Some recent news from Chumby Industries.
KEEP CONNECTED TO YOUR ONLINE SOCIAL LIFE WITH CHUMBY®
Chumby adds social content from Facebook® and Twitter
San Diego, CA - August 20, 2008 - The chumby makes keeping up with friends easier than ever with the addition of content from some of the Internet’s leading social utilities, delivering them in a [...]

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 [...]

Bill posted his recent “Flash Across Screens” presos from FITC 2008 (Toronto), Adobe Korea Flash Lite Global CP Event, and “Evolving Mobile Experiences” preso from Mobidec 2007 over at flashdevices.net.

Flash Across Screens - FITC 2008 (Toronto)

Flash Across Screens - Adobe Korea Flash Lite Global CP Event (2008)

Evolving Mobile Experiences - Mobidec 2007 (Japan)
You can find [...]

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 [...]

Scaleform GFx was mentioned today so I checked them out:
Scaleform GFx is a light-weight high-performance rich media vector graphics and user interface (UI) engine. GFx combines the scalability and development ease of proven visual authoring tools, such as the Adobe Flash® Studio, with the latest hardware graphics acceleration that cutting-edge PC and Console game developers [...]

Alessandro posted about Flash Lite 3.1 recently … which he got from Sybmian Freak.
Not that this is surprising … as if you remember back to Flash Lite 2.0, they (Adobe), put out a point release (Flash Lite 2.1) right around the same time period last year.
Anyways, Flash Lite 3.1 now includes (among perhaps some [...]