I'm in a Flash game!!

This is so cool, Dale Rankine of Monket fame has built a Flashlite 1.1 game for webDU (only two sleeps to go) called "Celebrity Head".

Presented with caricatures of webDU presenters, lovingly done by the folk at Nectarine, you have to guess who the presenter is to earn points.

You can download the Flash Lite game from here: http://www.moket.com/webDU/

Is Australia About to Go Nuts With New Flash Enabled Mobile Phones En Mass?

Possible good news for Macromedia - Telstra, Australia's largest telco, announced last week that they're planning to ditch their current GSM, CDMA & recently introduced 3G mobile phone networks and implement instead a low-frequency GSM network. This will mean that 8.4 million mobile phone users will need to replace their existing mobile phones by 2008.

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i-mode Content Partners Announced for Australia

Telstra, Australia's largest telco, announced yesterday that they have an agreement in principal with Turner Broadcasting to provide content for their new i-mode mobile network to launch later this year.

This deal means that subscribers to the i-mode network will get access to the delights of both CNN and the Cartoon Network on their i-mode handset once available.

Telstra says that Turner Broadcasting is just one of a number of content partners that they have lined up for the October launch of their i-mode service, you can read the announcement here (while you're checking it out, make sure that you notice that their corporate communications site is ColdFusion powered).

If you haven't checked out what i-mode will mean for Flash developers you should take the time to have a look at the Mobile and Devices Developer Center at Macromedia, there's a special section there just on i-mode, link here.