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 [...]

Engaget had a post about what you would change in the chumby. Both existing owners and new comers are posting comments there on their gripes, ideas, “wish-listing”, and other commentary on the chumby. Also, if you did not know, there is also a fair amount of traffic on the community forums Chumby has setup, which [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Bug Labs has an interesting concept. buglabs.net is selling a kit which allows the average tech savvy consumer (but not necessarily an all out hardware “hacker”) the ability to create/experiment with snap friendly type hardware components. “BUG makes it fun and easy to build any gadget you can imagine. Build familiar things like digital cameras [...]

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.

I just had some time to catch up on the community and watch some of Mark Doherty’s (Adobe, Mobile Developer Relations for EMEA) e-Seminar: “Developing mobile content with Adobe Creative Suite 3″. This particular e-Seminar was geared towards those just getting into Flash Lite and Mobile using Adobe products … However, if you’re like me, [...]

Here are the slides from today’s BAMaD presentation: Developing Flash Lite Widgets for the Chumby Platform that will be rescheduled for a future date. | View | Upload your own

I forgot to post this a while back, but here is a new zip containing a new Flash CS3 template and accompanying .adpp (device central update file). This is for those used to working within a mobile context and ADC and just want to carry over a more familiar workflow process. It is not required [...]