Mobile Marketing Blog by Punchkick Interactive » Java

Sony Ericsson Brings Flash Lite Support to Java ME — Allowing Flash Lite to be Packaged as a Java JAR File

Ryan Unger — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:15:12 +0000

This is very exciting news as I can’t think of a single thing that could more quickly expand the reach of Flash Lite. Sony Ericsson announced today at its Developer World conference plans for a new technology that bridges Adobe Flash Lite and Java ME development platforms. The technology, called Project Capuchin, allows Java ME (formerly known [...]

New Video Outlines Mobile Marketing Law and the Issues that Marketers Face with SMS Messaging

Ryan Unger — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:55:35 +0000

Adriana Gil Miner created a great video for her blog, Digital Ecologist, outlining today’s issues with SMS spam, privacy, and how mobile marketing law in the United States may be influenced over the next several years by the CAN SPAM Act. This follows up on Pogue’s Post about The Worst Spam Ever. Learn more about Punchkick [...]

Why a True Apple Fan Would Never Buy an iPhone

Zak Dabbas — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:35:32 +0000

It’s been called the Second Coming—a gadget so revolutionary that people literally fall to their knees in praise of its magnificence. And why shouldn’t they? It’s from Apple, the same company that heroically unshackled us from the misery that is Windows. Apple opened our eyes to a whole new world of computing, one where fantastic [...]

What are your favorite mobile Web sites? Do you actually use the mobile Web?

Ryan Unger — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:42:27 +0000

I am trying to get a feel of who actually uses the mobile Web and what your favorite mobile Web sites are. Some good ones that I have seen are mobile.google.com and mobile.nikebasketball.com. Please don’t be shy—post your best and worst mobile Web site examples. If you vote on the poll, I’d love to hear why [...]

Is Flyer worth the hype?

Ryan Unger — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:22:16 +0000

Polls – Take Our Poll Felipe Andrade created Flyer for Flash Lite using Python for Nokia S60. The Flyer framework is great—it lets you access never before seen features with Flash Lite such as integrating with a mobile device’s camera, bluetooth, filesystem, (potentially) GPS, and much more. But is Flyer worth all [...]

Bluestreak’s MachBlue now available in Java to run Flash-formatted files on mobile

Ryan Unger — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:08:04 +0000

Bluestreak Technology, Inc., the developer of the award-winning MachBlue™ platform for mobile phones and digital television, announced this week that MachBlue Mobile will be commercially available for J2ME-compatible mobile phones. MachBlue Mobile implements a subset of the Flash 7 specification, supplemented with the MachBlue Mobile API enabling enhanced handset control and integration. MachBlue’s unique APIs give complete [...]

Sad. Very sad. The iPhone may not be Flash enabled.

Ryan Unger — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:11:38 +0000

According to Pogue’s Posts (Tech editor for the NY Times), The iPhone does not and will not run Flash. It makes sense from a marketing perspective—keep out free games, apps, and videos—but this makes me sad. Here is an excerpt from Pogue’s article (p.s. He actually played with one): Can it be used with anything but Cingular? [...]

Flash Lite Search Engine

Ryan Unger — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:29:04 +0000

I have created a customized search engine using Google Co-op that searches only sites that will have relevant content relating to Flash Lite. The Flash Lite search engine can be used by following this link: Flash® Lite™ search engine.