Sony Ericsson has published new optimization updates for Flash Lite 2.
“Sony Ericsson’s Adobe® Flash Lite™ 2.0 Developers’ Guidelines now include an extensive appendix covering optimization guidelines and an accompanying movie clip useful for monitoring free memory levels during application testing.
Adobe Flash Lite 2.0 is supported by Sony Ericsson’s Java™ Platform 8 (JP-8) phone family, [...]

From Alessandro, there is another “An evening with S60″ event scheduled for September 17th 2008 in New York City at the Nokia Flag Ship store (Map).
“… For the second time, “An Evening with S60″ lands in New York on Wednesday September 17th from 7:30 PM to 10 PM at the Nokia Flagship Store, 5 E [...]

Sony Ericsson has released some preliminary API examples and tutorial material for the upcoming Capuchin technology that will most likely be part of SE handsets going forwards.
“The new Sony Ericsson getting started tutorial for Project Capuchin outlines how the Project Capuchin API can be used as a bridge between Java™ ME Platform and Adobe®Flash Lite™. [...]

On October 10th, Forum Nokia will be holding a Flash Lite Technology Day here in Boston (at the Nokia Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts to be exact).
Event Overview:

What: Flash Lite Technology Day in Boston
When: October 10th, 2008 (9am - 5pm)
Where: Nokia Research Center (NRC),
3 Cambridge Center,
Cambridge, MA 02142
Cost: It’s FREE.
Forum Nokia invites all developers [...]

This is one of many screen saver ideas I came up for Flash on Tap 2008 (BTW: FOT happens in Boston, October 7-9 this year).

“2 Beers are better than 1″ - Flash Lite 2.x screen saver
I’ll make it a downloadable before the conference in October, along with an interactive mobile (beer) guide for the [...]

Just a reminder that the Adobe e-seminar: Flash Lite + Java ME, Project Capuchin is tomorrow (August 28, 2008 9:00 PST).
Details are below:

“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 [...]

Two new things of note with Janus recently:
1. Version 2.1.2 is out (and the Symbian version is free).

2. Janus for Symbian Engine has been open sourced!
From the sourceforge project:
“Janus Symbian Engine is a local http server (for Flash Lite) for Smartphones (S60), which allows developers to create engaging Flash Lite applications. It allows you [...]

Bill Perry (Adobe) shared some news today about the new upcoming Photoshop.com Mobile Beta service that is scheduled to launch sometime later this year (as early as September 2008) in the US market.

Photoshop.com Mobile BETA
The application/client (which is Flash Lite) will allow users to upload, view, and share photos directly from a supported mobile devices [...]

Native Flash Video playback is a feature of Flash Lite 3.x for devices and, yes, there is support for both (FP 8-VP6 and FP 7-Spark codecs within Flash video for Flash Lite 3 devices supporting it.
Thus (if hadn’t already guessed), you can create your own video players (youtube player, etc) and/or tie into other online [...]

Via embeddedflash.com and topiphonenews, seems Apple has filed a patent for: “Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics”.
“United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just released a large document detailing “Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics”. There are lots [...]