Some recent news from Chumby Industries.
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Chumby adds social content from Facebook® and Twitter
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iRiver launched their new Portable Media Player (PMP) called the SPINN that has (among many really cool features) a Flash Lite 2.1 user interface as well as pre-installed Flash Games.

The Flash Lite user interace in action with the SPINN control
The device uses an interesting user input mechanism (called “SPINN control”) for navigating through large sets [...]

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.
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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 [...]

Mobile Linux Conference (part of LinuxWorld 2008 Linux World 2008) is taking place August 4-7, 2008 in San Francisco and is among 30 sessions there.
“During the last five years, Linux has made strong inroads into the mobile handset marketplace, as an embedded OS and as a platform for innovation. Today, on high-end “smart [...]

According to Ted Patrick’s blog and the official site … the Adobe MAX NA (North America) conference registration is now open.
MAX 2008 North America
San Francisco, California - November 16 - 19, 2008
Register or

Here’s an evolving Mobile Design Wiki:
“Mobile UI design resources, patterns, devices, and so forth.
Mobile design resources are provided free by the leader in mobile user experience consulting, Little Springs Design.
Designing mobile user interfaces grows ever more interesting. Device and network capabilities are improving, platforms are giving us more features to help the user, [...]

Although I haven’t bought anything recently from iRiver, they remain one of my top all time favorite Portable Media Player manufacturers.
Looks like they have a new device out, called the iRiver P.ple P10! View their Promo Video.

It appears to be a tablet based media player with a lot multimedia capabilities and hardware design we’ve [...]

Here is an excellent example of extending a company’s brand into new mobile and embedded devices (which incidentally run Flash).
In this case, we are talking about the Chumby (an embedded open source internet connected device for delivering content).

Dating DNA Chumby widget
Here is more about Dating DNA:
“Today, more and more people are using free social networking [...]

OK. So, “it”, The Adobe Open Screen Project, or AOSP has just been officially announced over at Adobe:
What is it? What does it mean on a high level?

The Open Screen Project is dedicated to driving consistent rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics.
The Open Screen Project is supported by [...]