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Flash content ported to iPhone (via 3rd party b.Tween framework and EyeGT technology)

Monday, June 30th, 2008

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 [...]

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momoBoston Event: “Browsers - Driving the Web or driven by the Web?”

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

If you head over to Mobile Monday Boston, there’s an upcoming event on June 30th at 7pm (EST) entitled: “Browsers - Driving the Web, or driven by the Web? which you can register for (it’s required, actually).
“Over the next five years, shipments of advanced mobile browsers will grow from 76 Million to 700 Million per [...]

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Mobile Linux Conference - August 4-7, 2008 in San Francisco

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

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 [...]

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“Talking box to the sky”? - Amazonian tribe’s reaction to mobile …

Friday, May 30th, 2008

If one were to drop a Nokia N95, iPhone, or other mobile device into this village with a continuous video playing … I wonder what the reaction would be to this tribe …
Would they destroy it? Put it on a shrine as a “talking box to the sky”? Worship it as a god? Treat it [...]

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Extending your brand to the Chumby platform (via Flash Lite Widgets)

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

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 [...]

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Mobile Monday Boston - iPhone SDK Party March 24th @ Cambridge MA, Apple Store

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

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 [...]

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Chumby Industries and CBS Team Up to Offer ‘College Hoops’ Widget for College Basketball Tournament

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

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 - March 19, 2008 [...]

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Adobe has plans for Flash on the iPhone

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

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 [...]

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So … what *is* your ideal Chumby?

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

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 lots [...]

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Any Mobile Developer’s “worst nightmare” …

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Read this.
From the awesome-ness that is engadget:
It’s a crazy, mixed-up world we live in.
If we aren’t worrying about global warming or peace in the middle east, we have to be on the lookout for scorned women setting large quantities of mobile devices on fire.
A certain Mrs. Wang is guilty of that latter offense. [...]

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