MMO gaming stands for Massively Multiplayer Online gaming. Wow, how geeky. But, if that's how you roll, that's how you roll. Bloomsix announced a new MMO game for your Java ME cell phone called, Armada: Kingdoms. Play it as you contemplate your life as an adult living in your mom's basement. :-)

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MMO game for Java ME technology: Armada: Kingdoms

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 Bloomsix has just announced 
 exactly what the world has 
 been missing - a massively 
 multiplayer online strategy 
 game playable on any java-
 enabled mobile phone.  Armada: 
 Kingdoms will allow players 
 from all over the world create 
 and maintain their own towns...

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Guppy Games has released a mobile version of their Girls Inc. TeamUp game, where 3 pre-womyn animated characters team up to solve puzzles.

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Java ME & grrrlz

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 Cooperation is the name of 
 the game in Girls Inc. 
 TeamUp.  Help a group of 
 girls, each with their own 
 special abilities, solve 
 puzzles and reach the exit 
 in 50 unique worlds.

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Hey, thanks, Bill Gates! Your Windows CE on this TVCompass brand SR 1500 Digital Media Remote (DMR) enables Java ME technology to run on something Al Bundy usually sticks down his pants when watching the ol' boob tube.

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Windows CE enables Java ME tech on TV remote

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 In the SR 1500 incarnation, the 
 DMR design resembles a cross between 
 a typical smart remote control and 
 a cellphone. Like many cell phones, 
 it has a QVGA (320 x 240) color 
 display, plus 802.11b/g wireless 
 networking.  There's also a Web 
 browser, with optional J2ME 

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Did you ever notice that both Google and Google's YouTube have this "thing" for Java ME development? Out of one side of their mouth they say fragmentation-this, blah-blah-blah, fragmentation-that, blah-blah-android. And out of the other side of their mouth they talk about their great new mobile apps they keep releasing (like YouTube's new YouTube for Mobile app) on Java ME that will run on 100 million of your favorite cell phones.

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Google and Java ME, they got a thing going on

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 In addition to providing access, 
 YouTube is letting users 
 personalize their experience 
 through their YouTube accounts, 
 Favorites, Videos and Channels. 
 In addition, users will be able 
 to upload videos from their 
 mobile devices for instant video 
 sharing -- and rating and 
 commenting, too.

 YouTube for Mobile via a free 
 downloadable Java application...
 supported only on J2ME (Java) 
 MIDP2 devices with streaming 
 video capabilities...

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Hey, our little 'ol Mobile and Embedded Developer Days conference that ran this past Wed. 1/23/2008 - Thu. 1/24/2008 in Santa Clara, Calif. made the news.

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Read all about our M&E Dev Days conference happenings

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 "We call it the mobile developer 
 alliance and it's essentially a 
 developer activism group," Barr 
 said on Wednesday evening. "It's 
 just a grassroots thing. We haven't 
 thought about it too much. The idea 
 is to bring developers together to 
 give them a common voice and try 
 and work on some of the 
 fragmentation and issues that the 
 industry has."

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There's a live stream today and tomorrow showing our Mobile & Embedded Developer Days conference from 8:30am - 7:00pm, US/Pacific time. See the conference URL for more info: https://developerdays.dev.java.net/

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Live Video Stream from Mobile & Embedded Developer Days

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 This conference is devoted solely 
 to the technologies of mobile and 
 embedded Java platforms and will 
 be a unique opportunity for 
 application developers of 
 intermediate and advanced skill 
 levels, platform developers, and 
 technical experts at tool vendors, 
 OEMs and carriers to get introduced 
 to the community, to join in and 
 collaborate.

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Once upon a time, in the land of Googlonia, there lived an Android. This Android ruled all of Googlonia and thought a lot of himself. One day, a visiting venture capitalist came and said he could make the Android the most beautiful clothes. But, the clothes had a very special property that it would be invisible to anyone too stupid or not worthy enough to be as great a software engineer as the Android.

The Android first wanted to confer with his staff. Now, each member of the Android's staff also thought highly of themselves. They did not want to admit that the clothes were invisible to them. So, they praised the Android's new clothes.

The Android also conferred with the technical journals and the media. The media also not wanting to look stupid (yeah, right!), also said the clothes were very beautiful. Mwahh!! Molto bello!

So, the Android held a procession through town, all decked out in his newly acquired start-up, er, uh... clothes. As the public continued to praise the invisible clothes not wanting to look stupid either, a small boy finally said, "But he's got nothing on!" And, thus we have the following San Jose Mercury News story.

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Link to the story of the Android's New Clothes

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 For the first time, developers 
 are griping about Google the 
 way they used to complain about 
 Bill Gates & Co.  The search 
 giant's phone software is buggy, 
 they say, and lacks key 
 features.

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In India, Atom Technologies is testing a new way to transfer your credit card into your Java ME technology-enabled cell phone. It's a cool concept to get rid of having credit cards in your wallet and instead use something you already carry around with you anyway. No, not your Tickle Me Elmo doll, your cell phone.

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Swiping cell phones for payment in Mumbai

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 The data would be stored in a 2-D bar 
 code format...
 
 After the credit card data is burned 
 on the mobile phone (irrespective of 
 the operator, but in collaboration 
 with the card-issuing bank), the 
 handset can be used instead of credit 
 cards.... the system will work only 
 on Java-enabled phones

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I've read that guys actually do watch the Grey's Anatomy TV show. (I'll just leave it at that...) Well, here's a chance for Grey's Anatomy TV show fans to play the Grey's Anatomy Mobile Game on their Java ME technology-enabled cell phone. And, no one will ever find out...

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Play your little girlie TV show game, go ahead

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 Gameloft... is bringing Grey's 
 Anatomy: The Mobile Game to 
 casual gamers and fans alike. 
 ...the game gives players...
 unlimited different skill-based 
 surgery mini-games taken from 
 actual episodes of the show.

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You do the math. When you write a Java ME application, like Simdesk's SimMobile, despite all the blah-blah-blah about fragmentation this and fragmentation that, it works on many different phone handsets. When you write an app for the iPhone, it works on one measly handset.

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About to kick RIM's butt: Simdesk's Java ME enabled SimMobile

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 Initially, SimMobile will be available 
 as a hosted service provided by carriers, 
 but in future the company aims to let 
 enterprise customers operate a server 
 behind their corporate firewall.  It can 
 operate on any handset that is Java 
 J2ME compatible...

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Did you ever want to be a funky fresh mix-master DJ? Well here's your chance with Java ME technology. Yo.

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Funky Fresh DJ Mix-Master

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 DJ Mixer is a J2me application 
 from Nokia will make it easy to 
 record and edit music files 
 right on their mobile phones 
 from now on.  DJ Mixer is 
 available for several Nseries 
 phone models.

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The chalkboard in schools is obsolete--same goes for the whiteboard. Now there is the Java technology-enabled SMART board that lets teachers project interactive computer screens that are touch-sensitive so that students can learn on-the-fly with help from Java technology.

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Java Jazzes Up the Classroom Chalkboard

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 Korte said the possibilities for 
 instruction are endless. "In my 
 mind, the boards let me turn the 
 math classroom into a lab.  I can 
 introduce things like color, 
 detailed diagrams, animated Java 
 applets that change before the 
 kids' eyes."

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Bug Labs has done it! They put Java ME technology in Lego-like components that "snap" together to form all kinds of interesting hardware forms.

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Java ME in Lego-like gadget parts

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 ...a small mini-computer complete 
 with Wi-Fi and onboard memory, 
 that can take on up to four 
 snap-on modules.  By writing 
 software in JAVA, a creative mind 
 can come up with any number of 
 combinations that large 
 electronics companies may have 
 never thought of.

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In the battle royale of iPhone vs. Blackberry, you get non-Java ME technology-enabled versus Java ME technology-enabled. And that's important since there will always be a fight for developers. In this case, those smartphones with Java ME tech will win.

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Non-Java ME enabled vs. Java ME enabled smartphone war

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 Some analysts predict a brawl 
 between iPhones and BlackBerrys; 
 others say the real fight pits 
 the smartphones against open-
 source handsets

Yo, Adrian!!!! Ain't gonna be no rematch!

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I love when native app weeines have to eat their words and admit that Java apps are pretty darn fast and have the performance that's good enough to run on mobile phones.

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Java game just as good as native games, says Symbian lover

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 As you may have noticed over the 
 years, All About Symbian has tended 
 to concentrate on native Symbian 
 applications and games rather than
 stuff that runs through Java.

 Sola Rola defies all that... This 
 emphasis on talent instead of raw 
 technology means that the game looks 
 really good...

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