The coolest thing I saw at JavaOne 2008 was...
...the Livescribe Smartpen, which comes with a Java-based development kit. The pen is cool: it's a pen with ink, but it also has a tiny camera in... more »
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JavaOne: Geert Bevin on Java as API
Actually Geert’s talk was called “Boldly Go Where Java Has Never Gone Before” but to me it was really centered on the idea of Java-the-language as... more »
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Rails Development for iPhone with rails_iui
I was using the iUI toolkit, which contains a number of CSS styles and JavaScript event handlers to make iPhone Web apps look and feel somewhat like... more »
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Adobe Open Screen, where the hell is Apple?
Adobe's announcement of the open screen project is the biggest announcement for the world of RIA today. Pretty much every player in the mobile market,... more »
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Project Capuchin - Sony Ericsson Mates JavaME & Flash Lite
Sony Ericsson announced today that they are experimenting with a new technology which plans to integrate Flash inside JavaME applications. This will... more »
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Coming soon: Swing for mobile Java, but better
For years, Java ME developers have faced difficult choices when it comes to application UIs. Because of the multitude of platform and device features... more »
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Bigger And Better: Trends in Mobile Screen Sizes
An interesting couple of posts in the past week by Morten Hjerde, in which he compiles Norwegian usage data (mobile phones with color screens, support... more »
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Sun continues pursuit of Java for iPhone
Sun continues to pursue talks with Apple to have Java applications run on the iPhone while acknowledging a third party's efforts toward the same goal.
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Alive and kickin': Java on Windows Mobile
Recently on the Java Champions alias some people were surprised to learn that Java has been available on WIndows Mobile for some time now. Obviously... more »
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7 Android Applications That Will Make Your Friends More Annoying
7 of the most invasive and best mobile social networking applications in development for Android
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The Mobile Market That Isn’t? Russ Closes Mowser
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For years we have heard about the huge opportunity the mobile web offers developers. With billions of handsets in service, if even just one percent... more »
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WPF Meets the iPhone
The iPhone is one of the most compelling and exciting user interfaces to appear on any consumer electronic device, with many innovations that make it... more »
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Nokia iPhone Killer to Have Java Inside
Speaking at a recent conference, Forum Nokia VP Tom Libretto, confirmed that the Finnish telecom giant has a new touchscreen device in the pipeline,... more »
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Google's Android: Is this what "fragmentation" means?
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Sanjay Jha, COO of Qualcomm's chipset division, had strong words about Google's open source Android platform. According to Jha, Google's Android is... more »
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The iPhone SDK: APIs Apple Didn't Want You to Know About
With the release of Apple's SDK for building iPhone applications, many have plunged head-first into this new platform for the first time, with the... more »
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Apple’s iPhone SDK Prohibits Real Mobile Innovation
Last week Apple opened up the iPhone and introduced a software developer’s kit (SDK) to allow third parties to develop software for the iPhone. This... more »
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iPhone SDK: No Joy For Me (So Far)
Like 10 bajillion other Mac fans yesterday, I downloaded the iPhone SDK. It took me four tries to get it, but I finally got it. I installed all 5.3 GB... more »
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iPhone SDK comparison chart
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So with hardware accelerated 3D graphics, an integrated database API, tightly integrated performance monitoring tools, and a highly specialized... more »
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Sun Bringing Java to iPhone
Sun Microsystems is developing a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone and plans to release the JVM some time after June, enabling Java applications... more »
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Sun: We'll put Java on the iPhone
Sun Microsystems is developing a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone and plans to release the JVM some time after June, enabling Java applications... more »
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Android Location
Android Location will be a revolutionary social mapping service to change the way people use mobile phones to keep in touch with their friends. It... more »
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6 Of The Coolest Android Applications
Here’s a small compilation of the coolest Android applications to date, along with a GPS based MMORPG.
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Mobilizing Your Blog in 5 Minutes
It just takes 5 minutes to create mobile version of your blog (optimized for iPhone too).
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Sprint Nextel Goes Live with Mobile OSGi
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This week’s news from Sprint Nextel marks a cornerstone of OSGi adoption: Sprint has released its first developer version of the Titan platform, an... more »
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Building commercial grade mobile Python applications
Discussion about feasibility of Python for Series 60 (Nokia) as a mobile application development platform. Based on a real case.
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