So, if you haven’t heard the news, Bill Perry is moving from Adobe into Nokia. All the details are here on his blog.
Congrats to Bill, and be sure to wish him all the best in his new role at Nokia!

I started a uservoice community group on Adobe Flash Lite:
flashlite.uservoice.com(use for Flash Lite specific materials)
I also created one called Flash MaD for any comments, concerns, or issues regarding the mobile and device technology that comes out of Adobe.
flashMaD.uservoice.com(use for general feedback)
Those that are unfamiliar with uservoice:
“Harness the Wisdom of your crowd
» Listen to your users [...]

Via Bill, some info about how LG is utilizing Flash Lite for UI across over 100 devices, and Adobe now has a case study about it.
“As Adobe Flash and Adobe Flash Lite have evolved into a complete application development platform, we are able to realize great opportunities in bringing our collective knowledge about the web [...]

Bill Perry is featured on the MAX site talking about what goes on at Adobe MAX, and what to expect at the Mobile and Device sessions, as well as the rest of the conference.

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 [...]

According to Bill, Shantanu (Adobe, CEO) reported 800 million at his CTIA keynote in San Francisco this week (Sept 2008).
Yes, that’s 800,000,000, or more than 1/2 billion devices that have shipped to date. I imagine, look for a press release (perhaps) soon.
Earlier this year, Adobe had stated they were estimated to make 1 billion devices [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Recently, I came across dabbledb, while investigating (simple) online tools to visualize data …

“Dabble DB helps you create online databases on the web. It’s easy to use yet extremely flexible and powerful.”
Anyways, I was looking for some data to put into it to test it out and get more aquatinted with what dabble had to [...]

According to some updated data from Bill, there are now 19 mobile devices on the Verizon network which are BREW enabled and support Flash Lite (2.1) content.
So, 6 additional devices have been certified and extensions are now available).
Here they are:
 · LG VX5300 (added)
 · LG VX8700 (added)
 · LG VX8350 (added)
 · Motorola RAZR V9m (added)
 · Samsung SCH-U740 [...]