Mobile News

With Nokia already owning about 48% of the Symbian company, they have made an offer to buyout the other owners (Sony Ericsson, Samsung and others). This is in addition to its recent buying spree — they just bought a Social Network startup called Plazes.

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With the recent release of the software development kit (SDK) for the Apple iPhone, Sun has announced it’s plan to come up with a Java virtual machine (JVM) for the iPhone.

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TibiaME, a free J2ME MMORPG for mobile phones, scores 3rd at the British Telecom Wi-Fi developer challenge. The prize is being awarded by the British Telecom in order to promote innovative and easy to use Wi-Fi technology for the mobile industry.

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Nokia and PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, will bring connected mobile Java games to the SNAP Mobile platform. The award winning Chuzzle is the first game to be re-developed by PopCap under a multi-game agreement.

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I’ve compiled photos and videos about Android, Google’s open mobile platform, that has created quite a stir at the recent Mobile World Congress. Checkout the photos and videos including some screen shots I’ve created of the recently updated Google Android SDK

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Gameloft, which was recently announced as the no. 1 mobile gaming company , is now expanding its reach with the announcement of several games crafted for touch screen equipped mobile phones.

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I kept asking myself why Microsoft would acquire Danger Inc. The company (Danger Inc.) is a mobile device manufacturer that makes the popular HipTop / Sidekick mobile phones is a heavy Java user. Danger Inc is actually a licensee of J2ME. Why would Microsoft acquire a company that uses heavily uses Java on its mobile phones? I tried to search the Internet for answers.

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Microsoft has announced at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona the acquisition of Danger Inc. in line with its expansion into the mobile consumer space. There’s a twist to this story, did you know that…

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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.

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Gameloft has beaten the competition in the 1st Annual Wave Awards which was hosted by the Academy of Wireless Arts, Video and Entertainment. The mobile game CSI: Miami has been selected as the 2007 Favorite Mobile Strategy Game while Heroes: The Mobile Game has been recognized as the 2007 Favorite Mobile Action Game
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