Here's one LiMO pulling up that won't make guys at Google's Android group happy. The LiMO Foundation announced their first release of their Linux-based mobile device platform, LiMo Platform Release 1. Woo-hoo! Real unified Linux phones we can put our hands on to run Java ME technology, not vapor-droid-ware. :-)

See:

No vapor-ware, LiMO drives up

Here's a quote:

 The LiMo (Linux Mobile) Platform combines 
 standards and open-source projects into a 
 modular, hardware-independent plug-in 
 architecture that provides a secure run-
 time environment, says the Foundation. 
 Founded in January 2007, the industry
 group was confronted with what many see 
 as a competitive mobile platform when 
 Google and the Open Handset Alliance 
 (OHA) announced the Linux-based Android 
 phone stack platform.  Both efforts are 
 attempting to consolidate the fragmented 
 mobile Linux market around common 
 platforms in order to reduce costs and 
 promote interoperability. 

Hinkmond

Here's a report on the claim by Innaworks that they can take a Java ME game and convert it to run on the iPhone by using their new AlcheMo tool. Riiiight...

See:

Be wary of Java ME game converter

Here's a quote:

 As any fule kno, to make native iPhone 
 games developers will need to sign up 
 for Apple's SDK.  However, what to do 
 if they've got a bunch of existing 
 Java games that they want to port 
 across?

Hinkmond

Cubans, rejoice! You've been missing out on playing Bejeweled waiting in line for your loaf of pan. ¡No mas, mi compadre! Now, Raul Castro has lifted the ban on ordinary Cuban citizens from being able to own a Java ME tech-enabled cell phone. ¡Gracias a Dios!

See:

Say hello to my little friend!

Here's a quote:

 President Raul Castro's government 
 said Friday it is allowing cell 
 phones for ordinary Cubans, a luxury 
 previously reserved for those who 
 worked for foreign firms or held key 
 posts with the communist-run state.

Hinkmond

Eat them up, yum! Player One is coming out in May with a fishing game called Bass Fishing Mania. It's a fun way to pass some time on your Java ME cell phone

See:

Gone Fishin' with Java ME

Here's a quote:

 It's a Java game, not an N-Gage title, 
 but it shares several characteristics 
 with Creatures of the Deep.

 The game also promises a whizzy 3D 
 hybrid rendering system (translation: 
 nice visuals), and swarming fish AI...

Hinkmond

The question for Google's Android now after Verizon was declared the winner of the FCC 700MHz cell phone spectrum auction, is "Who's yer daddy?". We can all guess the answer to be that Verizon will be Android's daddy in this unnatural relationship.

See:

Android, Who's Yer Dadddy?

Here's a quote:

 But analysts said the open-access 
 playground comes with restrictions 
 and Verizon Wireless, as the winner, 
 will be the one making the rules 
 and setting the schedule.

 "It's unreasonable to expect these 
 guys to go radically changing their 
 business models if they successfully 
 defended the gaggle from encroachment, 
 from the Googles and Comcasts of the 
 world,"

Hinkmond

If you want to spiff something up, make it sound French. You know, add an accent over some letters, add silent pronunciations, or heck, just put an "e" at the end of a word. Nokia announces the Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte, Java ME tech-enabled cell phone.

See:

Sounds kinda French, has Java ME

Here's a quote:

 Other useful features include Java 
 MIDP 2.0, Voice memo, T9, Calendar, 
 Calculator, Built-in handsfree, 
 speaker phone with a ‘Lithium Ion 
 1000 mAh’ battery with a life of 3 
 hrs Talk and a Standby time of up 
 to 300 hours (12.5 days).

Hinkmond

Is Adobe going to port Flash to the iPhone SDK? Let me hear ya say: "Er... Uh... Hell, maybe..?"

See:

Hell, yes. We'll go, we guess.

Here's a quote:

 Shortly after the CEO of Adobe told 
 stockholders that his company is 
 "committed to bringing the Flash 
 experience to the iPhone" and that 
 "we can now start to develop the 
 Flash player ourselves," the company 
 has apparently attempted to cool the 
 tone of those statements.  It now 
 says it needs to work with Apple 
 "beyond and above" what is possible 
 through the iPhone's software 
 development kit.

Hinkmond

Sold! The FCC has sold the 700MHz spectrum in auction for a mere $19.6 billion, but is not revealing who the wienerwinner is yet. Is it Google? Is it AT&T or Verizon? Whoever it is might want to start getting ready for all the Java ME apps that will be available on their new cell phone network in the near future.

See:

Who are you? Who-who, who-who.

Here's a quote:

 The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) 
 has announced the end of the US 700MHz 
 auction, but won't be saying who's snapped 
 up the frequencies for another 10 days or 
 so while they officially close the sale.

 The delay is down to the lack of bids on 
 the D block, which had a reserve of $1.6bn 
 and an obligation to provide a network to 
 which emergency responders would have 
 priority access. 

Hinkmond

LiMo seems to be saying to Google, "Hey! Don't tase me, bro!" LiMo is getting some more supporters now that it has defectors who came over from LiPS back in Februrary. So, LiMo can stand up to Android's strong-arm tactics. Or, you would think...

See:

LiMo to Google's Android, "Don't tase me, bro!"

Here's a quote:

 The LiMo Platform will provide much 
 greater choice than Android to handset 
 companies and to consumers; the user 
 interface can be selected freely, as 
 can the applications and the content. 
 For example, will it really be possible 
 for a user to choose Yahoo! as the 
 preferred search provider on an Android 
 handset?  I'm not sure.

Hinkmond

Ah, baseball spring training is in full swing over here in the States. The smell of leather, pine tar, and juiced up baseballs are in the air in bone-dry Arizona and gator-packed Florida. The great Casey Stengel (manager of the Amazin' NY Mets in the 1960s), once said, "There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them." And, he was right.

There comes a time in every man's life, when you think you've seen every possible use of Java ME technology but then along comes Cippi the Farting Chipmunk Java ME app for your cell phone.

See:

Cippi the Farting Chipmunk

Here's a quote:

 Enjoy the soothing ice blast of 
 Cippi!  Plan Cippi blasts on your 
 friends - work mates, your boss! 
 Make sweet music.  Essentially 
 it's the farting machine on your 
 mobile.  Download the trump 
 selecta to your phone for free.

Now, I've seen everything... uh, maybe.

Hinkmond

I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for it. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when I found it, I didn't know how much I needed it. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did. "How do I use multiple filters with the Java ME Device Matrix?"

See:

Using Multiple Filters with the Java ME Device Matrix

Cool! I've always wanted a way to search for which Java ME tech-enabled cell phones support which JSRs (like location and M3DAPI). This matrix is a nice and easy way to do that. Now if only Morpheus would get off my back about needing more kung fu training! :-)

Hinkmond

Well here's one way the CIA, NSA, FBI, and Jason Bourne can track the movements of terrorists. Just load up a Java ME tech-enabled cell phone with Niloy Rahman's (<ahem...> if that is his real name...) new Java ME tracking app, and surreptitiously drop the device into the target's backpack, jacket pocket, or briefcase. Uh... just remember to turn the ringer off. :-)

See:

Track down terrorists with Java ME tech

Here's a quote:

 Mohammod Momtazur Rahman a.k.a Niloy, a 
 fourth year student at electrical and 
 electronic engineering department of 
 Khulna University of Engineering & 
 Technology (Kuet) has developed a 
 software through which any individual's 
 motion and location through his cell 
 phone can be measured accurately.
...
 The software has been developed using 
 Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) 
 using application programme interface.

Hinkmond

OK. I just found out something that the Apple Inc. iPhone can do that a Java ME technology-enabled cell phone can't do... yet. In a presentation today at the OSiM 2008 conference, Fabrizio Capobianco (CEO of Funambol) mentioned the iFartz application for the iPhone. There's no Java ME equivalent (that I know of). Too bad...

See:

iFartz for the iPhone

Can someone port this to Java ME please? Do you think it requires NetBeans? :-)

Hinkmond

Here's a good Mobile Technology blog to watch: Andreas Constantinou's blog. Andreas is the Research Director at VisionMobile.

See:

Andreas Constantinou's VisionMobile Blog

Here's a quote:

 The VisionMobile blog is a space 
 where VisionMobile analysts and 
 industry insiders exchange views 
 on the fast-changing mobile market 
 and the trends that define the 
 future direction of telecoms.

Hinkmond

Is Sun going to port Java ME to the iPhone SDK? Let me hear ya say: "Hell yeah!" Come to my JavaOne 2008 conference technical session: How to Port phoneME Advanced Software... in May.

See:

Let me hear ya say: "Hell yeah!"

Here's a quote:

 Sun said Friday it will build a JVM 
 (Java Virtual Machine) for the Apple 
 Inc. iPhone and the iTouch, now that 
 the iPhone's SDK (Software Developer 
 Kit) beta version has been released.

Hinkmond