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Connect2Media and RayFusion Join Forces

Posted on Sep 5 2008 by iGerry Comments: Comments Off Filed under: Connect2Media, RayFusion, Stuff about Mobile

Connect2Media, a publisher/developer/distributor of games that include the mobile platform is joining with RayFusion. RayFusion is a global distributor of mobile content that specializes in games.

Project Capuchin SDK available for download, bridging J2ME and Flash Lite

Posted on Sep 5 2008 by iGerry Comments: Comments Off Filed under: Adobe, Flash Lite, J2ME, Project Capuchin, Sony Ericsson, Java Mobile Development

Sony Ericsson has made available the Project Capuchin SDK. Project Capuchin is a Sony Ericsson’s software development kit for connecting mobile Java or Java™ ME and Adobe® Flash Lite™. The SDK is a set of APIs, a packaging tool, documents and getting-started tutorials.

NBA Smash mobile java game

Posted on Sep 2 2008 by iGerry Comments: Comments Off Filed under: Gameloft, J2ME, java mobile game, sports, Java Games

I really enjoyed playing the Kobe Bryant mobile game the last time and being able to play NBA Smash is great. If you had played the Kobe Bryant basketball mobile java game, NBA Smash lets you play more of the street type of basketball.

NetBeans version 6.5 in the horizon

Posted on Sep 2 2008 by iGerry Comments: Comments Off Filed under: Eclipse, J2ME, NetBeans, Nokia, S60, SDK, Java Mobile Development

I won’t question the GREAT support for J2ME development in the upcoming NetBeans 6.5 (or even in 6.0) but I can’t help but notice the really promising features of PHP development under the near final NetBeans 6.5. The PHP NetBeans team is really pouring it on to provide a good PHP IDE inside NetBeans.

Poll results: IDE used for mobile Java development

Posted on Aug 29 2008 by iGerry Comments: Comments Off Filed under: IDE, J2ME, polls, Stuff about Mobile

For several months, I have posted a survey of which Integrated Development Environment is being used by the visitors of javamidlet.com web site. Here’s a final tally of the results of the poll.

Google Android Challenge list of winners released

Posted on Aug 29 2008 by iGerry Comments: Comments Off Filed under: android, Android Developer Challenge, Google, open mobile platform, Stuff about Mobile

After months of waiting (for us) and months of eye-popping adrenaline coding (for the participants) the list of Google Android Challenge winners are finally out. My congratulations to the winners of 275,000 (cab4me, CompareEverywhere, Ecorlo, GoCart, Life360, Locale, PicSay, Softrace, TuneWiki, Wertago) and 100,000 USD prices.

Dream specs for Google Android mobile phone

Posted on Aug 27 2008 by iGerry Comments: Comments Off Filed under: android, phone specs, Stuff about Mobile

Lots of news and forum talk about Google and HTC’s upcoming mobile phone the HTC Dream. From the looks of it, the cell phone will have a 528mhz CPU from Qualcomm.

Android bluetooth API won’t be in SDK 1.0

Posted on Aug 26 2008 by iGerry Comments: Comments Off Filed under: android, bluetooth, Google, open mobile platform, SDK, Stuff about Mobile

I’ve just read an email about Google’s explanation of why the bluetooth API for Android won’t be in version 1.0 of the SDK. It’s kinda sad ‘coz we’d have to also see some delays in I would imagine pretty good ways of using bluetooth in an open mobile platform. Google explains …

Serious security flaws found in J2ME and Nokia Series 40 phones

Posted on Aug 22 2008 by iGerry Comments: 1 comment Filed under: J2ME, Nokia, S40, security, Symbian, Phones / Devices

The Series 40 of Nokia is one of the most widely used mobile phone operating system. Bugs in the Java Virtual Machine and Nokia Series 40 OS have been found which can result in security breaches in Nokia’s Series 40 cell phones and allow access to sensitive data on the phone.

LWUIT J2ME Project source code available

Posted on Aug 21 2008 by iGerry Comments: 1 comment Filed under: 3D, J2ME, LWUIT, SVG, Java Mobile Development

The Lightweight User Interface Toolkit or LWUIT, a project to enable J2ME developers to create consistent and easily usable mobile Java applications, has made its source code available under the GPL2 license. Previously a binary only download was provided by the project.