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New Developer Tools for RIM's Latest Three Smartphones

Together with the release of its brand new BlackBerry Storm, RIM has also announced today the availability of new developer tools. These are designed to create and test applications not only for the Storm, but also for BlackBerry Pearl Flip and BlackBerry Bold, the other two new smartphones produced by the Canadian c...

8 October 2008
10:16 GMT

Apple Updates Java for Tiger, Leopard

Apple has released Java updates for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 (Tiger and Leopard) users. Java for Mac OS X 10.x Update 2 delivers improved reliability and compatibility for several editions of Java 1.4.2 on Mac OS X. The release supports all Intel and PowerPC-based Macs, while Java SE 6 is available on 64-bit, Intel-bas...

25 September 2008
02:52 GMT

Apple Rolls Out WebObjects Update 5.4.3 for Mac OS X 10.5

Apple has updated its enterprise framework for developing scalable Web applications using proven object-oriented design principals. WebObjects 5.4.3 addresses a number of issues found in previous versions of the software aimed at devs looking to deploy WebObjects applications.According to Apple's Support page, W...

16 September 2008
05:24 GMT

Sun Delivers on Its JavaFX Promises

Great news coming from Santa Clara, CA, as Sun Microsystems announced the release of JavaFX Preview SDK (Software Development Kit). Sun Microsystems caused quite a stir in the RIA community when it presented, earlier this year, at the JavaOne Conference, the JavaFX concept platform aimed at competing with Adobe'...

1 August 2008
08:13 GMT

Emoze Offers Push Email for Java Phones

Emblaze, an Israeli group of telecommunications companies, announced the release of a new push email solution for Java mobile phones, named emoze. First released a few months ago, though it only supported Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 handsets, Emoze is now available for more than 800 devices, including lots of ...

25 July 2008
04:35 GMT

New Xperia Handsets Confirmed

Esmertec, a Swiss software, application and services provider, announced today that Sony Ericsson would integrate its Jbed Java Multitasking Virtual Machine in the Xperia family of mobile devices. Yes, you heard (read) well, Xperia is a whole series of handsets, hence besides the upcoming X1 Windows Mobile smartphone...

17 July 2008
11:04 GMT

JCODER: a Simple Java Coding Tool

Have you ever found yourself wondering what day it is and you didn't have anyone to ask to set you straight? Well, those days are over now because you can keep track of time and holidays by using a very simple and powerful application that guarantees you'll never forget any important event in your life.For ...

30 June 2008
12:09 GMT

Nokia and Ikivo Introduce Productivity Tool for Mobile Java Development

Nokia and Ikivo, a well-known supplier of rich media application enabling solutions based on open standards, just announced the joint creation of a complete tool chain that simplifies and allows efficient collaboration between graphic designers and software engineers in the development of Java applications for mobile...

12 May 2008
04:13 GMT

Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 Brings Java SE 6 to Leopard

Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1. Developers are encouraged to go through the release notes, Apple says, which include a couple of known and resolved issues that may affect developers creating Java applications for Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard. The update adds support for Java SE 6, the latest release bei...

30 April 2008
04:30 GMT

Pygmy Borneo Elephants Represent Extinct Species

Here is a dwarf amongst living elephants: the pygmy elephant of Borneo is one meter (3 feet) shorter than its mainland Asian elephant counterparts and remarkably tame and passive. They also look different from other Asian elephants, being rounder and with longer tails, straighter tusks, a shorter trunk and bigger ear...

29 April 2008
03:31 GMT

Spectacular Visual Effects

Visual effects represent attractive elements that make the user experience more pleasant and, at the same time, increase the degree of interactivity of any website. These effects can be obtained through various coding techniques in any web programming language server side or client side like PHP, ASP.NET or Flash, J...

26 April 2008
07:09 GMT

iPhone Devs Invited to Port J2ME Apps to iPhone

Innaworks is introducing alcheMo for iPhone, a fully automated solution for developers looking to work some code magic and deliver native iPhone apps using standard Java ME, CLDC 1.1/MIDP 2.0, as well as associated JSRs. alcheMo uses a patent-pending optimizing translator to convert J2ME (Java Platform, Micro Edition...

10 April 2008
06:46 GMT

Java Coming to the iPhone After All

Sun Microsystems is planning to roll out a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone this summer, "some time after June," according to InfoWorld. The virtual machine is said to allow Java apps to run on the both Apple's devices using touchscreen and motion sensing features, the iPhone and iPod touch.The Java ...

11 March 2008
10:59 GMT

PopCap Games Promises More Titles for Nokia's SNAP Mobile Platform

Nokia and PopCap Games announced at the Game Developers Conference 2008 in San Francisco, that it 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. "SNAP Mobile is all about bringing fun multiplaye...

19 February 2008
04:40 GMT

'Bomberman Land: Battles' Gets You Addictive

Hudson Entertainment, a North American publishing arm for Hudson Soft, recently announced the release of Bomberman Land: Battles, which will be available for all major BREW and Java mobile phones. An award-winning series on gaming consoles, Bomberman Land: Battles follows the million-unit-selling mobile game Super Bo...

29 January 2008
03:40 GMT

SWAT Elite Troops - Shoot to Kill OR NOT

Vivendi Games Mobile announces the launch of SWAT Elite Troops for mobile phones, the sequel to the award winning SWAT Force mobile game. The SWAT Elite Troops game is now available on mobile phones throughout Europe and will be available in March 2008 in North America.SWAT Elite Troops for mobile is based on the suc...

7 December 2007
06:29 GMT

Samsung SGH-E210 Review

Samsung brought with the release of SGH-E210 just another mobile phone that relies mostly on its appearance and less on performances to impress. The handset looks more like a well polished shiny pebble than a communication device and the specification list shows just about the same. It has a highly elegant design and...

30 November 2007
06:50 GMT

iPhone Gets Java Applications and Games?

iPhone lovers will be happy to find that the next SDK, yet to be released by Apple in February 2008 will bring Java support. If the rumor is true, this will be a real milestone for Apple, which "by default" doesn't like and doesn't accept open source operating systems. Even after Steve Jobs stated that "Jav...

26 November 2007
05:40 GMT

Leopard Java Is Stale

Developers were rather surprised with the final version of Leopard, as it contained an older implementation of Java, instead of the latest version. Despite rumors to the contrary, Apple and Sun have nor grown apart and continue working closely together.When developers saw that the Leopard that Apple sells come with ...

30 October 2007
18:29 GMT

Windows Affected by Severe Java Flaws! Patch Now!

Researchers have disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in the Sun Java JRE. These could have been exploited by malicious users to wreak havoc on one's machine; fortunately, they've already been patched. The flaws would affect Windows, Solaris and Linux users. They have been dubbed "highly critical" by Secunia ...

5 October 2007
04:50 GMT

Samsung SGH-E590 Review

Another mid-level Samsung handset makes its way on the market and by means of its technical features it appears that it addresses a specific target segment - camera phone fans. Strictly following its new market strategy, the Korean company continues to develop new models that have a specific target, thus making it ha...

5 September 2007
06:06 GMT

Java Games for Everyone. Even for Free!

3GX and Youpark yesterday announced a collaboration that led to the launching of Dogandbonegames.com, a portal offering high-quality Java games for all those who want fun in their lives. The portal looks nice, it's easy navigable and, of course, the games are ordered by categories like Action, Adventure, Sports...

4 September 2007
09:19 GMT

HI Corporation and Esmertec K.K. Collaborate to Enable the Creation of High-quality 3D Games for Mobile Handsets

Esmertec K.K., the exclusive reseller of Esmertec Mobile and Multimedia software products in Japan, announced a deal with HI Corporation to integrate HI's 3D rendering engine MascotCapsule V3 and V4 on Esmertec's Jbed Java platform. The integration will provide mobile games developers with a powerful platf...

23 July 2007
10:37 GMT

3D Emoticons and Easy File Transfer with ComBOTS

New solutions for getting mobile phone services as personalized as possible might have been a bit difficult until now due to the high number of predefined elements. ComBOTS populates your handset with a variety of characters which will make file management a great deal easier. CoBOTS is meant to make personal digital...

22 June 2007
09:49 GMT

New Java Browser for Mobile Phones

Japanese company jig.jp announced that it will make a new version of its "jig browser" available on the global market this summer.Released in October 2004 in Japan, the "jig browser" was the first Internet browser that allowed the viewing of websites meant to be visualized on a PC, on Java-enabled phones. The browse...

13 June 2007
10:00 GMT

PS3 Getting New Server Support from HELIOS

Leading digital workflow specialist HELIOS is the latest to have tapped into the power of the Playstation 3 platform. Using the powerful Cell processor, HELIOS has customized a version of Linux to allow its server suite to run on the PS3 hardware. The HELIOS team admits that the reasons for porting HELIOS to the PS3...

29 May 2007
06:48 GMT

Google's New and Buggy Interface

Google's recently introduced interface for the search engine is not so efficient as it was described before, because it is entirely written in JavaScript, a platform that might make the product incompatible with some browsers. As Ionut Alex mentioned, if you disable Java in your browser, 50 percent of the Google...

18 May 2007
06:26 GMT

Sun Introduces JavaFX Mobile

Sun Microsystems has introduced the JavaFX Mobile software system in order to improve the flexibility of the mobile system. It is based on the Java platform and comes as an improvement for faster, better, more reliable applications.On the occasion of the JavaOne conference, Sun has presented their concept of the Java...

11 May 2007
05:41 GMT

Google: Have a Cup of Java!

Google today announced that it will take part in the JavaOne, an annual conference hosted by Sun Microsystems with the purpose of talking about the technologies provided by the company. The creators of the Java platform scheduled the event for May 8 - 11 so, if you want to meet the Google employees, you should visit ...

11 May 2007
02:18 GMT

Sun Offers Java to the OpenJDK Community

The Java Development Kit (JDK) is probably the most widely used Java SDK (Software Development Kit). Sun Microsystems announces the open source of JDK for the Java Platform Standard Edition(Java SE) and they will also make available the Test Compatibility Kit associated with OpenJDK. While JDK was made available und...

9 May 2007
08:31 GMT

Nokia Brings Software Updates

Nokia has just presented the Series 40 platform 5th Edition for mobile application developers. This is basically meant to improve the services offered until now to the mobile consumers, may it be for business use or just for personal needs.This 5th Edition for Nokia Series 40 offers the developers the possibility o...

8 May 2007
05:48 GMT

Mobile TV of Tomorrow

The new trend in the mobile communication industry is surely going to be TV viewing as the videos are becoming more and more usual among handset owners.The most amazing thing would be to actually interact with a TV show host via mobile phone. Regarding the matter, Ericsson and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation a...

17 April 2007
09:57 GMT

Sony Ericsson Announces New Java Platform 8

Sony Ericsson announced earielr this week its first mobile phone to support Mobile Services Architecture (MSA), the next-generation Java umbrella standard (JSR-248). The Z750 clamshell phone is the first phone based on Sony Ericsson's Java Platform 8 (JP-8), supporting a range of new Java programming features in...

27 March 2007
04:48 GMT

Ali the Penguin Brings Snow on Your Mobile

Inlogic software has recently launched the long-awaited game Ali the Penguin. The game features funny graphics, extended mini games and freely available ring tones as well as wallpapers for more than 350 mobile phone types.Besides the excellent graphics and vast gameplay possibilities, Ali the Penguin brings the uni...

6 March 2007
03:51 GMT

Sun Announces Support for the Next Generation Mobile Java Platform

Sun Microsystems announced that full support for Mobile Service Architecture (MSA) - the next generation Java platform for mobile phones - is now available across its mobile product line and the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment.Sun, along with 13 other companies, participated in the development of MSA thro...

1 March 2007
10:20 GMT




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