Ironically, I was just flipping through Forbes Magazine recently but seems I missed Yoshikazu Tanaka in the APAC listings as reported by this posting, who was deemed in 2010 as the first mobile gaming billionaire. Yep, I said billion, not millionaire. If ever there was gold rush for social media and mobile gaming, seems like [...]

A book on Flash Lite from Japan. It’s mostly Flash Lite 1.1 (i.e. Flash timeline based projects). Interesting to note that a 1.1 book still has a market over there, even though we have advanced to 2.x, 3.x, and soon: Flash 10-like functionality across top tier devices.

KuneriLite launched a new plugin enabling Flash Lite animated ringtones to Nokia Series 60 devices. Animated ringtones (or “Chaku-flash”) had been possible in Japan for quite a while on supported handsets (using Flash Lite), but KuneriLite has now made it possible on Nokia S60 devices as well. “KuneriLite Ringtone plug-in can launch any SWF when [...]

D.C. (David Collier) from pikkle (Flash Lite company in Japan), posted about the new docomo 906 series being out in Japan, soon. These devices have Flash Lite 3.0 and support multiple content types. One content type that is new and of interest, is called “decome anime”. Decome Anime allows Flash content to run inside a [...]

TOKYO, Japan (AP) — Japanese cell phone users will test a new service that allows them to download fragrances, major telecommunications company NTT Communications Corp. said Monday. A downloaded fragrance will be sent from a user’s cell phone to a base station that will emit the scent. Twenty participants using “Mobile Fragrance Communications” can download [...]

Brian Frank and Rhett Woods (both with Adobe Mobile and Devices team) both got interviewed by beet.tv and talk about the past, present, and Adobe’s vision of Flash across devices. Here are the interviews: Flash Player Debuts on U.S. Mobile Phones and Beet.TV has the Demo — Justin.tv and YouTube Look Great! Adobe Flash on [...]

Somehow, I missed this announcement (although, I am guessing it was very region specific and has just now been localized to English). Anyways, the news is that Adobe and CELL have announced Adobe Device Central Premium Service in Japan for the Flash Lite/mobile developers there. Here is the overview: “Adobe Device Central Premium Service for [...]

I caught some news (about some Japanese companies that their showing some technology to US investors) that contained a new Flash Lite service/product in Japan … Seems to be some kind of transcoding service … but someone will have to verify. “Wisdom Web’s “Mobile Glimpse” makes it possible to view contents on Websites with mobile [...]

There is an available Flash Mobile support position in Japan, as part of the Adobe Japan office. Here are the details: AS020845 — Customer Support Engineer About Adobe Japan With more than 190 employees, Adobe’s Tokyo office focuses on sales, marketing, and engineering. The office occupies the 19th floor of Gate City Ohsaki. Position Summary [...]

Oh noes … Mobile devices really *are* taking over the world … check out the Toshiba’s 815T PB on Softbank. Do these devices support Flash Lite that connect to Skynet via a loadVariables()?! Not sure! In any regard, anyone know Sarah Connor’s address? Must get John Connor to safety! Joking, of course … These are [...]