Surprises sure is non-stop this year. Even with talks about a US recession, Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo! for the price of 44.6 billion dollars. This will really be a pretty exciting year.

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.

During the past week I was kinda busy creating my personal blog. I want Javamidlet to focus on topics about, well, mobile Java but I have some other interests that I would want to blog about. So I guess I would have to finish my own personal blog. And now, I’m happy to announce TxTu. If you want to know more about TxTu …

Now here’s a bit of a news. Didn’t see this one coming. MySQL folks has agreed to sell the outfit to Sun for a cool billion dollars. Read the details.

This is my last entry for the year 2007. The year 2007 has been a pretty exciting one. The year ahead holds a lot of promise and more excitement. May everyone have a Happy and Prosperous New Year ahead!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! May the joy of Christmas and the gift wishes come true. Enjoy the holidays with your friends and family. Next year is a very exciting year for the Java mobile community with all the things that have been happening.

Happy Holidays to everyone!

Sun announces a $1 Million Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program which will foster innovation and recognize the most interesting initiatives within open source communities worldwide.

I guess it’s the time of the year that most (mobile) game publishers are quite busy. I’ve been quite busy too trying out some of  the new Java mobile games available in time for Christmas. I have observed that the recently released games have really been different from those a year ago.

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!

It’s the turn of the Irish Java Users Group to hold it’s own Java conference. They’re currently looking for speakers for the conference to talk about Java technologies.