Opera joins the LiMo Foundation
The Limo Foundation, which promotes a Linux platform for mobile phones, has another new member. Opera has now joined the Limo Foundation.
The Limo Foundation, which promotes a Linux platform for mobile phones, has another new member. Opera has now joined the Limo Foundation.
Gameloft creates games for mobile phones and portable game consoles. The game publisher has continued to create and lead the mobile games market with the Gameloft catalogue now containing nearly 300 games available for download.
Sun’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, has announced that Sun has just shipped it’s 100,000,000th copy of the JavaFX runtime. This also coincides with the launch of the JavaFX Mobile platform.
Opera has announced a “turbo” version of its Opera Desktop, Opera Mobile and Opera Devices SDK. Turbo Opera is geared towards business customers which allow for savings in bandwidth consumption. According to Opera, up to 80% decreased in bandwidth consumption can be attained using Opera Turbo.
Sun has launched JavaFX Mobile together with the JavaFX SDK 1.1. NetBeans has also made available JavaFX 1.1 support for the current NetBeans 6.5 IDE. Support for the JavaFX platform is available for several cell phones from different manufacturers.
Further to the reorganization of the Vivendi group’s videogames subsidiary Activision Blizzard (which includes the development studio Vivendi Games Mobile), a group of colleagues (supported by management and human resources) have created Talented People.
The Nokia 5630 XpressMusic is device supporting EGPRS, WCDMA, HSDPA/HSUPA (3.5G) and WLAN. Enjoy videos, music, and graphics on the 2.2” QVGA TFT display. Take photos with a 3.2-megapixel FullFocus (EDOF) camera with a dual LED flash. Additional features include USB charging with simultaneous data transfer, UPnP, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, and USB 2.0 High-Speed.
Imagine this, “You come into a coffee shop as a “mobile guest“, you order something. You check if you have enough electronic cash on your mobile phone. Pay for it with your cell phone using secure short range wireless communications meant for transactions.”
The Android development team has just made available version 1.1 release 1 of the Android SDK. This is inline with the recent updates to Android devices providing new features and functionality. API changes are quite minor. Several items have been fixed, some new features for the Map and dialer have been added, plus several API changes. You can check out the release notes.
Just to remind some of you who may not have registered for the upcoming Mobile World Congress this year. The event which is usually a time when most people in the mobile industry meet and launch new products looks exciting this year. The event is scheduled on Feb 16-19, 2009 at beautiful Barcelona, Spain – wish I could go, maybe next year