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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 voice [...]

Rob posted the 1st recorded Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group Podcast (BMaDUG) meeting over on his blog.

iTunes
  • Subscribe to the Podcast
(Note: We’ll probably do a follow up - Episode #2 soon)
Listen to it, here, inline:
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Download it:
  • BAMaDUG - episode #1 (=~ 35 MB)
Summary:
(As usual) [...]

Via Mariam: “Things NOT to do while developing Flash Lite mobile games”, based from an original “50 Ways to Make Us HATE Your Flash Game” article:
1. Add loud and annoying sound effects to your game
2. Don’t add sound control options so we have to listen to your loud and annoying sound effects
3. Make your game [...]

Attention: For those playing … don’t worry, I’m not posting any “spoilers” here! (Well, I don’t think so!)
A while back Nokia launched an interesting site called: openatownrisk.com
What’s going on? - “Hundreds of years ago, scientists, artists and members of Royal families gathered to produce a clip of grand weirdness.
A clip stranger and more amazing [...]