Thursday 30 September
- Symbian News: 30 Sep, 2004 (10:00) - The Symbian Expo is coming up next week on Oct 5th&6th in London. This has caused a lot of new press releases to go out. Sorting through these is amazingly exciting, as I can tell you from first hand experience.... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 27 September
- Symbian News: 27 Sep, 2004 (20:00) - doHeadlines RSS Reader for Symbian UIQ is released, supporting RSS 0.9, 1.0, and 2.0. Symbian emphasizes collaboration for its platform developement. Symbian to face new challenges from Windows Mobile, according to ABI Research. SmartPhonemate Bluetooth keyboard supports Symbian OS, as... | 0 Trackbacks
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- PalmSource to Introduce OS Design for Smart Phones (19:00) - PalmSource, the maker of the Palm operating system for hand-held devices, plans to announce tomorrow its first operating system designed specifically for smart phones - mobile phones that can run programs more typically found on desktop computers. The operating system... | 0 Trackbacks
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Saturday 25 September
- OpenGL ES Coding Challenge (16:30) - OpenGL ES is the 3D graphics standard for mobile phones, handhelds, gamepads and embedded devices. The mobile market is the largest and fastest growing area of consumer technology and the OpenGL ES 1.1 Coding Challenge is intended to kick... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Symbian News: 24 Sep, 2004 (15:00) - Nokia introduces a new Series 60 phone in the UK : the Nokia 6670. It sports a megapixel camera, two flavors for various world GSM coverage, a 16-bit color screen, and compatibility with Nokia's new bluetooth GPS module. (Yes, all... | 0 Trackbacks
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- J2ME News: 24 Sep, 2004 (13:00) - First, some stuff we missed from yesterday. Here we have Esmertec being selected to do Java software for connected home terminals by France Telecom. This article shows that CHASMA is launched Poker Superstart Invitational Tournament on both J2ME and BREW.... | 0 Trackbacks
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- BREW News: 24 Sep, 2004 (12:30) - QUALCOMM is licensing Microsoft's Windows Media technologies to use in its chipsets and BREW solutions. Read moer about it from the press release here or here. It shouldn't be long before one of the carriers that uses BREW launches a... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Porting MIDP 2.0 to 1.0 with J2ME Polish Article (11:45) - Mobile Game Developer brings us this article on backporting your shiny new MIDP 2.0 game (or application) to MIDP 1.0, using J2ME Polish. It gets right to the point, to. Mobile Game Developer - Porting MIDP 2.0 Games to MIDP... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 23 September
- BREW News: 22 Sep, 2004 (04:00) - Cenuco, Inc. has a remote video monitoring application called Mobile Monitor which can be used to get a live video feed from their home, office, or area of interest onto their BREW-enabled mobile phone. The technology is patent-pending and the... | 0 Trackbacks
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- J2ME News: 22 Sep, 2004 (03:00) - Also light on the J2ME front for today. We have yet another article about the growth of J2ME development here. This item we missed a couple of days ago. There is no available a ZCode interpretter for J2ME handsets. This... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Symbian News: 22 Sep, 2004 (02:00) - Not much on the Symbian front today. We have an entry from SymbianOne tht they will be using Cognima at the Symbian Expo to do real time photo blogging. That could make for some interesting content during the show (Oct... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 22 September
- JSR 211 (CHAPI) Allows J2ME Apps to be Content Handlers (04:00) - This article by DevX talks about JSR 211. In the J2ME world, it is innovative in that it allows applications to register themselves as being content handlers for specific MIME types. In other words, an application could register itself as... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Symbian News: 21 Sep, 2004 (03:00) - SymbianOne continues their line of Symbian Expo previews with an article on upcoming Series 60 items that may be seen at the expo. The company behind Quickoffice, Mobility Electronics, Inc., has been acquired by Mobile Digital Media (MDM).... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Series 60 Second Edition SDK from Forum Nokia (02:00) - Nokia has released two different versions of this SDK, a version supporting Microsoft Visual Studio or Borland BuilderX and one supporting Metrowerks. They can both be found here. The Series 60 SDK for Symbian OS enables application development for the... | 0 Trackbacks
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- NVIDIA Enters Mobile Market with GoForce 4500 (01:00) - The unique features of the GoForce 3D 4500 WMP include: -- Specifically designed for handsets, the GoForce 3D 4500 features geometry processing for arcade-quality 3D acceleration and gaming -- Programmable shaders, bilinear and trilinear texture filtering, texture compression, support for... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 21 September
- All caught up (14:15) - As far as news items go, we seem to be reasonably caught up with our backlog now. Our scouring the web for good development articles will continue, of course. I would like to take this opportunity to encourage readers to... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Bay Area Mobility Forum Presentation on BREW (13:00) - The Bay Area Mobility Forum is having a presentation on BREW by Ray Rischpater. It will be held this Saturday, September 25th, 2004, at the Dimension 7 Studios in San Francisco, CA. More information can be found here or here.... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Wireless Connectivity Americas (12:15) - A tradeshow to be held November 9-10, 2004, in the Santa Clara Convention center in Santa Clara, CA. Its focus is wireless connectivity including everything from Bluetooth to WiFi to WiMax. It does not appear to include much about cellular... | 0 Trackbacks
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- BREW News: 20 Sep, 2004 (11:30) - BusinessWeek talks about mobile gaming and mentions BREW right along with J2ME, but really only talks about it in the sense of gaming. Leap Wireless International launches Cricket Clicks BREW service on its Cricket Wireless network in the US. QUALCOMM... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Symbian News: 20 Sep, 2004 (10:45) - Excitor's MobileCare is a classic example of a vertical mobile application developed using the hardware that was required. Oh, it is a Symbian app on a Nokia 9200. This eWeek article talks about the ever advancing power of mobile devices... | 0 Trackbacks
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- J2ME News: 20 Sep, 2004 (10:00) - An item we missed a while ago is still quite interesting. Samsung will be shipping a handset with a 1.5GB microdrive, in addition to a large OLED screen and a megapixel camera. More on the growing popularity of J2ME... it... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 20 September
- Symbian News: 17 Sep, 2004 (23:00) - Symbian Expo preview, focussing on Sony Ericsson. ABC News highlights from last weeks DEMOMOBILE. Symbian has captured 88% of the "advanced Mobile OS" market. Who else is in that market? Certainly not our favorite platforms, J2ME and BREW.... | 0 Trackbacks
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- J2ME News: 17 Sep, 2004 (22:15) - Nextel offers over the air J2ME downloads. Handmark, the leading developer and publisher of software for smart mobile devices, today announced it has been named a DEMOgod(TM) -- the highest honor given by the highly respected DEMOmobile wireless and mobile... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Symbian News: 16 Sep, 2004 (21:30) - BlackBerry threatens Symbian handsets... and all smartphone handsets. Mobiluck, a bluetooth messaging application, threatens SMS usage and gains lots of users (over 100,000). Get a bartender for your pocket. Well, it won't mix the drinks for you but you'll be... | 0 Trackbacks
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- O'Reilly Publishes Introductory Series 60 Development Article (20:45) - Using the N-Gage as a base device, a new article about Series 60 development comes from O'Reilly. Symbian is a derivative of the Psion operating system, EPOC. It is a 32-bit multitasking OS, mostly written in C++. Symbian must cope... | 0 Trackbacks
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- J2ME News: 16 Sep, 2004 (20:00) - PocketCinema.com launches next generation video and mobile entertainment applications for mobile phones, including MMS content.... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Symbian News: 15 Sep, 2004 (19:15) - SymbianWare makes heavy use of Symbian Signed program by getting 12 of their most popular applications certified. Symbian Expo preview about UIQ and it's showing at the (still) upcoming Symbian Expo (coming Oct 5th and 6th in London). Information about... | 0 Trackbacks
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- J2ME News: 15 Sep, 2004 (18:30) - Access SIM cards and use simple crypto with JSR 177, the Security and Trust API. Siemens SF65 supports MIDP 2.0, as well as having a megapixel camera, swivel screen, and lots of messaging. Developer use of J2ME on the rise,... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Updates continue... (05:00) - The updates will continue to roll in. The focus here is on development information. However, news and competition is also very important to that, but not as much "space" will be given to it in the future. Just quick lines,... | 0 Trackbacks
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- J2ME News: 14 Sep, 2004 (03:30) - The number of developers using J2ME to create applications on wireless platforms has reached new heights, according to Evans Data in its '2004 Wireless Development Survey.' Sun turbocharges with ARM Jazelle... | 0 Trackbacks
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- BREW News: 13 Sep, 2004 (03:00) - M-Pedia Tees Up GOLF MAGAZINE(R) ScoreBuddy(TM) for BREW(R)-Enabled Wireless Devices... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Nokia Fashion Phones (02:45) - Supposedly inspired by the lavish 1920’s, the three new phones – the 7280, 7270 and 7260, are a blend of art deco styling with a edgy, modern day twist. What this translates to in real-terms is plenty of shiny lacquer... | 0 Trackbacks
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- DEMOMOBILE 2004 Opening (02:30) - DEMOmobile 2004 opened today (Sept 9 2004) to an enthusiastic audience of influential analysts, media, venture capitalists, and business executives, all of whom rely on the conference for exclusive insights into the future of mobile technology.... | 0 Trackbacks
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- KTF Use of Java to help push J2ME Apps (02:30) - Sun Microsystems Inc. expects that local mobile-phone operator KT Freetel's decision to use Sun's Java technology for mobile data services will speed the development of the non-voice mobile-phone applications that are increasingly becoming a focus of competition.... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Symbian News: 8 Sep, 2004 (02:00) - Psion Plc. is planning to use part of its 126.4 million pound ($226.2 million) gain from the sale of its holding in Symbian to finance a buying spree in the areas of mobile hardware, middleware, services and wireless. The company... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Symbian News: 7 Sep, 2004 (01:30) - Nokia to Enable BlackBerry Connect Solution on Series 80 Mobile Device Intuwave and Mercury have combined their respective skill in connectivity and testing to deliver what could be the most comprehensive Symbian OS testing solution to date. Psion has turned... | 0 Trackbacks
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- BREW News: 7 Sep, 2004 (01:00) - KTF said Tuesday that it is licensing Java technology for downloading software onto cell phones, a deal prompted by a South Korean government policy.... | 0 Trackbacks
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- QUALCOMM Challenge for Developers (00:30) - "Who Got Game?" gives developers working with QUALCOMM's BREW solution a chance to create 3D games, screensavers, user interfaces (UIs) or other demo applications for QUALCOMM's Q3Dimension 3D gaming engine. Seamlessly integrated into QUALCOMM's Multimedia, Enhanced Multimedia and Convergence... | 0 Trackbacks
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- J2ME News: 8 Sep, 2004 (00:00) - The latest communicator from Nokia sheds an internal camera and Wi-Fi, yet still offers a multitude of features for business users: meet the 9500's smaller sibling - the 9300. Bristol, UK. (a company I know for windows to unix porting... | 0 Trackbacks
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Sunday 19 September
- J2ME News: 7 Sep, 2004 (23:30) - Canon provides populuar office printer, the Canon iR C3220 with MEAP, which uses J2ME for customization. Sun Microsystems and ARM , today announced a long-term collaboration to integrate and distribute optimized Java(TM) solutions for mobile devices. Sun Microsystems, Inc. today... | 0 Trackbacks
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- P900 Quick Review (23:15) - You'll find a quick review of the P900 over at Palm Blast!... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Symbian News: 2 Sep, 2004 (23:00) - Maxinote allows for a new entry method on Symbian handsets via an on-screen keypad. Zi now provides for download eZiTap, a downloadable version of its award winning predictive text software.... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Symbian News: 1 Sep, 2004 (22:30) - FB-4 provides entireprise grade virus protected and security for Symbian OS devices. You can now rapidly turn a DVD into Symbian UIQ compatible video.... | 0 Trackbacks
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- J2ME News: 1 Sep, 2004 (22:00) - JSR 248 and 249 help bring stability to J2ME as a write once, run anywhere platform. Realtime streaming video for J2ME devices via iNetcams iMViewer.... | 0 Trackbacks
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- BREW News: 1 Sep, 2004 (21:30) - We have a mention here of Opera for BREW. Cellular One to offer Kyocera Aktiv, a BREW handset Visto to compete with Blackberry using many platforms, including BREW.... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Catching Up (21:15) - Over the next day or two, we'll be catching up. In doing so, we'll be using a new format to post most news items. It will be shorter and hopefully easier to read, in addition to being easier to maintain... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 3 September
- Networking in J2ME (11:35) - DevX brings us a new article on "mastering networking in J2ME." From the earliest days of J2ME, network connectivity has been a central focus of the design. So much so that a generic architecture, referred to as the Generic Connection... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Fixed Point Optimization in J2ME (11:33) - DevX has a new J2ME article on fixed point math. Once upon a time, game programmers had to write code in assembler and make many other optimizations to deliver games that ran well even with the slow processors and small... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Spotty Site Updates (11:30) - Both MDN editors will be on the road for a week and a half. Please bear with us while we try to send in updates from the road over our mobile phones. Coverage is surprising outside of the populated areas,... | 0 Trackbacks
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