September 2005

Friday 30 September

  • Rapid Enterprise Mobile Application Development (08:30) - I got a tip today from somebody about this DSM (Domain Specific Modelling) application. Apparently, it lets you draw out applications that can then become fully functional. This sounds like RAD tools from the late 80s or earl 90s. But... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Thursday 29 September

  • Get Trained on Smartphone Development (13:09) - The Developer Training will provide comprehensive hands-on training sessions for Symbian OS and associated technologies. Delegates will learn how to use Symbian OS products, and understand the necessary conventions, terms and expressions with which to build world-class software for the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Python and Linux: Hacking (11:28) - A mobile phone is a cool gadget to play with, especially when [the author] can run [the authors] favourite programming language (no prize for guessing what it is!) on it! That was the logic which made [the author] purchase a... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Wednesday 28 September

  • NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.0 Beta Available (21:17) - NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.0 adds several key new features to an already powerful and easy-to-use mobile Java development tool, including: Improved end-to-end support for building web services-based mobile applications for any MIDP device, new custom components in the Visual Mobile... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Encryption in MIDP for Data Security (09:09) - Data security is a very important topic in nearly every market sector. This article from Jonathan Knudsen over at Sun discusses this and a solution for your MIDP applications. Computer applications use ciphers to protect sensitive information from theft. Encrypted... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 27 September

  • First BREW 3.1 Handset Launched (10:49) - Verizon has launched the LG VX9800, a sideways opening phone with a QWERTY keyboard and a QVGA screen. It also has BREW 3.1 on it. The screen size in BREW is 320x239 with lots of RAM and storage to go... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
  • Palm's Dead: Port to Series 60 (10:00) - Well, that's not what Nokia is saying. However, their document about issues of porting from the Palm OS to Series 60 isn't far from it. With Treo's coming with Windows Mobile on it, you have to have somewhere to put... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • QUALCOMM BREW Numbers for September 2005 (09:30) - Back in June, the numbers looked like this: The June published numbers show over $350 million in developer/publisher earnings on applications published in 24 countries from 34 manufacturers on 45 operators. The number of operators has increased by 4 and... | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments
  • Flash AI For Your Phone (08:44) - This sort of application shows just some of the possibilities of using a higher level development environment for these handsets. You don't have to develop at the lowest level to get something more than a bit of static information. The... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 26 September

  • J2ME is not MIDP (09:00) - J2MEDeveloper.com has a nice article on the common confusion between J2ME and MIDP and why the terms are not interchangable. Here's an excerpt: Facts: (J2ME != MIDP) -and- (MIDP belongs to J2ME) Let me explain what I mean and where... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Moderati Announces Ad Compaign for Modtones.com (08:00) - MODERATI RINGS UP FIRST MAJOR NATIONAL AD CAMPAIGN FOR MODTONES.COM Campaign focuses on personalization of ringtones as individual musical caller-Ids.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 21 September

Monday 12 September

  • New Orleans Photography Helps Support Katrina Victims (14:54) - The Mamlambo Photography Division has made available numerous images of New Orleans and surrounding areas. Now why is this related to mobile development? Well, it's not, really. However, these pictures were all obtained while Mamlambo personnel were attending CTIA in... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments