Via embeddedflash.com and topiphonenews, seems Apple has filed a patent for: “Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics”.
“United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just released a large document detailing “Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics”. There are lots [...]

Rob posted the 1st recorded Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group Podcast (BMaDUG) meeting over on his blog.

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Summary:
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If you’re in San Francisco there is another iPhoneDevCamp 2 coming up.
Looks like registration is tapped out and there is a “waiting list” … but what else is new for all things iPhone related these days?!
Here are the logistics:

iPhoneDevCamp 2
August 1-3, 2008
Adobe Systems, 601 Townsend St.
San Francisco, CA, 94104 USA

Who knows, perhaps an attendee [...]

Bill found this interesting article on RIA development for cell phones and small devices over on AJAX World Magazine entitled: RIAs on Cell Phones and Small Devices: Flash Lite, Silverlight, Android, JavaFX, QT
“Tt is said that by 2013, 31 percent of all mobile phones will be smart phones, and by then, a smart phone might [...]

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 [...]

Just a reminder that on Monday March 24th @ the Apple Store in Cambridge Side Galleria Mall, there will be an iPhone SDK party put on by Mobile Monday Boston.
Here are the details:
Agenda:

Keynote Presentation from Jonathan Zdziarski, leading iPhone app developer and author of iPhone Open Application Development
Showcase of apps from local iPhone [...]

According to cnet (and other wildfire postings across the blog-o-sphere), Adobe is planning on doing their own Flash player on iPhone (through installed apps courtesy of the iPhone SDK).
Here is what Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen had to say (in part):
“Well, you really believe that Flash is synonymous with the Internet, and frankly, anybody who wants [...]

I caught this news recently, an article written by Paul Krill, an editor at InfoWorld.

Sun: We’ll put Java on the iPhone
Sun readies virtual machine to make Java apps run on Apple’s mobile platform
Sun Microsystems is developing a Java Virtual Machine for Apple’s iPhone and plans to release the JVM some time after June, enabling [...]

FYI: Just got an email from momoboston.
There’s a iPhone SDK launch party at the Apple Store in the Cambridge Side Galleria Mall on March 24th.
Anyways, if you are in the area, might be cool to stop by … and no, I still don’t know for sure if the SDK includes any mention of [...]

If you ever wanted to know how a touchscreen works on a low-level, and how specifically the iPhone pulls off some of its mojo, this is a pretty cool link …
Check out: How the iPhone Touch Screen Works
Of course, the beauty of a great touchscreen, is that … much like the mechanics of car, [...]