Opera Software has announced the availability of Opera Mini 4.1, the newest version of their mobile Java based web  browser that works on nearly every mobile phone.

You can now control your Open Office 2.3 presentations using your bluetooth enabled mobile phone using a simple java midlet / J2ME software.

A mobile version of the open-source Open Office software suite is now in the works. I’ve been waiting for this for quite a while and I think a lot of you also. With all the thrust nowadays in the mobile world, we would surely need some mobile version of an office suite.

If you want a certain level of privacy from prying eyes on the Text Messages that you send to someone, here’s a Java mobile application that allows you to do just that — send / receive encrypted SMS. The mobile application is actually easy to use enables you to send SMS messages that only the recipient will be able to decipher and read.

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.

While looking for 2D barcode (qrcode version) software for mobile phones that I could use for my txtu.com site, I found several of guys who has started a project to create a 2D barcode scanner software for mobile phones using mobile Java or J2ME.

If you’re someone who needs to regularly check for currency conversions, here’s a Java mobile application that will allow you to do currency conversion on your mobile phone. And it even has a currency conversion table update feature to allow you to get updated conversion rates.

A while back I wrote about my wishlist for Yahoo Go! version 3. Looks like I won’t wait any longer, just in time for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Yahoo has made Go! 3.0 beta available for download. Yahoo Go! is also being opened up to mobile developers. I downloaded a copy to take it for a spin.

Quick info guys: If you’re using the Java mobile version of Gmail on your mobile phone, Google has an update. I was using version 1.5.0.1132 before. Gmail version 1.5.0.1187 is now available. Couldn’t find any changelog yet. I’ve also installed it on my mobile phone but didn’t find any obvious differences.

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.