tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38324612008-05-16T17:02:07.657-07:00Billnoreply@blogger.comBlogger448125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-82321120469216910922008-05-15T11:15:00.000-07:002008-05-15T11:19:35.771-07:00

Exciting times for Flash developers in Taiwan and soon abroad. Chunghwa Telecom, the largest mobile operator in Taiwan, has just launched "Channel Me" which is their branded version of Adobe's Flash Cast solution. Most all of the text and channel content is localized in Traditional Chinese and providers users there with information that's relevant to them. This service launched yesterday with

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-77728305625880646302008-05-12T09:06:00.000-07:002008-05-12T09:07:08.555-07:00

Over the past 5 years I've presented at over 20 conferences around the world and thought it would be beneficial for the community to have access to the presentations. For me it's been an evolution in terms of presentation style, format and substance and I'm continuing to grow and improve. Being able to share my thoughts, our product and technology direction and samples of mobile experiences

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-23866679119513941182008-05-05T15:12:00.000-07:002008-05-05T15:13:33.581-07:00

We have a great new article covering dynamic layouts for Flash Lite applications up on our mobile and devices developer center- check it out! David Brown from Agencynet wrote the article and in it he covers the technical side of things as we walks through some of his AS code he wrote for the Bacardi Mobile application that we've been demoing since February. Sample files are included and the

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-88605686329387010932008-05-01T00:06:00.000-07:002008-04-30T21:06:11.432-07:00

Today we announced the Adobe Open Screen Project which is dedicated to ensuring a consistent rich Internet experience across a broad range of digital screens and form factors including mobile phones, consumer electronics, televisions and personal computers. This experience will be driven by Adobe Flash Player and in the future Adobe AIR and is meant to ensure that designers and developers can

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-24687683962282889342008-04-21T08:48:00.000-07:002008-04-21T08:54:23.777-07:00

A special thanks to Thomas Joos for creating a Flash Lite conference guide for FITC Toronto. Like most conference guides, this mobile version includes information for all of the sessions, room locations, map of the conference location and a basic twitter client to stay in touch with friends- very cool. It will work on all Nokia S60 3rd edition or later devices and you can get more information as

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-41699208504598792242008-04-15T05:55:00.000-07:002008-04-30T20:23:31.668-07:00

Usually I'm asked by developers and business people the following questions "what's the percentage of devices in the US that support Flash Lite" or "how many Nokia S60 devices are there in the UK". Providing this type of information to the community is important and you can now download a two page PDF that contains this information. Data for this PDF was provided by mmetrics and shows the

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-63760748001029321732008-04-14T09:03:00.000-07:002008-04-14T09:03:53.906-07:00

A reminder for those of you who have not yet registered for the Forum Nokia Flash Lite webinar tomorrow (15 April) - you can still sign-up. It will be a one hour webinar that I will be co-presenting with Stephen Ellis from Forum Nokia and we'll be discussing several topics around Flash Lite on Nokia devices including mobile web browsing and content creation. Of course the Q&A portion of the

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-48201953863681884992008-04-06T20:13:00.000-07:002008-04-06T20:19:21.752-07:00

For the month of April, Forum Nokia is dedicating several resources for developers to promote the awareness of their devices that support Flash Lite, tools for creating Flash Lite content and some videos of examples of Flash Lite applications that have been developed. Also check out Kuneri Lite which is a tool set to extend the functionality of Flash Lite on Nokia S60 devices.

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-5638831326665813422008-04-02T18:16:00.000-07:002008-04-10T16:22:14.374-07:00

Good news for those of you who have been following our Flash Cast announcements around Verizon Wireless - you can now start participating! We're really excited about being able to provide more details to developers around creating channels for Dashboard - which is the current name of their implementation of Flash Cast. There is now more details available about Dashboard, the tools for creating

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-42864039390498188132008-03-31T11:22:00.000-07:002008-03-31T11:24:23.451-07:00

This afternoon I'll be heading to Las Vegas to attend CTIA and will be spending most of my time in meetings with partners, customers and new companies who are interested in our mobile solutions. If you're not familiar with CTIA it's one of the largest mobile centric conferences in the US and is held twice a year (spring and fall). Yes there will be an exhibit area and plenty of new things being

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-39437835274567211352008-03-26T13:53:00.000-07:002008-03-26T13:55:05.413-07:00

If you've already downloaded device profile #5 before 18 March you should re-download the .MXP package again. The reason for this is we found some incorrect values for XMLSocket and FLV support for the Nokia N95 profile and have fixed it. Just uninstall #5, and install the new version. For those of you who haven't downloaded the #5 profile this is a friendly reminder ;o)

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-5370558015944874022008-03-19T14:14:00.000-07:002008-03-19T14:19:09.624-07:00

As many of you are aware, yesterday we gave our 2008 Q1 investor relations call and during the Q&A session a question was asked to our CEO Shantanu Narayen about Flash and the iPhone. The conference call has now been posted in its entirety on the Adobe investor relations site: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/08q1analyst/earnings_confcall.html Shantanu’s comments were in response

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-33691660230269568212008-03-16T21:21:00.000-07:002008-03-16T21:26:50.016-07:00

Half a billion or 500 million – no matter how you say it, the number is impressive. Today we’re announcing that Adobe Flash Lite has shipped on over half a billion devices and with 150% growth over last year we expect to reach 1 billion devices by 2010. That’s pretty impressive for a mobile run-time to reach that number in a little over 5 years. Because of our licensing agreements with

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-10440132043109040952008-03-16T21:11:00.000-07:002008-03-16T21:14:32.727-07:00

Today we’re announcing that Microsoft has licensed Flash Lite 3 and Reader LE for future Windows Mobile based devices and adds another supported platform for Flash developers to reach consumers. Flash Lite 3 will be pre-installed in the Internet Explorer Mobile browser on future Windows Mobile devices and will allow consumers with these devices to enjoy the same web experiences anywhere they

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-17534998344774511772008-03-10T12:01:00.000-07:002008-03-10T12:03:43.196-07:00

My first speaking event this year will be at FITC Toronto and my session is titled "Flash Across Screens". In addition to showing how to create Flash Lite content I will be discussing distribution opportunities so developers can understand what options they have. For my session I'll also highlight an example of a developer using the Adobe Flash platform to create multi-screen experiences for

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-73037166304818410202008-03-04T19:11:00.000-08:002008-03-04T19:13:34.305-08:00

Unless you've been away from the internet over the past 24 hours then you've seen news and commentary about Silverlight coming to Nokia devices. With this announcement it validates what we've been doing for the past five years - leveraging our client run-time (Flash Player) for non-PC devices, primarily mobile phones. With Microsoft now porting Silverlight to a mobile phone manufacturer, it may

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-48922735979933241682008-02-29T22:21:00.000-08:002008-02-29T22:32:44.384-08:00

The New York Times has a good article that describes how various handset manufacturers are spending time to understand consumers trends for creating new mobile phones. LG, Nokia and others are mentioned and some of the ideas they come up are based on real world observations of how people actually use their phones. One of the points the author mentions is how most technology-savvy consumers buy

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-37482687528760047222008-02-24T07:22:00.000-08:002008-02-24T07:26:47.623-08:00

For those of you who will be attending FITC Amsterdam and are interested in learning more about creating Flash content and applications for mobile phones, make sure you attend Mark Doherty's session "Flash on Mobile Devices" (Tuesday from 5:15-6:15pm). You can expect to see some cool new examples of Flash Lite applications that have been developed by a wide range of companies and hear how you

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-51351384234884054992008-02-24T07:01:00.000-08:002008-02-24T07:21:51.255-08:00

Good news, I've updated the Flash enabled devices spreadsheet to include several new handsets that were announced two weeks ago at the Mobile World Congress. You can download the PDF and print it out as a reference for understanding what handsets have Flash Lite pre-installed including the version and content type. Here are the updated models counts by grouping: Nokia (73), Sony Ericsson (63),

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-72239974135751230812008-02-14T04:02:00.000-08:002008-02-14T04:10:02.011-08:00

Since late December I've been using Qik (pronounced quick) - a new mobile phone application that allows users to stream live video from their phones and all I can say is 'wow'. It's in alpha now and I've been fortunate enough to be one of the early testers. Qik is so easy to use and knowing that all I need to do to share live video is to press a few buttons and presto - it's live. You can think

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-34848317814896102382008-02-09T21:53:00.000-08:002008-02-09T21:56:53.484-08:00

Carry an extra battery for your phone if you're attending a conference or will be using it for an extended period of time. I can honestly say that this little piece of advice has saved me from embarrassing moments when demoing applications to people and the phone's battery is dead - not cool. When you're at work or home, being able to plug your phone in to charge is second nature. However if

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-27918340784582074182008-02-09T21:24:00.000-08:002008-02-09T22:00:48.474-08:00

I'm here in Barcelona and it's a little bit after 6am Sunday - needless to say jetlag isn't treating me well but today should be the last day of it. With tomorrow being the official start of the Mobile World Congress and over 60,000 attendees it will definitely be a busy and fun four days. Today our team will be running through final preparations for the show, ensuring our booth space and demo

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-55912602952512788182008-02-06T16:37:00.000-08:002008-02-06T16:39:13.872-08:00

Just a quick update for everyone that I've updated the devices with Flash Lite pre-installed spreadsheet to include a few new devices and to make some minor modifications based on feedback from handset manufacturers and developers.

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-82484526035537156472008-02-05T09:21:00.000-08:002008-02-05T09:24:03.617-08:00

Today we've published several new resources to help developers understand the Flash Lite ecosystem and ways in which they can participate: Understanding the Mobile Ecosystem Written by Strategy Analytics, this 30 page PDF primer helps explains the basics of the mobile content marketplace and the options for delivering content to consumers phones. This white paper is not specific to Flash Lite

Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832461.post-80540103955963440912008-01-24T10:03:00.000-08:002008-01-24T10:07:16.763-08:00

Today Nokia announced their Q407 financial earnings report and they reported that in Q407 they shipped 133.5 million devices which is 40% of all devices shipped globally in that quarter (336 million). Here are some highlights from 2007 compared to 2006:

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