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 [...]

Kind of old news this past week, but: “Mobile leaders to unify the Symbian software platform and set the future of mobile free” … but I wanted to post about the deal that was announced not too long ago … because it will be very important to the evolving mobile device platform playing field (IMHO).
If [...]

Bill updated his ongoing Flash Enabled Handset spreadsheet (PDF).
Current #’s of Flash enabled handsets as of June 25, 2008 are:
85 Nokia
71 Sony Ericsson
13 Verizon
149 NTT DoCoMo
110 KDDI
and 60 Softbank handsets.
All the info is in the PDF.
Report all discrepancies and updates to Bill via his blog.

OK. So, “it”, The Adobe Open Screen Project, or AOSP has just been officially announced over at Adobe:
What is it? What does it mean on a high level?

The Open Screen Project is dedicated to driving consistent rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics.
The Open Screen Project is supported by [...]

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 files of [...]

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 Phones [...]

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 Japanese mobile content [...]

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 terminals [...]

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
Product Support Representative : Answers [...]

Bill Perry (Adobe MaD) updated his Flash Enabled Devices spreadsheet, recently. You can
download it here.
The break down is: Nokia (73), Sony Ericsson (63), Verizon Wireless (13), NTT DoCoMo (134), KDDI (101), and Softbank (48).
This also reflects some additional devices that were announced at Mobile World Congress 2008.
If you are already referencing this spreadsheet to [...]