AIR and Flash Player 10 on mobile is a big deal. The Google Android creator Andy Rubin was on stage talking about Flash Player 10 running on Android. There was also a demo of installing Flash Lite apps over the air on Windows Mobile and Symbian. About time.
More importantly, Adobe and ARM are partnering up and will bring the full Player 10 to a lot of smartphones. Adobe can also deliver Player 10 for the Jesus Phone - but Steve Jobs needs to give it the ok first. Apple's loss (and mine) if you ask me.
Thermo is now called Flash Catalyst. Nice piece of toolkit, rubbish name.
A 64bit preview release of Flash Player 10 for Linux is available now on Labs.
Cocomo is in public beta, but I told you that already.
Last but not least, Major League Baseball (MLB.com) are switching back to Flash for all their video broadcasts, dropping Silverlight in the process. That's quite a big deal since MLB have made a serious investment in Windows Media. Since their service is pay per view one must assume that they are quite happy with the level of protection Flash video offers them.
http://adobe.com/go/stratus/
In a session entitled "Future of Communication with RTMFP" FMS team member Matthew Kaufman provided details on the new Stratus service. More details to come in the Tuesday keynotes and Sneak Peeks.
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I know there's some "MLB back to Flash" talk out there, but their video workflow was always Windows Media, and their UIs have been Flash-based for years. What changed last year was MLB.com accepted Silverlight clients as well as Windows Media Player clients for their video, to make things easier for their non-Windows audience. Excellent Feb08 info from the MLB.com team at InfoQ:
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/mlb-silverlight
The big chunk of work in this new arrangement is moving their back-end video architecture into a Flash-based workflow. Sounds like they've found a way to do it for the 2009 season. Very heartening.
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