Bank of America via Banc of America Strategic Investments Corp has just invested in mFoundry. mFoundry is a company that focuses on mobile applications for the financial sector. They are also the creators of the mobile ajax development tool for J2ME called mojax,. The mojax project is headed by Rodney Aiglstorfer and has Craig Setera (creator of EclipseME) as Technical Lead.

Google showed off a demo of it’s Android open mobile platform at the Google I/O conference this week. I’m very excited about the upcoming mobile phones sporting the Android platform. You can take a look at some of the great videos and photos of the Google Android demo.

NetBeans has announced the winners of its NetBeans 6.1 blogging contest which is about sharing their experiences with the new NetBeans v6.1 integrated development environment.

Opera has announce the technical preview release of its Opera Mini web browser for Google’s open mobile platform, Android.

Looks like it’s good to go! Innaworks, a New Zealand company, has entered the beta testing period for their alcheMo product. It enables standard J2ME applications to run on the iPhone and iPod.

Looks like somebody got adventurous and resulted in getting the Android open mobile platform running on the Nokia N810. Pretty cool don’t you think?

Does it look like we won’t be waiting that much longer for the first Android mobile phone from HTC? Pocket-Lint has posted an article about an invitation by HTC for a launching event entitled “Witness the next wave of HTC Innovations”.

If you missed the recently concluded Mobile and Embedded Developer Days at Sun’s Santa Clara Campus Auditorium last January 23-24, you’re in luck ‘coz you can still get to watch some videos.

It looks like that NetBeans v6.1 will soon be coming out. You can read more about upcoming changes in Vince Kraemer’s blog at blogs.sun.com

Vivendi Games Mobile and Nokia has just announced an agreement to offer a line-up of mobile games to owners of Nokia mobile phones via Download!