Archive for the 'Mobile Culture' Category

Flash Lite Book from Japan

Friday, August 14th, 2009

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.

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Mobile Monday Boston on the Grand Canal outdoor patio – July 27th

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

There’s an upcoming MomoBoston event. Here the details: Join Mobile Monday on July 27th for a relaxed summer gathering on the deck of the Grand Canal. Meet some mobile people. See some demos. Enjoy summer. Cash bar. Bring your mobile phone if you have something to demo. We won’t have formal demo stations, but let [...]

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MassMobile and Mobile Monday Boston: “Apps and Beers” meeting on June 15th

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Wow, first I go to Belgium for the MultiMania fest, drink quantities of Belgium brew, Flash on Tap is next week … and now I find out about an upcoming “Beer and Apps” meeting which is an upcoming momoboston and MassMobile event on June 16th at 6:30 pm … I see a trend. Here is [...]

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Speaking at Multi-Mania 2009 (Belgium) next week

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

This is kind of last minute for me … but this Saturday I leave for Belgium for next week’s Multi-Mania ’09 conference (May 18-19). My session is: “AppStore Revolution Craze”. It’s (mostly) a business and awareness presentation on the state of mobile, and the AppStore craziness that’s out there across not only Apple’s AppStore, but [...]

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Xconomy Forum Boston: The Future of Mobile Innovation in New England

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Xconomy is holding a half day forum discussion on Tuesday (April 7, 2009), discussing the future of mobile innovation in New England. Here are more details: Xconomy Forum: The Future of Mobile Innovation in New England April 7, 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm (networking reception to follow event) Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial [...]

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Palm Pre demo on Late Night Show (with Jimmy Fallon)

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Palm Pre on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (guest was Engadget) Good to see the Palm getting some press for a change. BTW: Earlier this year, Palm announced it’s addition into the Open Screen Project and Flash 10 should make it onto devices sometime this year (either pre-installed or via update).

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Rick Mason talks about things from FITC 2009 (Amsterdam)

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Here is Rick Mason from FITC 2009 talking about FITC, Adobe technologies (AIR, Flex, Flash, etc), some sentiments about mobile in North America, iPhone, Flash Mobile, plus FITC 2009 Mobile.

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Mobile Device Geek Prejudice in the UK? ;)

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Keith Peter’s posted about this on twitter: http://www.met.police.uk/campaigns/counter_terrorism/ct_phone_2008.pdf Here in the states, it’s pretty interesting the way I get treated by the TSA (Transportation Authority) when flying to destinations based on the number of mobile devices I carry … Within the US, if I pack my mobile devices and gadgets in a check-on bag or [...]

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Text & Learn by LeapFrog – getting kids hooked on mobile at a young age. :)

Friday, February 6th, 2009

LeapFrogs Text & Learn is a “BlackBerry” for tots? Text and Learn is designed to let little learners play in a grown-up way! Children can exchange text messages with their puppy pal Scout, check Scout’s planner to see what his week entails and more in the pretend browser mode. Other learning modes offer practice with [...]

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Is this the year of Mobile?

Friday, January 30th, 2009

If you’re in the mobile industry (or even if you’re not!), you’ve heard this phrase: “Is this the year of Mobile?” about 10 million times over the past 5-10 years: “Is this the year of Mobile?” The question asked in this form, can be interpreted many ways (especially depending on your region and mobile culture), [...]

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