) is taking place in Lawrence, Kansas.
This appears to be a new conference sponsored by Little Springs Design.
Here is a little about this mobile conference:
“Design For Mobile will be the first North American mobile user experience conference. This will be a two-day conference focused on strategy [...]

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.

Over on Mobile Game Developer’s site, there is an article entitled: “Can Developers and Publishers actually make money with mobile games?”.
This was the question and therefore the central topic of the roundtable at the Quo Vadis game developer conference in Berlin last week, which we attended along with representatives from arvato mobile, Jamba, Exit Games, [...]

There’s a free article over on communitymx.com entitled “Mobile Internet Devices: An Introduction”.
In it the author talks about his experience with mobile devices over the years, and his perceptions and generalizations on Mobile Web.
It is a short and interesting read; though the author tends to concentrate on “what was” and “what might be”, rather [...]