Next monday, Felipe Andrade and myself will be leading a 20 hours Flash Lite course during the whole week at the Pernambuco State University (UPE) in Brazil. The course will be directed to a specific audience of 15 students with special interests in mobile development. At the end of the course participants will be able [...]

The Macromedia Mobile User Group of Boston is sponsoring a Flash Lite Application contest. The contest is open to everyone who wants to develope a Flash Lite application. Please visit the following page for more information.
The contest will end November 25th 2005 and the winner will be announced the first week of December. The price [...]

Well, this is my little hello to the FlashMobileGroup, so I thought I would try and make it of some use by posting on a couple of Flash Lite related happenings in the past week, so here we go…

Hi all!
There´ll be a Flash Lite course in Finland:
Time: 15/11/2005, Helsinki, Finland
Trainer: Markku Hyttinen / Aniway Ltd.
Training place & organizer: FCS Partners Oyj
Link to the course (only in Finnish):
Cheers,
Miikka Lyytikainen / Aniway

The Macromedia Mobile User Group is holding next meeting on Thursday 22nd September at Dillon on Boylston street, next to the old firehouse around 6:30 PM.
Alessandro

Macromedia is going to have two seminars on Flash Lite development using Flash Professional 8 on September 28 and 29:
Creating compelling content for mobile devices with Flash Professional 8
Alessandro

Macromedia Italy released a great news, the first course for Flash Lite developers is offered by HTML.it and Genesoft. The course teacher is Marco, one of our remote members and a great Flash Lite evangelist !!!
This is great news, courses will be a great tool to promote Flash Lite technology.
Great work Marco !!
Alessandro

Deardorff Communications has released a Flash Lite conference guide for this years MAX conference. The application allows users to browse each days itinerary, look up session details, read speaker bios, and see a map of the surrounding area all from a Flash Lite enabled phone.
Download it, install it, and enjoy the conference!
Michael Hagel

Rich, one of our world members, will present at the Macromedia User Group of London, and demonstrate the use of Flash 8 IDE for Flash Lite development. The presentation will cover:

The mobile emulator: allowing you to test your content on multiple devices without spending a fortune.
The new improved content bundler: which lets you bundle device [...]

David post a great news on the Flash Lite Yahoo Group.
NTT DoCoMo is going to release new phones with the i-channel service. This service is build on top of Flash Cast and Flash Lite technologies.

The i-channels can be launched directly from a dedicated button on the phone.

This demonstrate that NTT DoCoMo is buying into Flash [...]