LBSZone Alert - LBS Industry update for week of Oct 3, 2007
Written by Spatial Media LLC
Wednesday, 03 October 2007
Hello from Spatial Media... Wow, I go away for one day and look what
happens... I'm sitting in on a meeting with some Forum Nokia execs at Adobe MAX
and they ask me if I've heard that Nokia bought Navteq... I almost dropped! I
I heard the big news while getting the low-down on what Nokia will be doing with
Flash and more specifically Flash Lite now at release 3. IMHO this is also
pretty huge when you consider this, Nokia is essentially an Internet company
(and you thought they simply made phones!). With some 900 million Nokia devices
out there the company now boasts an even larger developer community (3.4 million
Forum Nokia members + the Navteq developer base) the company is the largest
enabler of Internet connectivity out there. With a firm commitment to shipping
Flash 3 enabled devices and now the assets and geospatial data holdings of
Navteq thrown into the mix you can see how significant developing for the mobile
device user is going to be. Enter Adobe... I admit I'm not terribly familiar
with their portfolio, but after yesterday I'm convinced that the application
devlopment tools they are providing are second to none.
It was first
thing Monday morning when I saw the announcement... Forum Nokia had launched a
new developer community, one focused on Flash and dedicated to helping the
developer port Adobe Flash content to the mobile environment... pretty huge
really! The developer portal is part of a larger mandate of the company to
support Adobe Flash Lite 3.0 as part of a strategy to deliver a rich Internet
experience to Nokia device users. So to recap, simply put, the Creative Pros
developer community now exists to help the developer optimize existing Flash
desktop content for the latest Nokia mobile devices. See www.forum.nokia.com/creativepros.
If your at all curious about these developments then I urge you to check out a
few of the useful resources that these players offer. These include Forum Nokia; Nokia Creative Pros Community (for everything and anything mobile and Flash!); MOSH (think mobilize and share); The Adobe Developer Connection; Adobe AIR Developer Center (useful
for Flex, Flash or HTML/Ajax developers). Stay tuned for more on this. Not
interested in mobile geospatial application development yet? Perhaps you
should be
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