October 2005

Friday 28 October

  • eMbience CEO at BREW 2005 Dev Con in Mumbai, India (08:00) - eMbience CEO Dr. Nimish Shrivastava to Lead Session on Global Entertainment Success at BREW 2005 Developers Conference in Mumbai, India, this Week. Founder of emerging “infotainment” firm to offer tactical lessons for succeeding in the global mobile industry... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 20 October

  • MIDP RSS Reader (09:00) - NetBeans has an article on how to easily create an RSS reader for MIDP using NetBeans 4.0. The complete source code is provided. This provides a good introduction for end-to-end application development using NetBeans 4.0 with an application that... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 19 October

  • Get Ready for Linux: OSDL MLI (07:38) - If the guys over at the Open Source Development labs are successful with their Mobile Linux Initiative, we could see far more handset with Linux running on them. This would add to the mix of Symbian, BREW, and J2ME development... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 18 October

  • Latest QUALCOMM BREW Numbers for October 2005 (08:00) - Compared to September, the number of operators (56), countries(29), and manufacturers (37) has not changed. So what has changed? Nothing, actually. QUALCOMM hasn't updated their dollar figures yet, either. I was hoping they would update them for the end... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 17 October

  • Symbian: Signing and the Security Model (07:02) - Forum Nokia has published an update to their Testing and Signing with Symbian Platform Security document. The main updates to this document have been pricing information. The document itself is still fairly new, only have been published about 6... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 14 October

  • Help for Device Fragmentation (10:40) - DevX brings us a great article on how Netbeans with the Netbeans Mobility Pack can help manage the device fragmentation problem. (And no, that isn't a problem cause by taking the sledge hammer to your phone in frustration!) Sure,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 13 October

  • Mobile 3D Tutorials in J2ME (09:18) - Sony Ericsson has a number of different tutorials and examples on their developer website. These go over not only JSR-184 but also Mascot Capsule. They have a tutorial series that has three sections right now: Part one: Quick jump... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 12 October

  • MIDP Web Services API with Example (23:26) - Forum Nokia has finally release their MIDP Web Services API Developer's GUide that they've been teasing us with for nearly a week now. The package contains an example and the main guide is a PDF. This document describes the XML... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Mobile 3D by Example: JSR-184 In Action (08:07) - Claus Höfele brings us an article about JSR-184 Mobile 3D Graphics. In particular, he discusses immediate mode and gives plenty of coding examples, building up to drawing a fully textured cube (shown right). Playing games on mobile devices is... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 11 October

  • Killer Game Programming in Java (07:33) - The print version of this book has no information on J2ME. However, the author has the contents available online, including a piece on J2ME that did not make the print version of the book. Killer Game Programming in Java is... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 10 October

Friday 7 October

  • Three New Samsung BREW Handsets Available (08:15) - Verizon quietly launched the Samsung SCH-a970 through Best Buy a while back. This is a BREW 2.1.3 handset with nearly 6MB of RAM, about 60MB of storage, and has TransFlash support. It has a standard 176x220 resolution display on... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 6 October

  • Symantec and Nokia Bring Improved Security to Symbian Smartphones (08:15) - Nokia is very serious about making sure their Symbian smartphones are safe for users. Although the average person may not care, if there is risk of virus or hacking an enterprise environment will completely reject a product. So, they... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 5 October

  • End-To-End Network Programming for Symbian OS (07:23) - Forum Nokia brings us a couple of example implementations of enterprise level client-server interaction with both HTTP and Sockets. These include everything form the client all the way to the back end database. This example is an HTTP reference... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 3 October

  • BREW: Moving to 3.1 Handsets (11:32) - QUALCOMM has released a document on their website titled "Application Migration Guide from BREW Client version 2.x to 3.1.x." This document goes over a number of "gotchas" when running code on a 3.1 handset that you'll need to be aware... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Bluetooth with JSR-82 and OBEX (08:34) - Bruce Hopkins brings us this article over the IBM DeveloperWorks about using JSR-82 within your J2ME applications to move files around in part 1. The Bluetooth protocol stack lets you use several methods, including RFCOMM and Object Exchange (OBEX), to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments