Here are some specific mobile announcements from this years Adobe MAX 208 San Francisco conference:
1. Adobe Distributable Player Solution for Mobile and Devices unveiled (Private BETA).
2. Adobe AppZone announced.
3. Adobe Mobile Packager announced.
4. Matt Snow demoed some Adobe Nitro (Widgets which can cross many screens, including mobile and devices) at a Sneak Peaks.
5. What appeared [...]

Nokia launched their “Friend View” service recently (essentially, a location based micro-blogging service).
“Nokia Friend View is a location and micro-blogging service that helps you stay in touch with your close friends. It let’s you share where you are and how you feel from home, work, or on the go. With Friend View it is easy [...]

There is a mobile conference going on in San Francisco, on November 3rd, 2008 called “Mobile 2.0″.
Here are details:
This one-day event focusing on the Mobile Web and Disruptive Mobile Innovation, brings together experts and thought leaders from all areas of the mobile ecosystem, including startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers, and mobile application developers and [...]

Mobile Internet World 2008 is going on this week in Boston, October 21-23, 2008.
Join 175+ industry executives from the entire mobile Internet ecosystem including Google, Intel, Access, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Hearst Publications, Yankee Group, Texas Instruments and many others. Mobile Internet services are an untapped $66 billion global market according to Yankee Group. Learn how [...]

I got some marketing literature from GSM (underdog) T-Mobile USA. It has some good “TXT’ing 101″ tid-bits, that I’ll share in this post.
Yes, we more than still have silly adverts about TXT’ing and voice plans here in the US … although, data and mobile services are growing and thriving businesses, as mobile devices become even [...]

A little late, but there is FlashCast training (Verizon Dashboard centric) at Adobe this week for those willing to attend at the San Francisco office.
I believe today is a Flash Lite 1.1 one day session, and then the other two days focus specifically on FlashCast training.
Details:

Tuesday - Thursday, September 23-25, 2008
9:00 am - [...]

Bill Perry (Adobe Mobile & Devices) posted some clips of Shantanu’s keynote from CTIA that happened earlier this September.
The presentation is awesome, and gives a pretty clear and concise message about how Adobe views the next generation of Mobile.
Here are videos, and thanks to Bill Perry for taking the time to shoot, edit, and [...]

I caught this a while back, but didn’t have time to blog immediately: handsetdetection.com
Due to the sheer number of features offered across mobile devices today (does the device support Flash Lite? Java? does it support screen savers? etc etc) … whether to transcode (simplify websites) for non-PC portable and mobile devices, or to offer up [...]

momoboston has put up a recording of the Mobile Browser (sold out) event that took place at Orange Labs in Boston.

Over the next five years, shipments of advanced mobile browsers will grow from 76 Million to 700 Million per year (ABI). Will mobile-specific websites proliferate, or will browsers and transcoding catch up? Will web [...]

If you missed the news yesterday, Verizon Wireless launched their Dashboard? service this past weekend (not to be confused with Apple’s Dashboards widgets).
What is Verizon Wireless Dashboard?
Dashboard creates an ecosystem for consuming, promoting and merchandising VZW’s multimedia content and services.
Dashboard was built on Adobe’s Flash Cast™ platform and leverages their leadership in providing [...]