Archive for January of 2008

Here are some more games schedule for release this first half of the year coming from Vivendi Games Mobile. Looks like several new games are coming out from VG Mobile this first half of 2008.

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This has been a very suprising 1st quarter — Sun acquires MySQL, now Nokia goes for TrollTech, wonder what will be next. Anyway, I’ve been searching the Internet for more resources on how to use a mobile phone’s bluetooth. Here are some links to information and tutorials about using a mobile phone’s bluetooth on your J2ME code.

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Wow, just found out that Nokia is to acquire Trolltech Qt — yup the very company responsible for the Qt software found not only in linux mobile phones but also the software that provides the base for the KDE GUI found in Linux distributions.

Link to Digg

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There are a lot of reasons that you might need to use a mobile phone’s bluetooth when you are developing a software for cell phones. Instead of creating your own library of mobile phone bluetooth functions, you can just use an existing bluetooth library for mobile phones.

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It looks like the NetBeans User Group in Munich was a great success as in SRO (Standing Room Only) success! Didn’t read anything about mobile Java but it’s always great to hear about successful user group meetings (especially if it involves some merrying and partying after the meeting ).

Great guys! Maybe you can send over food and beer if you don’t have any more room.

Google has announced the official launching of the YouTube for Mobile web site which has been available for test access for sometime. The YouTube for Mobile allows mobile phone users to play / view YouTube videos on their mobile phones.

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I started playing the Nitro Street Racing mobile game from Gameloft and one thing that makes it entertaining is that it offers different story lines during game play.

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Eclipse has announce an update on the upcoming EclipseCon 2008 which will be held on March. Some of the updates include AMD becoming a Gold sponsor and Research in Motion sponsoring a BlackBerry® developer day during the conference.

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Just got news of some upcoming Java mobile games this first quarter of 2008 from Vivendi Games Mobile. The four mobile games that will be coming out soon are Pub Darts, Wordox, Celebrity Hangman and Spiderwick.

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Just to remind you, the Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days conference is just a few days away. It’s going to be held on January 23-24 at the Sun Santa Clara Campus auditorium. You can still register here.