New Flash Lite News

'Tis the season for new announcements! Don't you love it when a big conference rolls around and all the big boys who have been saving up their fireworks let them all out of the bag. Well 3GSM has started with a bang, with the announcemnt first of Flash Lite 3. The new release is centered around the support for FLV - Flash Video. This means that your FL content will be ableto work in with Flash Media Server and other streaming services, plus leverage the massive amount of FLV content that is in the market these days (anyone heard of a little site called YouTube?).

Flash Home is the other "product" that was unveiled - a customisable Flash Lite home screen for your device. This is a white label product that is pitched for carriers, MVNO's, etc. Some of the key features are:

• Flexible, data-enabled home screens
• On-device catalog for easy discovery, preview, and management of home screens
• Support for rich media, including FLV files, text, audio, and vector graphics
• Over-the-air updates of branded user interfaces
• Extensible architecture
• Powerful mobile authoring capabilities

I'm sure there'll be more coming soon! Stay tuned party people ...