Archive for November of 2007
2007
Nov
29
Posted by: kihbord
Posted in: Java Mobile Applications
GPS or Global Positioning System equipped mobile phones has been slowly coming up in the market. This will steadily increase over time and people will be able to use these in a lot of applications. For instance, if you find yourself in a city and want to find out where you can stay for the night. It would be a great convenience if you can look at a map on your mobile phone and search for a hotel near you. You would think that you need GPS for this, well that’s not entirely true.
2007
Nov
28
Posted by: kihbord
Posted in: The mobile phone is the computer
Things have been really changing in the mobile industry. Key activities like Google’s announcement of its open mobile platform called Android have contributed in bringing us closer to the convergence of the mobile phone and the personal computer.
2007
Nov
27
Posted by: kihbord
Posted in: Java Mobile Development
Back from the holidays! In light of the need for me to be in the field during the upcoming weeks, I took the extra time to update my notebook so that I can use it for mobile development and to continue writing about the exciting things that are happening on the mobile space. I have been using my notebook as a dual boot system (Redhat Fedora and Windows 2000) and I thought it’s about time to update the Unix/Windows environment that I was using with new stuff.
2007
Nov
24
Posted by: kihbord
Posted in: Java Mobile Applications
Microsoft is one of those companies that has provided their own solution for mobile phones from the ground up with their Windows Mobile platform and .NET framework. But it looks like even Microsoft will now be using Java for mobile phone applications.
2007
Nov
22
Posted by: kihbord
Posted in: Not Java Mobile
To all readers in the US: It’s that time of the year again and we’d like to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. We hope that you and your family have a happy and exciting holiday. Enjoy!
2007
Nov
22
Posted by: kihbord
Posted in: Java Mobile Development Software
Release Candidate 2 for the NetBeans IDE version 6.0 is now available. NetBeans would like to encourage everyone to give their feedback about the upcoming NetBeans IDE v6.0! The final NetBeans IDE 6.0 release is planned for late 2007.
2007
Nov
20
Posted by: kihbord
Posted in: Java Mobile Development Software
The JavaFXâ„¢ Script Plugin for NetBeansâ„¢ IDE 6.0 has been released as open source! The source code is subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 (”GPL”) and the Common Development and Distribution License(”CDDL”) terms.
2007
Nov
20
Posted by: kihbord
Posted in: Others
Now, this is something different. I love wearing jeans but I would never have thought of creating a mobile phone that can go with my jeans. If you love wearing jeans then this may interest you. Now can buy a Java-enabled mobile phone that provides a “fashion statement”.
2007
Nov
20
Posted by: kihbord
Posted in: Java Mobile Development
Looks like there’s some people who are also interested in creating a massively multi-player online game (MMOG) for the Android platform. There are great possibilities in developing such a mobile game for an upcoming open mobile platform.
2007
Nov
18
Posted by: kihbord
Posted in: Mobile Java Games
M-Sudoku is a J2ME version of the popular SuDoKu puzzle game. The name Sudokuâ„¢, which means single digits, is a trademark of puzzle publisher Nikoli Co. Ltd. in Japan. It has become a popular logic-based number puzzle on the PC and on the mobile phone.
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