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August 2004

Tuesday 31 August

  • Managing MIDlet Life-Cycle with a Finite State Machine (23:31) - Although this may be obvious to some, this article introduces the reader to finite state machines as they apply to MIDlets. For those who slept during CS101, this will be a good review. ;) A MIDlet class may manage its... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • CTIA Announces Developer Offerings for show at end of October (23:27) - CTIA- The Wireless Association(TM) announced the developer offerings for CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2004, the breeding ground for cutting-edge wireless software and applications. Leading wireless developers will be on hand to meet with top manufactures and service providers... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • New Symbian Antivirus Software from FB-4, Inc. (23:24) - FB-4 Inc., an innovator in mobile computing devices software, announces today the availability of a new suite of enterprise-grade software and services for Symbian OS smartphones. The security suite works with Samsung, Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, BenQ, and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Opera to Develop Browser for Windows Mobile (23:22) - A year and a half after it vowed never to produce a browser that worked with Microsoft's operating system for mobile devices, browser maker Opera Software on Monday said it would do just that, citing unusually high demand for the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • 9 Squared Acquired by British firm Monstermob (23:17) - This lands squarely in the "yet another mobile acquisition." 9 Squared, Inc., a leading mobile content provider, today announced the agreement for acquisition by British company Monstermob Group, the provider of entertainment content for mobile phones, effective immediately. Monstermob paid... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Southern LINC Offers Motorola i860 Video Phone (23:09) - Southern LINC(R), the wireless communications service from Southern Company (NYSE: SO), today announced they will begin offering the Motorola i860 video and camera phone. The Motorola i860 adds a visual component to communications with LINC View, a new feature... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Inetcam Provides Streaming Video for BREW and J2ME (23:06) - Inetcam, Inc., a leading developer of wireless and IP video monitoring and security solutions, today announced the availability of its innovative iMViewer(TM) for J2ME-enabled mobile handsets. iMViewer(TM) empowers users of J2ME and BREW enabled handsets to remotely monitor their... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 29 August

  • Bush vs Kerry Boxing from Sorrent (13:14) - Can't wait for November to punch your vote? Sorrent, a leading creator and global publisher of mobile entertainment, today announced the launch of Bush vs. Kerry Boxing, the first and only politically charged game for mobile phones. Bush vs.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • BMX Extreme game available for BREW and J2ME (13:00) - BMX Extreme is based on the popular PRO BMX Stunt Teams founded by Professional BMX rider and Hollywood stuntman, Dan Hubbard in 1986. The game features air-borne acrobatics as stunts performed by the player, to simulate extreme sports action. Certainly,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Symbian Snake Oil for sale in Manila (12:57) - Despite this Manila phone shops are offering to clean "infected" mobile phone handsets for between 500 up to 1,000 ($8.90 to $19.60) pesos a pop, Jamz Yaneza, a senior antivirus consultant of Trend Micro, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Symbian Smartphone Expo announces Sponsors (12:55) - Symbian Ltd., the market leader in open operating systems for smartphones, today announces the full roster of sponsors for Symbian Expo - The Smartphone Show, its annual tradeshow dedicated to smartphones. Top sponsors of the show are Vodafone, UIQ Technology... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 26 August

  • T-Mobile USA Provides Nokia 6800 with 4 IM Services (22:58) - OZ, the leading enabler of standards-based mobile Instant Messaging and Presence Services today announced an industry first; with a pre-loaded IM Client on the Nokia 6800 messaging phone, T-Mobile USA subscribers are now able to access the four major... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Nokia and Vodafone form Mobile Service Architecture Initiative (22:53) - In a move that is intended to deliver benefits for the mobile industry and for mobile customers, Nokia and Vodafone today announce the formation of a mobile service architecture initiative. The aim of the initiative is to simplify mobile Java... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Smartphones See Large Growth in 12-18 months (22:50) - A report by In-Stat/MDR gives good news for those developers banking on smartphone growth, especially by Symbian. They also claim Windows will be #2 for smartphones. Digital Media Europe: News - Smart-phones shipments to grow 44% over next five years... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Motorola, DoCoMo, Symbian Handset sports Wifi (22:46) - Motorola Inc.'s new smart phones for NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s Foma service will be powered by Symbian Ltd.'s operating system, ComputerWire has learned. The devices, which are set to reach the market next spring, are also the first announced to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 25 August

  • The MiniApp (23:29) - Joshua Marinacci write about the notion of "MiniApps" -- essentially small apps that are always running that really don't know the difference between the web and the desktop. In other words, they have fast UIs that don't need to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Silk: New Content Delivery for smartphones (23:10) - This reads like a bunch of common words capitalized. In any case, it's Clear as Silk that Smart Phones will have a Orange Content Delivery System. Uhm... just read the article over at SymbianOne for the real details: SymbianOne... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Smartphone Summit 2004 at CTIA 2004 in San Francisco (23:07) - Smartphone Summit 2004 will be held Monday, Oct. 25, coinciding with CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment 2004 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. The Summit aims to gather the top smartphone-based enterprise solutions covering all smartphone OS... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • NetBeans 4.0 Beta available (23:04) - This week, Sun released the NetBeans IDE 4.0 Beta, which sports a number of key upgrades, including: support for Tiger (J2SE 5.0), a rewritten Ant-based project system, and Java refactoring. The initial Early Access release of the Performance Profiler... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Opera to Launch Full BREW Browser on KDDI in Japan (07:35) - Opera Software today announced it will deliver Opera's port for the BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) application development platform with KDDI, Japan's second largest mobile operator. KDDI has enjoyed tremendous success in the mobile services market, and has... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 24 August

  • Sprint Launches Sprint Wireless Video (aka TV) (21:58) - The streaming video and audio offering is provided on a multimedia handset from Samsung Latest News about Samsung, enabling users to watch news clips, movie previews and other popular content. Samsung's MM-A700 can deliver video at 15 frames per... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • MIDP 2.0 Games API Primer (21:53) - This is an exerpt from the Apress book J2ME Games with MIDP 2 that gives a good overview of the Game API. Using the MIDP 2.0 Game API... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Nokia and Pointsec Secure your Symbian OS data (21:45) - Nokia and Poitsec today announced that through a collaborative effort they have developed software for protecting sensitive files on Nokia Series 60 and 80 devices. Operating within the familiar Symbian OS, the software technology will allow the encryption of... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Artificial Life gives birth to Virtual Girlfriend (21:39) - The Virtual Girlfriend is a very innovative mobile game that is based on intelligent animated 3-D characters (avatars) that live in a virtual mobile world. The virtual girls can be contacted and seen using a 3G phone at any... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Scanbuy's Optical Intelligence (21:33) - This resulted in the creation of Optical Intelligence, a utility which provides developers with the ability to include barcode reading functionality within their applications. The user of the application points their phone's camera at the barcode and Optical Intelligence... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments
  • No more API Docs on Javalobby (21:27) - For those that liked to read their J2ME APIs at JavaLobboy, Sun has nixed this ability. Javalobby, an online community of Java developers, has removed from its new JDocs documentation Web site several vital Java APIs at the request of... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments
  • ABC on Motorola's i830 for Nextel (21:19) - Why does no one seem to think J2ME can do no more than just games? Nextel, especially, has many vertical applications on J2ME -- that's why they were one of the first with J2ME phones. Although the i830 is built... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Mobile SVG? (21:15) - Should you use SVG Tiny for your content and applications? This article gives up-to-date information on what uses SVG Tiny (such as the Sony Ericsson K700) and what will use it. XML.com: Mobile SVG... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 19 August

  • Digital Chocolate enters BREW (08:30) - Digital Chocolate has entered the BREW arena with the announcement of two games. One, Baseball Heroes of the MLBPAA, is a baseball game featuring players from the 70's and 80's. It's supposed to be one of the most detailed baseball... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 18 August

  • Forum Nokia on Optimizing the User Experience (08:52) - Frequently, mobile developers face a challenge in optimizing their applications to several different devices. Nokia Develop/Optimize is a practical programming paradigm that describes how to leverage the strength of Nokia's developer platform approach while acknowledging and addressing device variations.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Mobile Gaming Continues to Bring Investment and financial activity (08:28) - This article, from MSNBC, talks about mobile gaming and how it relates to investment and venture capital (you know, because mobile gaming is all popular now so the big guns want to invest, naturally). MSNBC - Cell phone gaming gathers... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Simultaneous Mobile and Console game releases becoming common (08:20) - Release a game across multiple platforms at the same time has always been a challenge. Even just trying to release a Windows and a Mac version of a game at the same time is often not feasible. Here we... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 16 August

  • Archos' new Gmini400 Supports Mophun (14:06) - Archos has a new media player availabled called the Gmini400. Unlike the AV400 series, this does not record video. But it can playback video and audio as well as viewing pictures. However, and of greater interest to this group,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Vindigo Studios Acquired by Japanese Firm (11:24) - Vinidig Studios, developers of many applications for QUALCOMM's BREW has been acquired by FOR-SIDE.COM Co., Ltd in an all cash deal of $36.5 million. Vindigo also does Java, WAP, Palm, and PocketPC applications. Vindigo will continue to be managed by... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Mobile Software Platform Business Models (08:06) - This article is interesting in that it gives a run down of the various business models in use within mobile right now. This isn't in a specific level, but rather in broad, sweeping terms with speculation. The point of... | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • SimWorks Anti-Virus now removes Mosquitos game (07:59) - In an interesting move that could force the Mosquitos game creators, mojom, to make a statement SimWorks anti-virus now detects Mosquitos as a trojan and removes it from the system. It also detects CABIR. There's no note to whether they... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • PhotoTwister: Twist up your Series 60 Photos (07:53) - In a twist on the photo editing market, we have a photo application for Series 60 devices that allows you to make your friends look funny before you post them on the 'net for billions to see. PhotoTwister will... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 13 August

  • Scratch: A J2ME Signature Capture Utility (07:45) - Written as a standalone application, but also as a module for integration into other applications, this opensource tool allows for the capture of signatures -- or any other handwritten data -- on any touchscreen-enabled J2ME device. Scratch is an open... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
  • Vipera to offer MMS Alternative (07:33) - Vipera announces the immediate global availability of its mobile service for smart phones and PDAs. Vipera allows camera enabled mobile phones to transmit picture messages to other phones as well as to any Internet e-mail account, at a fraction... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Aplix and Motorola bring On-Handset J2ME Debugging (07:30) - This has been one of the bigger features missing from mobile development from J2ME and even BREW. J2ME has had some advancement in this area for a few months now, and BREW will catch up as on-handset debugging was announcement... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • New Report suggests Linux is a threat (07:25) - At least, on mobile phones. And this time, Linux is threatening Symbian -- presumably at the expense of Windows Mobile, as well. The report suggests that full-featured OSes will ship in 290 million handsets, or 42.5 percent of the total... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Series 60 Trojan Horse actually a feature? (07:22) - A couple of days ago, a modified version of a Series 60 game called Mosquito began to circulate that contained a Trojan Horse. This is how Wireless Week puts it: The only way for a Symbian smartphone to become infected... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 12 August

  • President of PalmSource talks about BREW (07:49) - In an interview with DigiTimes the president of PalmSource, David Nagel, talks about BREW: It’s a similar story for BREW. We have a good relationship with Qualcomm in San Diego, and we have previously announced support for the delivery of... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 11 August

  • Singletons in QUALCOMM's BREW (11:10) - The typical patterns for implementing a singleton require either a global variable or a class member variable. Unfortunately, neither of these constructs is available in BREW when compiling for Over-the-Air (OTA) provisioning. This has driven many developers to experiment... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • BREW vs J2ME Battle Rages in China (09:45) - More on the battle between BREW and J2ME. This article contains some good information, although the numbers of shipping units at the bottom seem to be off compared to other articles. The key thing, though, is that as long as... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 10 August

  • Bitboys Mobile GPUs Offer Advanced 3D Features (08:13) - The G32, G34 and G40 [...] are all OpenGL ES 1.1-compatible designs pitched at mainstream devices, gaming and multimedia handsets, respectively. They also support Direct3D Mobile and M3G for J2ME. The G34 provides a full programmable floating-point geometry engine capable... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Symbian Phones on DoCoMo act as Wallets (08:08) - The Felica system, introduced on Saturday, enables people to make bank withdrawals and credit card purchases or check in for some airlines' flights, among other activities. Information is transmitted from the cell phone over NTT DoCoMo's own network or... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 9 August

  • Testing J2ME Applications (10:00) - Forum Nokia brings us this useful article on testing J2ME applications. It applies not only to Nokia platforms but to any J2ME platform. Testing is an important part of application development. This document lists fundamental issues that must be taken... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Bridgewater Systems Prepaid Solution now supports QUALCOMM's BREW (09:51) - Bridgewater is used by service providers, such as Cricket. The new upgrade, which is compatible with Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) from Qualcomm, enables service providers to offer prepaid services including games, wallpaper, ringtones and other downloads to their... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Trojan Symbian Game sends Premium SMS (09:47) - It's not a virus, but it can cause a significant amount of financial damage to the owner before they realize what's going on (which likely requires seeing a bill). A cracked version of popular Mosquitos game for Symbian based smartphones... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Windows Mobile handset with Java receives China Mobile certificate (09:43) - iaSolution Inc. has recently successfully collaborated with HTC (High Tech Computer Corp.) to introduce two styles of high-level mobile Java handsets. With the approval by the China Mobile, they became the world's first MS Windows Mobile handset to pass... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • QUALCOMM and others invest in Sichuan Great Wall Software (09:24) - QUALCOMM Inc., IDG Technology Venture Investment, and TOM Online invest $3.5 million in Sichuan Great Wall Software Group. Based in Chengdu, Sichuan province, Great Wall is a leading software developer and application provider for wireless phones, with experience in developing... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Bruce Lee Enters Mobile Gaming (09:12) - Indiagames Ltd., a leading Mobile entertainment developer, has entered into an agreement with Universal Studios Consumer Products Group to bring wireless content honoring the legacy of Bruce Lee to mobile phones. The wireless content for mobile phones will include... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Mobile Gaming Drawing Investment (09:06) - This article from MSNBC talks about the growing trend that we've noted here: mobile companies are getting lots of investment and starting to take part in public offerings. Mobile gaming is catching fire, thanks to the explosion of color... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Webdate Mobile, J2ME Dating (08:56) - The new Java-based (J2ME) version is available for download at WebdateMobile.com and Handango.com, the leading provider of mobile downloads. Wireless data subscribers with AT&T Wireless, Cingular or T-Mobile service that own select Nokia, Samsung or Sendo phones can download... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 6 August

  • Sony Ericsson Game Contest (08:55) - This article, from SymbianOne, talks about the Sony Ericsson Game challenge and why it focusses exclusively on their MIDP 2.0 phones and not Symbian phones. SymbianOne - The Wireless & Mobile Developer Portal for Symbian OS, series 60, and UIQ... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 5 August

  • Symbian shipments nearly double in First Half 2004 (08:45) - Symbian Ltd. said its operating results for the first half of 2004 show global shipments of Symbian OS-based phones nearly doubled to 5 million, as compared to the first half of 2003 when 2.7 million units were shipped. Six... | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Lifeblogger: Nokia LifeBlog posting App (08:41) - LifeBlogger gives the ability to post text, pictures, and video to your blog from your Nokia LifeBlog application. LifeBlogger... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • IN-FUSIO, developer of Mobile Games, receives $27 Million Funding (08:17) - In the continuing trend of mobile companies receiving investment or being acquired, we have yet another round of investment here. IN-FUSIO, the leading global game publisher and game services provider for mobile phones, today announced that it has raised $27... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Motorola MPx 220 has Bluetooth, Megapixel Camera, and MIDP 2.0 (08:13) - Now Motorola has released its second generation Windows Mobile SmartPhone MPx 220. It will be based on the Windows Mobile 2003 platform with full support for .Net Compact Framework 1.0 SP2. Addressing the shortcomings of the first generation MPx... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Aplix Acquires iaSolution (08:08) - Taiwan-based iaSolution, a developer of J2ME (Java 2 platform, micro edition) and Java embedded solutions, announced today it would be acquired by Japan-based Aplix, a provider of Java technology for mobile phones. Aplix buys Taiwan-based iaSolution... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Symbians lead increases against Microsoft (07:55) - Software supplied by Symbian controlled 41per cent of the personal organisers and smart phones shipped worldwide in the second quarter, compared with 37 per cent in the same quarter a year ago, according to research firm canalys.com. A smart... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Inter-Application Communication with QUALCOMM's BREW (07:43) - This article, from developer.com, talks about inter-application communication with BREW. * How can two or more processes exchange information in BREW? * When should you use IAC? What are the design considerations? * How does one create and use services... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 4 August

  • iMViewer: Live Streaming Video for QUALCOMM's BREW (08:49) - Built for the BREW solution, the application provides mobile users with a high quality secure connection to their business or home while they are away. Through the use of Inetcam's patent pending technology, iMViewer ensures faster response times to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • WorldMate Comes to J2ME (08:36) - Following the exceptional success of WorldMate(TM) on other platforms MobiMate(R) announces that their best selling mobile travel application is now available on J2ME phones. The service, now available on pervasive Java phones, is comparable with the WorldMate versions available... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • New Embedded Development Conference in San Jose, CA (08:34) - The first annual Embedded Software Development Conference, to be held mid-August in San Jose, will focus on high-level applications development for embedded platforms such as J2ME, Windows CE, Palm OS and Embedded Linux. It's bound to include QUALCOMM's BREW,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 2 August

  • Decuma Handwriting recognition comes to UIQ (08:23) - Decuma's OnSpot handwriting recognition solution has already seen success in implementations on Palm and Windows Mobile, now the solution is coming to UIQ. SymbianOne - The Wireless & Mobile Developer Portal for Symbian OS, series 60, and UIQ device... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Java hardware peformance continues up (08:22) - Hardware-based solutions for Java execution in consumer embedded applications could be a thing of the past, according to MIPS Technologies, Inc. . Along with Esmertec,(TM) a leading provider of Java(TM) solutions for embedded devices, the companies announced today that... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • IBM's Worksplace Client Technology Micro-edition (08:07) - In order to operate in this space, IBM has released two related technologies, the IBM Workplace Client Technology (WCT) and Workplace Client Technology Micro-edition (WCTME). WCT is based on the J2SE and is targeted at the desktop or laptop... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • A curious article on MS, Sun, and J2ME (07:53) - This is quite a curious article about Microsoft, Sun, J2ME, and something called Decaf. Not much else can be said... worth a read. ;) msmobiles.com - msmobiles.com revelations: the truth about Sun Corporation revealed... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments