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July 2004

Thursday 29 July

  • Motorola v710 Phone, with QUALCOMM's BREW (16:55) - The Motorola v710 will be available from Verizon on September 11th, according to reliable forum sources. However, it can be purchased at many Radio Shack stores around the country now. It has BREW 2.1, a megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and a... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Spiderman 2 for your Mobile Phone (07:46) - IndiaGames, the developers of J2ME, BREW, I-Mode and Symbian games has entered into an agreement with Columbia Pictures Industries Inc., and Marvel comics to bring "Spiderman 2" to the wireless arena. Two games will be developed. One is a... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Best Open Source Symbian OS Project Competition (07:33) - Symbian OS community web site NewLC is running a competition to find the best Open Source Symbian OS projects, with some great prizes from Nokia and Symbian on offer. Find out more from SymbianOne, where they've done an interview... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 28 July

  • Jacado Releases Strike Fighter for J2ME (13:41) - Straight from Israel comes a new air warfare game for J2ME. The game itself takes place off of an aircraft carrier and includes air-to-air and surface-to-air combat. No word on 3D support. Read more: SymbianOne - The Wireless & Mobile... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • MobiTV J2ME Application adds Big Networks (09:55) - You'll read below that MobiTV is currently J2ME only. With more and more carriers announcing BREW in the US, MobiTV will ultimately be forced to create a BREW client especially if they want to leverage Verizon's 40mil+ subscriber base. But... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 27 July

  • Air2Web and Weather Channel Launch new weather App (11:18) - Now, the news that they are upgrading the app is interesting and should be noted by competitors (and fans). However, part of the press release had this to say about the industry as a whole: Downloadable applications, including those... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Blackberry J2ME Development (08:31) - This is an introduction to BlackBerry development using J2ME from Builder.com Australia. This would be good for anyone interested in development for the BlackBerry. For those in Australia, they talk about the local carriers that have the devices. Develop applications... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Cellular South launches QUALCOMM's BREW (08:23) - QUALCOMM Incorporated, pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, congratulates Cellular South, one of the largest privately held wireless providers in the United States, on its launch of downloadable wireless applications and services... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 25 July

  • Weekly Wrapup from The Feature (12:04) - TheFeature brings us a nice wrapup of a variety of things moving around the wireless world this week. It's earnings season, KTF is officially dropping BREW in favor of the Korean mandated WIPI, and other such fun things... TheFeature ::... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Exploring JSR-135, The Mobile Media APIs (11:52) - WebProNews brings us an overview of JSR-135, the modile media APIs. The Mobile Media APIs find their way onto devices through several different means. They are designed to be compatible with both the CDC and CLDC configurations, which makes them... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Sample Chapter from Getting Started with Symbian Development (11:50) - Covering the essentials of a Series 60 project, plus building, deploying and running an example application This chapter overviews the process of building, deploying and running an example Series 60 application with a Graphical User Interface (GUI). If you... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Webdate Launches BREW Client on Cellular One (11:45) - Webdate(TM), the world's fastest-growing community of men and women committed to fun and adventure in dating and in life, today announced it will launch its mobile webdating service on Western Wireless (Nasdaq: WWCA - News). Webdate Mobile(TM) provides an avenue... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 21 July

  • Korea to Abandon QUALCOMM's BREW? (23:07) - As KTF, Korea’s second largest mobile carrier, is likely to abandon Qualcomm's BREW which the company adopted for the first time in the world, the mobile internet platform is threatened to be withdrawn from the Korean market. According to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Bitboys Selects Hybrid Graphics Software Drivers (07:39) - Bitboys, a provider of graphics acceleration hardware solutions for wireless and embedded devices, today announced the selection of Hybrid Graphics’s OpenGL® ES and Mobile 3D Graphics API for J2ME™ software drivers as part of Bitboys’ graphics processor solutions. Bitboys products... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Sun's "Java Powered" Campaign is Pervasive (07:37) - Some commentary on Slashdot talks about how the classic Java cup logo will begin appearing on everything that may remotely have Java in it, including such things as microwaves and the more obvious cell phones and PDAs. Slashdot |... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • IBM Tools Upgrade (07:36) - IBM's WebSphere Studio Device Developer (WSDD) 5.7, announced yesterday at IBM Rational's user conference in Dallas, Texas, will feature tools and extensions for building applications on a range of mobile and embedded systems. WSDD 5.7, founded on the Eclipse... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 19 July

  • Semacode and ScoringSystems launch Joint Venture (10:24) - At the NACAA show, ScoringSystem demonstrated their latest innovation in a growing line of unique barcode applications. Using the photographic capability of the Nokia 6600 mobile phone, 2D DataMatrix barcodes containing URLs are captured and decoded, providing access to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Symbian Anti-virus software Ships (10:20) - With anti-virus software, you can never be too early. However, it really feels that way with this software considering that CABIR can't infect without the users agreement. Additionally, since CABIR does not appear in the wild, this AV software feels... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Windows CE Virus Discovered! (07:53) - BitDefender, based in Romania, stated that it has discovered a "proof of concept" virus for Microsoft's operating system for smart phones and other handhelds. The malicious code's author, who uses the pseudonym Ratter, is part of the 29A VX... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 16 July

  • iWireless World next Week, July 21-22, 2004 in Hollywood (17:06) - iHollywood Forum, Inc. today announced the final lineup of executives confirmed to speak at the fourth annual iWireless World(TM) (www.iWirelessWorld.com), an international conference and showcase focusing on how wireless technology is transforming entertainment and the enterprise. The summit will take... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • QUALCOMMs BREW Continues Strong Growth (07:32) - As of July 9th, there have now been over 140 million application downloads for QUALCOMM's BREW. Just a month ago, this number was 10 million less. Additionally, there are now over 31 million BREW enabled handsets shipping on 31 operators... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • iaSolution and Macromedia bring Flash Lite 1.1 to APAC Region (07:25) - iaSolution. Inc., a leading J2ME and embedded software technology company today announced a collaboration for the deployment of Flash Lite 1.1, the world's leading vector-based scalable image engine, to iaSolution's mobile device manufacturers customers. The deployment will enable key... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • 3G and QUALCOMM BREW Coming to Mexico (07:22) - Iusacell will integrate QUALCOMM'S BREW solution to its system, thus allowing subscribers to surf and download a variety of applications, such as e-mail, ring tones, screen savers, games, and photo transmission, through its mobile telephones. These devices will also... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Thursday 15 July

  • QUALCOMM Invests in Chinese Game Company (10:18) - Qualcomm Inc. and venture-capital firm The Carlyle Group have invested US$3 million in Enorbus Technology (China) Co. Ltd., a Beijing company that develops games and entertainment content for mobile phones using Qualcomm's Brew platform, Qualcomm said Monday. Brew is... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Sony Ericsson Reveals P910 UIQ Handset (07:50) - The new model supersedes the P900 by adding a flip-down Qwerty keyboard for emails, and an expanded internal memory of 64MB for corporate applications. Business users can also use the phone to access and view emails on a 262k... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 14 July

  • NSTL Chooses VIRTU for new Site for QUALCOMM BREW Testing (09:20) - VIRTU Interactive (VIRTU), a nationally recognized strategic marketing and Web design firm, has been engaged by National Software Testing Labs (NSTL), the world's leading mobile application and device certification test lab, for a new branding and customer education campaign.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 13 July

  • Visto Launches 3rd Generation Mobile Server (07:36) - As an important component of the Visto Mobile platform announced on June 15, Visto Mobile Enterprise Server 3.5 provides a number of important enhancements requested by mobile operators, their enterprise customers, and industry analysts, including: over-the-air (OTA) synchronization of... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • J2ME In the Car (07:33) - It's not a huge leap that J2ME could end up in car devices, just as various forms of Windows has. BMW was the first to use it in its iDrive in-car computer system, but owners won’t be able to tell... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Smartphones grow as PDAs level off (07:31) - This article isn't particularly new, but it does have some interesting things to say about the smartphone market and the PDA market. One could argue, of course, that they are the same market and PDAs have just gotten multiple... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 12 July

  • KDDI Expands it's use of QUALCOMM's BREW (21:42) - The carrier continues its use of BREW for downloadable applications, however instead of using Qualcomm's new BREW environment to develop an interface, KDDI instead has chosen to use Macromedia's Flash Lite. The three new handsets all have interfaces partially... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • QUALCOMM Sampling 225MHz MSM Chips: 6150 and 6550 (16:21) - The MSM6150 and MSM6550 are integrated, single-chip solutions that leverage the power of QUALCOMM's Launchpad(TM) suite of integrated multimedia technologies to maximize power efficiency in multimedia devices. As with all chipsets in the Enhanced Multimedia Platform, the MSM6150 and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 11 July

  • Forum Nokia PRO Launched (22:50) - Nokia has launched Forum Nokia PRO, a subscription-based service for advanced developer companies worldwide that delivers premium levels of technical, business development and marketing support. Targeted toward companies playing a leadership role in the evolution of mobile applications and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • SmartVideo Launches Video Solution on Symbian smartphones (22:49) - SmartVideo Technologies, Inc. today announced that it has certified a solution for distribution of live and on-demand video content to Symbian operating system cellular SmartPhones. SmartVideo's cellular solutions provide for live and on-demand streaming of video, eliminating the need... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 10 July

  • SonyEricsson Invests in Symbian, raises stake (21:08) - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications today announced strategic investments in Symbian Software Ltd., totalling approximately Ł 57.4 million. In addition to exercising its and Ericsson's pre-emption rights of Psion's holding in Symbian, Sony Ericsson is participating in Symbian's rights issue,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 8 July

  • Sharp to Ship Symbian Handsets (21:39) - Sharp held a press event o­n the 8th regarding the company's cellular phone business, at which Masafumi Matsumoto (President of Sharp Communication Systems) presented that the company plans o­n investing in cellular phones that feature the Symbian OS next... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • ACCESS Announces CDC HI JVM (21:36) - ACCESS (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 4813), a global provider of Internet access technologies, today announced the availability of JV-Lite 2 CE Edition, a new edition of its Java Virtual Machine solution that supports Sun Microsystems' CDC HI (Connected Device Configuration,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Handwriting Recognition in pipeline for Symbian UIQ (21:33) - Decuma's OnSpot handwriting recognition is in the works for Symbian UIQ as well as Windows Mobile and Palm. Geekzone, mobile forums... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • JavaOne not just about Enterprise (07:55) - Is JavaOne about to become JavaTwo -- with a split focus on enterprise and increased attention on consumer devices? Many longtime Java/J2EE enterprise developers attending this year's JavaOne would reluctantly say, "Yes!" And, many are confused by the turn... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Symbian uses new cash to fund staff growth (07:49) - Still related to yesterday's flurry of news that kept Nokia from full controlling position, but a fresh diversion from news directly about it, Symbian is using the extra proceeds to bring the workforce total up to around 1200 from... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • New Symbian Benchmarking from Futuremark (07:44) - Futuremark has released a benchmark program for Symbian based smartphones. The program is called SPMark04 and it provides a comprehensive application for measuring and comparing performance and power consumption of mobile phones. The benchmark has been developed in collaboration... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 7 July

  • Secure SMS from Silicon Village Mobile (14:06) - Silicon Village Mobile, a Birmingham UK based developer , has today launched the latest version of it's solution for sending secure SMS text messages. The new encryption application provides secure end-to-end data transmission for SMS messages on Nokia Series 60... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 6 July

  • MIDP API: Below the built in UI widgets (23:09) - MIDP provides a low-level API for fine-grained control over the application user interface. However, applications wanting to make use of these features also inherit a lot of responsibility and risk. Find out the benefits and pitfalls of using the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Avantgo available for Symbian UIQ Platform (23:01) - Avantgo is available for Symbian UIQ platforms via Handango now. It's been available for Series 60 devices since November of last year. Both versions are free downloads. I'm surprised it hasn't sprung up on more phones lately given the content... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Nokia to Only Hold 49% of Symbian (22:54) - Symbian, the mobile phone operating system jointly owned by several leading handset makers, will pass a significant milestone on Wednesday with the announcement that most of its owners have agreed to increase their stakes in the company, preventing Nokia... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Lauterbach supports Symbian OS with TRACE32 (22:51) - Lauterbach, the leading manufacturer of microprocessor development tools, now includes support for the Symbian OS real-time operating system (RTOS) from Symbian Ltd in its TRACE32 tool. All versions of the Symbian OS are supported including the new kernel architecture... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • SOA from Nokia (22:48) - The biggest announcement from JavaOne, according to Michael Yuan, was that Nokia is building a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework on smart mobile phones that could quickly change how an average technology user sees Web services. Web Services Journal... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Donald Trump's Real Estate Tycoon for Mobile coming soon (22:44) - Donald Trump is coming to wireless. Big deal. VERY big deal. The oft-quoted entrepreneur and real estate developer is ready to conquer mobile, thanks in part to Airborne Entertainment and Activision Value Publishing, Inc. The multi-platform software company, a... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Is it IPO time for JAMDAT? (22:28) - Jamdat Mobile is ready to go public. The wireless game applications developer has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, marking the first step to an initial public offering. The company has yet to set... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Motorla E398: Stereo Sound and more (22:25) - he E398, first introduced in Miami at the M3 Music Summit in March, is 'a case where 3D surround sound meets MP3', says Motorola. The 110g phone can handle up to 260 to 560 minutes of talktime, and 160... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Monkey Physics Game Engine for J2ME (22:23) - Monkey Physics's gaming engine allows developers to build games in J2ME, a form of Java used on mobile phones, PDAs, pagers and set-top boxes. Monkey Physics, founded last year, was awarded a federal Government COMET commercialisation grant earlier this year,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Nokia and others working on new Mobile Java Standard (09:42) - Nokia expects work to be wrapped up early next year on a new Java standard that should make it easier to manage business and consumer applications on mobile phones and other wireless devices, Nokia’s chief technology officer said. For example,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • InfoSpace to Purchase Atlas Mobile (09:33) - It was only December of last year when start-up tech company Atlas Mobile launched three games on Verizon. The company's mobile phone games are skilled-based -- such as card games, puzzles, and so on -- involving multiplayer formats. With the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 1 July

  • Verizon Ships LG VX7000 Video Phone (22:28) - This new phone from Verizon has a VGA swivel camera, a 176x220 primary screen with 18bit color, a 96x96 secondary screen with 12bit color, and support for picture and video messaging. In addition, the handset supports BREW 2.1 and has... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Handango Brings InHand Client to J2ME Phones (11:53) - Today at JavaOne, Handango, the leading provider of mobile downloads, announced the availability of Handango InHand for Java-enabled mobile phones. Handango InHand is an intelligent, device-resident download client. Using Handango InHand, operators and OEMs can increase download revenues by... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Motorola A630 Has QWERTY (09:55) - The A630 is the size of a typical mobile phone, but unlike most phones its hinge is on the side so that it opens up like a pager. Apparently recognizing the difficulty of using a T9 keypad for intensive... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Symbian Signed Program Not All That? (07:55) - When mobile operating system consortium Symbian Ltd. launched Symbian Signed, a program under which developers submit applications to a third-party tester to validate they are free of malicious behavior and content, the program immediately was criticized by technology analyst Gartner... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments