Archive for January, 2010
BlocketPC – DeviceDays at Mobile World Congress 2010
Posted by Mark Doherty in Conference, Flash Player, Industry News, Mobile Content, Mobile World Congress on January 20, 2010
The Mobile World Congress is a massive event with some 50,000 attendees from around the world. Each year there are around 50 Adobe employees from across the organization in attendance, including all the key members of the platform team at Adobe.
This year we’ve managed to delay a few flights and tweak some schedules to create a fantastic line up for the Spanish Mobile and Devices User Group event “DeviceDays”. Raul, Marcos and myself will be joined by Richard Galvan, Product Manager for Flash Professional, Enrique Duvos who leads Evangelism in EMEA.
I’m also really excited to tell you that some of our Open Screen Project partners, and advertising aggregation providers GreyStripe will attend as guests. You’ll get a chance to speak with them directly, and additionally GreyStripe will present on ad-funded applications.. really exciting!
This day long event will be ~70% in Spanish, so a great improvement from last year 
Timing/location:
- Torre Mapfre – Avinguda Litoral, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
- 09.30am – 5.00pm 19th February
- Space for 100 attendees
Note: Passing security takes time, arrive 15-30 mins early.
Schedule:
- 09.30am Welcome intro from Marcos and Raul
- 10.00am Overview of Adobe’s announcements at Mobile World Congress
- 10.30am BREAK
- 11.30am Open Screen Project new and Fund update, demos of funded applications
- 12.30am Contextual Applications – best practices, optimizations and inspirational demos
- 14.00pm LUNCH
- 15.00pm Testing Flash based applications with Device Central 3
- 15.30pm Creating iPhone applications with Flash Professional Next
- 16.00pm BREAK
- 16.15pm Creating ad-supported iPhone Applications with GreyStripe
- 16.45pm Closing remarks from Marcos and Raul
The event website is here, so start registering.
Adobe @ Mobile World Congress 2010: Free Tickets ;-)
Posted by Mark Doherty in Flash Player, Industry News, Mobile Content, Mobile World Congress on January 14, 2010
“Any Device” , that’s our tag line for this years Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Given the huge investments with our Open Screen Project partners in 2009/2010, you can imagine that this will be our most important event in the mobile calendar.
The Mobile World Congress is a chance for OEMs, Chipset Vendors, Carriers, Content Providers and Developers to meet up and decide the future of our ecosystem. For the past two years that I’ve attended we have gone from 400million devices with Flash, to over 1.2Billion, and this year will see a massive step change in our strategy with the launch of Flash Player 10.1.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayan will be on site to talk with our industry partners, and to discuss key challenges in the mobile and devices ecosystem, and in particular, how we’re working to solve these issues with our Open Screen Project partnerships.
We’ll be showing Flash Player 10.1 experiences optimized for various devices platforms like Android, Palm and Windows Mobile. Our booth will be packed with demos of multi-screen contextual experiences, including Flash applications running on the iPhone, games running across platforms, the Digital Home and we’ll be showing off Device Central CS5 too.
With this being such a big event for us, we thought it would be nice for Flash developers to share this experience with us. So if you want to come along on us, and see the whole event for free then send us an email with your name, company, email address.
For more information and updates then check out our micro-site for the event.
CES 2010: Light Blue Optics launch “Light Touch”
Posted by Mark Doherty in Conference, Devices, Flash Lite, Flash Player, Industry News on January 12, 2010
CES 2010 in Las Vegas saw a very interesting device launch from UK based Light Blue Optics. The great news is that they’ve received really positive press and comments from users that are eager to get their hands on the Light Touch.
So what is it? Effectively it’s a projector for rich media, but it’s laser based which gives it the ability to project onto different surfaces while maintaining a sharp focus and bright colours. LBO used the Flash Platform to provide a rich user interface engine for applications, games, photos and even H.264 video playback. The device is also multi-touch enabled using infra-red, but employs an invisible grid projection onto the surface, which enables much more accurate and speedy response times.
As a user you can envisage a huge array of different use cases, maybe your calendar projected onto your desk, or video playing on your bedroom wall. We saw a huge array of 3D TVs, ever larger, thinner and brighter televisions this year at CES. Could the future require no screen at all?
Just think of the options for this kind of device in the auto-industry, gaming and entertainment. The great news is that the device spec’s make it capable of running Flash Player 10.1 in the future, reaping the benefits of our consistent Open Screen Project runtime for all platforms.
Specs:
- Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 on WinCE 5
- ARM11 CPU @ 600Mhz
- 10-inch touchscreen with WVGA resolution
- Laser based pico projection
- Infrared multi-touch detection
- WiFi and Bluetooth radios
- 2GB of on-board storage (+ microSD)
Check it out in action:
Palm Pre – Progress Update
Posted by Mark Doherty in Flash Player, Industry News, Palm on January 8, 2010
The last time we had a Palm update we saw the Flash Player running in multiple cards (application instances) on Web OS. We had made great progress with the pause and resume functionality, to fit in with the unique nature of WebOs multi-tasking capabilities.
At CES 2010 Palm talked publicly about the availability of the Flash Player 10.1 for their devices. The intention is to ship it as part of an OS update, and also in their App Store so that users can install the player as required (if they already have the OS update for example). So you can start to see the promise of the Open Screen Project taking shape, Flash Player 10.1 updates over-the-air for all Palm users. Additionally Palm indicated that they are going to ship “soon”.
At MAX we still had some work to do with Palm to tidy up certain features, hardware acceleration for video and providing a full screen experience for games and video playback.
In this update video Adrian shows the progress made in the last few months around gaming site optimization.
Enjoy!
Mobile World Congress – App Planet Invites
Posted by Mark Doherty in Flash Player on January 7, 2010
Working with our Open Screen Project partners RIM, I have some special passes worth €599 for the upcoming 2010 Mobile World Congress on February 15-18.
These passes will give you access to the exhibit as well as the new App Planet, where you can learn all about developing for various platforms including Blackberry and of course Flash.
I’m looking in particular for advanced developers, and business owners that are keen to develop for Blackberry devices in the coming year. The lucky winners will merely have to cover your basic travel costs.
Leave a comment below and I’ll get back to you.
[UPDATE: The deadline has now passed]