Korean manufacturer Cowon recently announced that its Q5W portable media player will be available for the American market. This PMP runs windows CE, has Wi-Fi and a touch screen interface. Q5W comes with Flash 7 pre-installed. I think this is the first Cowon device to support Flash. Cowon seems to associate Flash with both web browsing and games capability.

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I’ve been researching issues related to creating and distributing Flash Lite screensaver/wallpaper content types for the various platforms. I am going post my observations about each platform (s60, series40, SE), starting with Sony Ericsson.

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The Interactive Audio Special Interest Group (IASIG) recently published its Mobile Audio Technologies Report & Recommendations, for which I was a contributing author.

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Gamesondeck.com recently published my interview with Nathan Charles from the Khronos group, regarding the new OpenSL ES sound api specification for mobile devices such as phones and personal media players. Khronos is the organization behind the industry standard OpenGL graphics api specification.

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Here is an update for those who like to keep up on the “trickle” of new GSM Flash Lite phones entering the North American market through network operators.

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