Serge showed us a 3rd party product called ELIPS here at MultiMania, which is apparently a product in development by a company in France called Open-Plug. “ELIPS, the first open software Framework and MMI designed for mass market phones. The Open-Plug ELIPS Product Suite relies on a unique component technology , which drastically simplifies and [...]

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 [...]

Via Mark and a few other community members, Adobe has announced Adobe Mobile Packager 1.1 Beta will be available soon. “In this release we focused our efforts on created a cleaner installation, creation and signing workflow for the tool. We received a lot of feedback regarding the difficulties in getting setup and producing your mobile [...]

untravelmedia has posted an article on “Advancing mobile storytelling with Adobe’s distributable player solution”. “Untravel worked with the distributable player solution group at Adobe to create a multimedia guide that allowed attendees to quickly browse the hundreds of sessions, events, and workshops at the conference. The guide also had short speaker videos linked to the [...]

Forum Nokia has made their presentations materials from the OVI Store event last month available online: 02-Introduction-to-Nokia.pdf  03-Nokia-OVI-Store.pdf  04-Case-Study-Earthcomber.pdf  05-Case-Study-MoBlast.pdf  06-Introduction-to-Contract-Developers.pdf   07-S60-Web-Runtime.pdf  08-Flash-Lite-and-Open-Screen-Project-Fund.pdf  09-Call-to-Action.pdf  

Via Alessandro and Nokia Conversations: Ovi Store 101 for Developers – Long Version Ovi Store 101 for Developers- Short Version

There are 2 live Nokia webinars for Apirl 9, 2009: Publishing to Ovi: Reach Millions of Nokia Users Starting in May, developers will be able to reach tens of millions of Nokia users worldwide through the new Ovi Store. But if you want consumers to discover and download your applications from the Ovi Store, you’ll [...]

OVI will offer mobile content distribution in 2009 Last October of 2008, I was presenting at a Flash Lite Code Camp here in Boston with a bunch of other developers. Of course, at the time, Apple’s AppStore was seeing a lot of hype here in the US, but you if you had 1/2 a brain, [...]

Serge Jesper (Adobe) created a brief video tutorial on how to package mobile content (Flash Lite 3.1) using the recent public release of Adobe Mobile Packager, which generates deployable content (in this case .sis for Symbian based S60 Nokia, but it also currently supports .CAB for Windows Mobile) as part of the Adobe Distributable Player [...]

It’s not really surprising to hear about Enadget reporting a supposed Nokia Symbian-based “appStore” (that would mostly likely be announced, if not launched by Mobile World Congress). Well, they already have had the community driven Nokia MOSH for a while now in trials, so perhaps they’ve learned a lot of lessons and are prepared to [...]