New Adobe Device Central update

[From Mark Doherty]
There is a new Adobe Device Central update regarding the N95 8GB device profile.
XMLSocket and Flash Video support have been fixed.
Here the updated profile.

It’s time of MAX2008/2009: cities announced

It seems yesterday that we were at Chicago Max, but Max 2008 is already in the pipeline.
The Max 2008 cities have been officially announced:
- November 16 – 19, 2008: MAX 2008 North America, San Francisco, California
- December 1 – 4, 2008: MAX 2008 Europe, Milan, Italy
- January 29 – 30, 2009: MAX 2008 Japan, [...]

Nokia Flash Lite and Widget Code Camps

[From Dale Rankine ]
Forum Nokia will be presenting a series of free Code Camps in April focusing on Flash Lite and Widgets (Web Run Time). The events are on the 3rd in Sydney (Australia) and the 9th in Bangalore (India).
Moket will be part of the one-day session in Sydney aimed at educating mobile developers on [...]

Mobref: mobile phones & devices reference guide

I recently discovered MobRef.  The site has many statistics about the mobile phone market. The statistics are collected from GetJar web site.  GetJar offers free downloads of mobile content (Flash Lite games and applications too) and with 5.000.000 downloads per month we would have to say it is very popular and reliable.
The statistics include manufacturer, [...]

Nokia to bring Microsoft Silverlight: new Flash Lite competitor

Nokia today announced plans to make Microsoft Silverlight available for S60 on Symbian OS as well as for Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets.
Here the official Nokia press.
Microsoft will show Silverlight on S60 during the opening keynote at Microsoft’s MIX08 conference.
Silverlight is certainly a new competitor for Flash Lite and its worldwide spreading.