Some recent news from Chumby Industries.
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Via Bill:
“Next week Tuesday through Thursday (26-28 August) we’ll be offering a free Flash Cast training course for anyone interested in learning how to develop Flash Cast channels for Verizon Wireless Dashboard service.

Dashboard Client - 1st level nav
The training will be held here at our San Francisco office and Emily Kim who’s very knowledgeable with [...]

Here are a few Flash Mobile experiences over on Adobe.com including content created for/from: Bacardi, Mightyverse, SpongeBob SquarePants, Finetune, Sony Pictures, Johnny Walker, and Nasdaq.

On August 28, 2008 at 9:00 PDT (convert time), there will be an e-seminar on Sony Ericcson’s Project Capuchin.
“Join a one-hour online seminar and learn how Project Capuchin is empowering Flash Lite and Java ME developers to leverage their respective expertise to quickly and securely create highly engaging mobile content.”

Flash Lite meets Java ME on [...]

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 [...]

I finally got into the “guts” of the LG Chocolate 3 (VX8650) and was able to browse around some of the file structure.
I found that like many handsets now shipping from LG, the LG Chocolate 3 (VX8650) is also using Flash Lite for the user interface (see below), which is pretty cool.

1st level navigation [...]

It took a bit of time; but Qualcomm put up there recorded sessions (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3) from the yearly BREW 2008 conference, recently.
Among many presentations, here are a few that are Flash Mobile related:
BIZ-201 - Open Screen Project
Anup Murarka, Director Technical Marketing, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Video, PDF [1.89MB]
BIZ-502 - When Social Network Meets [...]

Sony Ericsson launched a (Windows) tool as part of the Capuchin project called SWF2JAR.
It takes a Midlet and Flash Lite SWF and generates a deployable jar file which will allow you to install and take advantage of the upcoming Capuchin API based content on supported Sony Ericsson handsets.

Here is more detail:
The Swf2Jar 1.0 tool [...]

Recently, I picked up a Verizon Wireless LG Verizon Voyager (aka, the “LG VX10000″) handset which I found leverages Flash Lite 2.x for pieces of the user interface.
Not a shocker really (LG is using Flash Lite on a few handsets) … Previously, in store, I had guessed it was Flash Lite, just playing with [...]

Nokia Flash Lite Components:
I just read via Mark’s blog that Nokia released a set of components for Flash Lite (with documentation and sample assets). Check out his thoughts.

Example Components from Adobe MaD:
Some time ago, Mark posted some Flash Lite 1.1 and 2.x component examples that had been utilized in some form or fashion by [...]