This company named Bluepulse has a Java ME technology-enabled app that brings together all your personal info together in one MIDlet.

See:

Your place on the Mobile Web with bluepulse

Here's a quote:

 Explore My Widgets... from FlickR to 
 Blogger, to the local television 
 guide... checking your email on GMail 
 or any Pop3 service, looking at 
 traffic cameras through to weather 
 or blood alcohol testers and 
 soooo much more, all free...

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Here's an article about T-Mobile banning 3rd party downloaded apps on their new set of feature phones (but not their smartphones). That means no cool 3rd party Java ME apps like Opera Mini or Google Local for their high volume cell phones... What a p*sser!

See:

T-Mobile bans downloaded Java ME apps

Here's a quote:

 This means T-Mobile feature 
 phone users are prohibited 
 from surfing the Web with 
 Opera Mini, checking maps 
 on Google Local for Mobile, 
 listening to podcasts with 
 Mobilcast, and using any 
 other form of software not 
 pre-approved by T-Mobile.

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Broadcom has come out with a reference design of a Mobile TV cell phone device. It has Java ME technology, natch.

See:

Java ME tech on a Mobile TV device

Here's a quote:

 The BCM92724 includes CellAirity 
 mobile handset software, a 
 complete suite of cellular 
 software and applications that 
 includes advanced multimedia 
 and messaging, web browsing, 
 Java games, and rich connectivity 
 options.

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Motorola is having a game writing contest. You get to enter either a Java ME technology game or a Windows mobile game (sh-yeah... right! Fat chance!).

See:

Moto's Java ME gaming contest

Here's a quote:

 Motorola encourages MOTODEV 
 developers around the globe to 
 put their skills to the test 
 by entering their unpublished 
 games in one of two contest 
 categories -- “Best Java® 
 Software Game”... or “Best 
 Windows Mobile Game”...

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There are three things you should be concerned about regarding Java ME technology on cell phones: Location, Location, Location...

See:

Location services ramping up

Here's a quote:

 Motorola is taking a slightly 
 different approach to the market. 
 It introduced a separate GPS 
 receiver, called the T815, that 
 when coupled with its new MotoNav 
 software turns a Bluetooth-enabled 
 smart phone or Java handset into 
 a navigation device. The receiver 
 is small enough to fit into a 
 pocket, or it can clip onto a 
 car's sun visor. The product will 
 come in two versions -- one for 
 smart phones and one for 
 mass-market Java-based phones.

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Empire Theatres in Canada has launched a new Java ME app that lets you buy your movie theater tickets from your Java ME technology-enabled cell phone.

See:

Buy movie tickets from your phone

Here's a quote:

 To ensure people are comfortable 
 with the application before they 
 download it, Empire Theatres has 
 made a demo available on their 
 website for people to test drive 
 before installing it on their 
 mobile device. Empire Mobile is 
 free from Empire Theatres; and 
 can be used on almost any 
 Java-enabled (J2ME), Internet 
 enabled phone in Canada, 
 regardless of cellular service 
 provider. 

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After trying out the Pearl to see if it would shine, RIM is going back to basics with its return to the BlackBerry line, announcing the BlackBerry 8800 at the 3GSM World Congress.

See:

Back in Black, BlackBerry 8800

Here's a quote:

 RIM used the occasion of the 
 3GSM World Congress... to 
 announce its long-rumored 
 handset, code-named Indigo. 
 Officially known as the 
 BlackBerry 8800, the device 
 will launch first with 
 AT&T...

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HP announced the new iPAQ 510 which is a phone and a PDA (two, two, two mints in one). It's got Windows Mobile 6.0, but more importantly (wait for it...) Java ME technology.

(You knew it was coming, didn't you?)

See:

It's a smartphone, but apparently it s*cks

Here's a quote:

 Just as any other smartphone from 
 2007, the HP iPaq 510 can capture 
 photos or short videos on its 64MB 
 of memory; it can also store Java 
 games and play short movies. The 
 memory can be expanded with a 128 
 MB microSD card.

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Here are 10 trends posted by covergedigest.com related to Java ME technology as observed from 3GSM World Congress which is going on this week in Barthelona, Thpain (if you're using the outrageous Castellano Spanish pronunciation ;-) Thi.).

See:

Thee the Top 10 Trendth related to Java ME

Here's a quote:

 Trend Number One: Answering the Question
   About Why WiMAX
 Trend Number Two: Let the Music Play
 Trend Number Three: Thin Is In
 Trend Number Four: Whole New Product
   Category of Mobile Content Servers
 Trend Number Five: Long Live 2.5G EDGE
   and GPRS
 Trend Number Six: Perfecting the Connected
   Lifestyle, Social Networking and
   Experiences, and the Digital Campfire
 Trend Number Seven: Multimedia Driving
   Growth
 Trend Number Eight: Internet on the
   Cell Phone Is For Real
 Trend Number Nine: Big Cell Phones Makers
   Unveil Products and Plans to Cope with
   Trend Toward Lower Priced Cell Phones
 Trend Number Ten: Standard Settings: Out
   With 3G, In With 4G

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Here's an article that talks about Java ME technology versus Flash. Dude has a bias against Java ME though. He says "only works marginally" and you have to "write once, test many". What a weenie. "Wah, I have to actually do my job and test my code." MSA addresses fragmentation, and there are many working on the solution instead of being part of the problem. One thing's for sure, Flash is not the answer.

See:

Flash is the devil

Here's a quote:

 There really aren't any other 
 good examples of open platforms 
 [on the phone]. There's J2ME, 
 which is what Google Maps is 
 written in. But J2ME only works 
 marginally... You have to write 
 once and test many. There's 
 really no good answer. There's 
 the BREW, but the BREW 
 environment only works on 
 Verizon Wireless phones.

 Knowledge@Wharton: What about 
 Flash or FlashCast?

 McCue: I would love to see 
 Flash take off. I think it's 
 done a better job in Asia and 
 in Europe than it's done in 
 the U.S. From everything that 
 I've seen in the U.S, it 
 doesn't seem like it's 
 happening, which is a shame 
 because it would be a great 
 environment. 

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Here's a recent article in the Daily Star that is a rip-off of an old howstuffworks.com article.

See:

In the near future...

Here's a quote:

 In the near future jewellery [sic] 
 will enhance your outlook in a 
 quite different way and at the 
 same time enable you to make 
 phone calls and control devices.

Also, it's not good to rip-off an article that you put your name on, that is a rehash (change the words around) of someone else's work: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/digital-jewelry3.htm

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Here's a press release saying how a trucking enterprise management software company produced a nifty Java ME technology-enabled app that lets truck drivers effectively communicate back to a company dispatch system--all via Java technology! :-)

See:

Keep on Truckin'!

Here's a quote:

 "In the research and development 
 for our use of mobile 
 communications devices, we 
 determined that a Java-enabled 
 cell phone running an order 
 management software application 
 was most desirable," added 
 Elkins.

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Some people like to rely on tools for software assurance. Others, prefer making sure to take their time writing code and not just spit out programming vomit, just to see if it works. Then, those who ralph out code will rely on tools to clean up the mess. Ick.

See:

Relying on tools is for fools

Here's a quote:

 Even the average cell phone,
 contains three to five million 
 lines of code... there is 
 enormous room for error.

 SureLogic’s tools analyze only 
 Java code... SureLogic’s tools 
 find the most deeply-entrenched 
 bugs that aren’t detected by 
 testing and inspection.  
 Instead of just eyeballing 
 thousands of lines of code and 
 executing it in a number of 
 different situations, Sure 
 Logic works by directly 
 analyzing the code.

But, like P.T. Barnum once said, "A fool (for a tool) and his money, are soon parted." Or... something like that. :-)

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Here's a list of top 10 Java ME applications from the Freakitude Technology Blog. I like that name, Freakitude. Sounds funny. Freak-deaky. Freakazoid.

See:

Top 10 Java ME apps

Here's a quote:

 1. Mig33 - Mig33 is the best 
 cellphone chatting application. 
 You can chat with Yahoo and MSN 
 users through mig and can chat 
 with other users in mig33 
 chatrooms. Also you can make 
 cheap international calls and 
 SMS...

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No, not that Chairman of the Board, the other chairman of the board--of Sun Microsystems, Scott McNealy. I was driving on my way home last night and heard Scott McNealy on NPR's Pacific Time radio show. He was talking about Silicon Valley's connection to Japan. And, about Java ME technology!

Yay.

See:

Chairman of the Board talks about Sun (and Java ME)
Fast-forward to timestamp 11:04 (skip the bird flu and tuna stories)

Here's a quote:

 Kids are into... walking with 
 their heads down, thumbing 
 their cell phones [in real-time
 communication with each other]
 ...I love the way they're [Japan]
 taking advantage of... TV 
 broadcasting to your cell 
 phone...

 And all the monkeys aren't in a zoo
 Every day you meet quite a few
 So you see its all up to you
 You can be better than you are
 You could be swinging on a star
         -- The Other Chairman of the Board Frank Sinatra, Swingin On A Star

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