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Silverlight on Nokia – What It Means for Flash Lite Developers

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A nice post via bill comparing “Silverlight on Nokia – What It Means for Flash Lite Developers” Bill gives some thoughts and views how a developer can be effected or may be intrested using new technologies and what kind of strategy Adobe is applying to promote Flash lite. a long way to go.

Some of the points:

If you’re a mobile developer or business decision maker considering any technology for mobile development then there are questions that you should have:

  • What’s the addressable market supporting the technology
  • What’s the designer/developer workflow
  • What tools do I need
  • Can I leverage my skills or do I need to learn new ones
  • How do I distribute my content
  • Is the content inside/outside the mobile browser
  • What’s the developer community like
  • Can I reuse assets from the web
  • Can this technology allow me to have a multi-screen experience

Well!! i love Adobe Flash lite and it really gives me more ways to express my creativity which i love it 🙂 not sure how silverlight will be promising to me!!

vivek

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Art in Mobile: LG Electronics mobile contents competition includes Adobe Flash lite section

LG Mobile content competition

Via Eung i got this news that LG Electronics in association with mutualresponse Launched “Art in Mobile” a mobile content competition which include Adobe Flash lite section. It’s great to see growing Adobe flash lite everywhere.

This page is in Korean language, i tried translating this page but not be able to get much details about it. It will be great if someone gives detail information about it.

I love to participate in such design competition and great to show what i love to do 🙂

Read complete details here

vivek

Playyoo Launch Contest Winners Announced

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Playyoo, the largest collection of free Flash Lite games online today announced winners
The results are based only on community activity. From various measures, we derive a “game popularity index”. The algorithm for this has been enhanced over time to improve the fairness and balance. Clearly, game quality is a big factor in winning!!

The Winners are:
1. Match the Blocks a game by Samir won $10,000
2. The Empty Space a game by Loomand won $7,000
3. Panic Mechanic a game by marc won $3,000
4. qTile a game by ptm won $1,500
5. Ludo Cells a game by Samir
6. Mr. Shooti a game by Roozbeh won $1,000
7. Think Fast a game by izam won $500
8. Bog Frog a game by Ekleptica won $500
9. Fill Board a game by Samir
10. SokoLite a game by ptm won $500
11. Orang Bunian a game by Faisal Arbain won $500
12. Sketch Mini a game by santoki won $500
13. Sushi Mushi Mania a game by marc
14. Mondo Under a game by bitacora13
15. The Bee Game a game by lfons
16. UFO Catcher: Barnyard Abduction a game by Naz
17. Sea Combat a game by Mariam Dholkawala
18. Trop Tris a game by CreativeSource
19. Mr. Cease Fire a game by HungamaMobile
20. Shark-Thrasher a game by digitallamb

Read contest page for more info.

vivek

MobileMonday Tokyo 2008 Peer Awards Competition includes Flash lite too

MobileMonday Tokyo 2008 Peer Awards Competition

Mobikyo Announces the MobileMonday Tokyo 2008 Peer Awards Competition. Candidate companies must fall into one of three categories

– Start-ups: Recently founded with early-stage financing
– Emerging: Operating between Series A & B funding
– Academic: Students in an accredited University program

There is no restriction on the business model, platform or market segment. Whether you have a content, service or application, targeted at B2B or B2C customers and/or running on Java, Brew, Symbian or Flash, you can submit (note, with respect to going global, presentations must be made in English).

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Widgets and Flash Lite Code Camps in the APAC

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Via Biskero, Forum Nokia is organizing a Widgets and Flash Lite Code Camps in the APAC region. It will be held at Sydney, Singapore and Bangalore.During the camp, you’ll be overloaded with how-to tutorials, intensive discussion with our Code Camp leaders, plus hands-on experience with coding mobile applications yourself. Quite cool to see such camps happening in India, Bangalore 🙂

Moket will be the guest speaker at the Sydney code camp. The Bangalore guest speaker is still to be decided!!

Place: Sydney, Australia
Date: 3rd April
Fee: AUD 20
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Place: BANGALORE, INDIA
Date: 9th APRIL
Fee: INR 2,000

I will be there, hope to see creative people around, catch me 🙂

Register for event here and details.

vivek

Flash Lite: Effectively using gotoAndPlay & gotoAndStop

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Faisal posted his first Flash Lite tips’n tricks in Nokia forum about how effectively one can use using gotoAndPlay & gotoAndStop as Flash Lite 1.1 supports pre-AS1 Flash 4 scripting syntax, the developer have to use tellTarget statement to access objects from deferent object.

This trick is quite useful when you have to do a quick goto action, but if you need to perform multiple actions, then you’re good to go with tellTarget.

Love to see more tips and tricks from Faisal 🙂

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vivek

On2 Technology Included in Adobe Flash Lite 3 Application

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On2 Technologies announced that it has licensed its optimized TrueMotion(R) VP6(TM) video decoder software to Sony for use in its mylo communicator “COM-2” device.

The COM-2 uses On2’s TrueMotion VP6 decoder with Adobe(R) Flash(R) Lite 3 software, and provides access to videos posted on Flash-based web sites. When connected to a wi-fi hotspot, the mylo communicator can also upload and download content to and from the Web using the touch screen interface on its 3.5-inch high-resolution display. By integrating an optimized version of On2’s VP6 decoder, the mylo communicator users have the ability to enjoy web based video content, while on-the-go.

“We continue to improve the quality of our video solutions for leading handheld device manufacturers, and the mylo communicator is one of the best examples of mobile video products on the market today,” said Bill Joll, president and CEO of On2 Technologies. “Most of the leading user-generated content web sites today use our Flix Engine product and VP6 compression scheme to create and publish video, and we see the market trends moving toward mobile video sharing and consumption.”

I think trend to see video on mobile is going to be a big hit in current year. 🙂

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vivek

Adobe Device Central – Profile Update 5 features the first Flash Lite 3.0 devices available in the market.

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Via Mark Doherty, Adobe Device Central – Profile Update 5 is available for download and This update features the first Flash Lite 3.0 devices available in the market.
It’s very Important! Before downloading Update #4, you must FIRST download and install the Flash® Liteâ„¢ 3 Update for Device Central CS3 and for Flash CS3 Professional (2 separate updates).

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Adobe Pitches New Flash Streaming Platform as iPhone Killer for Mobile Operators

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Adobe unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a new client/server streaming media delivery platform with a new mobile profile built to Adobe’s server backend is designed to enable personalize-able user interfaces (UIs) that can be branded by operators and delivered over the air to subscriber phones.

The new mobile profile client software empowers mobile operators to monetize the UI “in the way that ringtones and wall papers are monetized,” says Anup Murarka, director of technical marketing for Adobe’s mobile and devices unit. “You can make the entire UI brandable and we think there is a revenue opportunity there. For operators, we also can elevate key data services to the top of the UI, so you don’t force users to drill down to discover hot new services.”

It’s intresting that people are talking more about mobile experiences and “The evolution of mobile has changed with the iPhone” how it can be improve more or give a another great user experiences to mobile users. Intresting! 🙂

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vivek

Netbiscuits Embraces Adobe Flash and AJAX to Enable Rich Content for the Mobile Web

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Just Found this another news from PRNewswire that Netbiscuits is the first mobile software development platform to support Adobe Flash and AJAX technologies for developers to create the next-generation Mobile Internet experience. Now, media, content and advertising professionals have a full solution to deliver high-quality, tailored Web experiences that incorporate mobile advertising and shopping on virtually any mobile device.

The integration of Adobe Flash and AJAX expands the unique Biscuits concept inherent to the Netbiscuits platform, giving developers the toolkit needed to create a wide range of Mobile Internet applications including mobile advertising landing pages, content shops, audio and video downloads and more. The resulting high-end user interfaces, convenient rich media integration and visual effects virtually guarantee a more satisfying and productive consumer experience on the mobile Web.
“Netbiscuits is committed to improving the development of high quality mobile Web sites that achieve a faster path to profit from mobile Internet programs,” said Michael Neidhoefer, CEO of Dynetic Solutions, the company behind Netbiscuits. “By delivering Flash embedded in browser-based mobile applications, Netbiscuits has taken another critical step in building a mobile Web that is as rich and accessible as the PC-based Internet experience.”

The other intresting things which i found about this company is the platform integrates Bango’s mobile payment system for worldwide mobile billing and combines it with a new “Content-Shop-Biscuit.” so sailing of ringtones, wallpapers, videos can be done easily.

You can see live flash demo: hall 7, booth 7B70 in Mobile World Congress.

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vivek

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Adobe Launches Flash Home and Flash Cast 2 at Mobile World Congress

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Adobe today announced that major content providers, including MTV Networks, the Nasdaq Stock Market, eBay, Reuters, Dolce & Gabbana and others are using the company’s Flash Player compatible mobile products and solutions to extend their brands to the handheld market. Leading companies are adopting Adobe® Flash® Home, a new mobile application for rich, dynamic home screens, and Adobe Flash® Cast™ 2 technology, the next generation offline portal solution, to deliver high-impact user experiences and provide instant access to data services.

The new Adobe Flash Home application combines customizable data-enabled wallpapers and home screens with live data services to provide users with more personalized mobile experiences.
Flash Cast 2 delivers rich, easy-to-use data services through mobile applications such as news, sports or entertainment channels.Licensed by operators like NTT DoCoMo, Verizon Wireless and Chunghwa Telecom, Flash Cast offers operators the ability to tailor mobile experiences based on subscriber’s profiles and device capabilities while reaching high volume, mass-market handsets.

I must say this is what i was waiting for to design more engaging experiences for Mobile and devices. Great news!! 🙂

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vivek

Nokia Maps 2.0 hits beta release

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Nokia Maps 2.0 hits beta release

Nokia Maps is approaching the release of its second major version (2.0). a semi-public beta.The new version brings a number of improvements which includes a new pedestrian mode, enhanced driving navigation mode, satellite maps, much improved search and new real time traffic information.
Some details on features are:

  • The driving navigation interface has been much enhanced, with proper turn indicators and transparent panels.
  • There’s a new pedstrian mode (Walk), with no voice instructions but with “breadcrumbs” that are shown where you have been walking so you can easily see what direction to take. (Walk is included in the driving navigation license for car navigation but can also be purchased separately at a lower cost).
  • Satellite maps are now included (Google Maps) for 200 cities worldwide. The satellite maps are downloaded over the air and are saved automatically. Next time you start Maps, the satellite maps will be there, no need to download them again. There’s a hybrid view that combines satellite view with the regular maps.
  • Improved search function with results listed by categories (i.e. streets, restaurants, towns).
  • Improved places (landmarks) functionality. Places can be saved as favourites and collections (folders) created.
  • Upgrade facilities are provided to convert old navigation licenses and maps to the newer formats. There’s also a companion (new version of the) MapLoader utility.
  • There’s real time traffic information handling that allows dynamic rerouting of navigation. This is available for 18 European countries and is a premium addon.

See how it works & download

vivek