I'll be off-line for the holidays. So, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all my blog readers and wish you all a very Happy Holiday (even the iPhone and Android fans :-P ;-) ). Have a merry one! Also, here's a link to Santa's Tower Bloxx Java ME game to keep this post topical. ;-)

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Santa's Tower Bloxx Java ME game

See you back here in 2009!

Hinkmond

Yeah, the iPhone iPhreak fanboys have their AppStore. That's nice. But, getjar.com has been around since 2004 as an awesome AppStore for Jave ME apps for cell phones for 4+ years. They recently announced their 3rd annual Mobile Award winners.

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GetJar 3rd Annual Mobile Awards

Here's a quote:

 GetJar (www.getjar.com), the 
 world's most popular destination 
 for downloading mobile 
 applications, has announced the 
 third annual GetJar Mobile 
 Awards: Google Maps, Opera Mini, 
 scanR, Twitter and Strands Social 
 Player are this year's stars. 

Hinkmond

Tick-tock, tick-tock. Times a-tickin' away... Make sure you have signed up for the Java Mobile Media and eMbedded Developer Days conference (M3DD) which will happen January 21-22, 2009 in Santa Clara, California. It will be a rockin' good time with talks on LWUIT, On Device Portal, JavaFX Mobile, and much much more...

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Times running out for M3DD conf signup

Here's a quote:

 Learning about technologies is great
 but at the end of the day what often 
 makes a project come to life is 
 connecting with the right people at 
 the right time. People with the 
 expertise and the enthusiasm to 
 bounce off ideas, to put the pieces 
 together, provide help, and to 
 collaborate with. And why not have a 
 little fun along the way?

 The Community Social on Wednesday 
 evening is an event you won't want to 
 miss. Eat, drink, and hang out with 
 community members, project leaders, 
 geeks, and industry experts. Have fun, 
 be merry, and socialize!

Hinkmond

Here's a fun Mobile Developer Survey that Dr. Albert Lia from the Carnegie Mellon CyLab Mobility Research Center has created.

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Mobile Developer Survey Project

Here's a quote:

 "Mobile Developer Survey Project" 
 is a research project by Carnegie 
 Mellon CyLab Mobility Research 
 Center.  At the moment our main 
 research goal is to understand 
 how mobile application developers 
 make decisions about both market 
 and technical issues.  In fact 
 we'd like to help them providing 
 a decision framework to better 
 understand key factors to focus 
 on and succeed.

Hinkmond

Here's a link I got from Eric Arseneau. Everypoint is coming out with a Java ME app that spiffs up the GUI on Java ME cell phones with cooler graphics. They call it Nemo.

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Found Nemo with Java ME tech

Here's a quote:

 Everypoint is launching a mobile 
 application platform Monday 
 called Nemo, which is intended 
 to give Java-based phones 
 iPhone-like visual capabilities. 

Hinkmond

In the "Why didn't I think of that?" category, we have this Java ME app that senses when a baby kicks inside a pregnant mom's belly and sends a SMS text message to a Twitter account each time. Ha! I guess you can't start to Twitter too young with Java ME, eh?

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Kick it, baby Java ME tweeter

Here's a quote:

 The Java application receives 
 the sensor values and analyzes 
 them.  When a kick event is 
 detected, a Twitter message is 
 posted via the Twitter API.  I 
 chose to use Twitter because 
 it is easy to initiate an SMS 
 message to any mobile phone 
 when a kick is detected.  It 
 also acts as a data log that 
 can be accessed 
 programmatically for 
 visualization or archiving.

Hinkmond

Steve J. is a grinch! There will be no Java ME technology or Flash on the iPhone this Christmas. Bah Humbug!

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No Java ME on iPhone this Xmas

Here's a quote:

 Although both Sun and Adobe 
 have expressed a desire to 
 back the iPhone for nearly 
 a year, neither the Flash 
 Player nor Java Virtual 
 Machine run on the device. 
 And it appears that little 
 to no progress is being 
 made. Sun and Adobe, the 
 chief proponents of the 
 Java and Flash platforms, 
 respectively, repeat what 
 they've said all year: that 
 they are still working to 
 get their software 
 platforms running on the 
 trendy phone. Apple, for 
 its part, did not respond 
 to numerous inquiries...

Hinkmond

B-I-N-G-O
B-I-N-G-O
B-I-N-G-O
And Bingo was his name-o.

It seems that the game Bingo is big, big I tell ya, on all those Java ME tech-enabled cell phones across the pond. What fun! Big money too.

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Big money to be had with Java ME... BINGO!

Here's a quote:

 Mfuse strategy is to develop 
 Java applications and games 
 that are optimized for the 
 maximum number of devices, 
 functioning across the 
 increasing range of handsets, 
 each with their own operating 
 system.

Hinkmond

Did you ever want to become a pugilist? How about a Java ME tech-enabled pugilist? Well, Artificial Life, Inc. lets you turn your Java ME cell phone into a boxing ring, which is fine if you're into jabs, uppercuts, and roundhouses.

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Java ME boxing

Here's a quote:

 Turn your mobile phone into 
 a boxing ring and let your 
 thumbs pack the hardest 
 punches!  In Klitschko 
 Boxing you will train as 
 one of the Brothers and 
 challenge your opponents to 
 fight for the Championship 
 Title. Special feature - 
 Klitschko vs Klithscko – 
 possible ONLY here!

Hinkmond

Release the Titan! Sprint has released a new Titan SDK for the Java ME CDC/Foundation Profile based mobile platform.

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Titan on the loose

Here's a quote:

 [Titan] improves upon the older 
 Mobility IDE by enabling 
 developers to use standard Java 
 desktop development workflows 
 and development practices with 
 the inclusion of the 
 CDC/Foundation Java Virtual 
 Machine and OSGi framework for 
 new desktop-class applications.

Hinkmond

Here's an example what you can do with JavaFX. I'm hypnotized... Maybe, it's just the techo music playing in the video

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JavaFX example: Draggable animation

So, this is just the beginning, since as long as you write to the Common APIs, your JavaFX app will run on Java ME devices--with or without the techno music.

Hinkmond

Yay! JavaFX Mobile (redux) beta launch today. It's all good now, since it runs on Java ME technology.

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JavaFX Mobile runs on Java ME tech

Here's a quote:

 JavaFX Mobile builds on top 
 of the market-leading Java 
 ME platform to take advantage 
 of its powerful, device-level 
 capabilities.

 Pairing these two powerful 
 technologies gives content 
 creators a no-holds barred, 
 non-compromising environment 
 in which to express 
 themselves...

Hinkmond

Looks like it's a week of weird named Java ME companies. This time Fireswirl is in the news buying up a portion of a Pushmail company, Tysen.

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Fireswirl invests in Tysen.

Here's a quote:

 Tysen is an integrator of a push 
 e-mail ("pushmail") and mobile 
 messaging software... powered by 
 SEVEN® who... supports more than 
 450 mobile devices across all 
 the major operating systems 
 including Windows Mobile, Brew, 
 J2ME...

Hinkmond

SurfKitchen won some type of award from EContent Magazine this past week--strange name for a company, stranger award, "named one of the digital content companies that matter most".

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SurfKitchen cooking up Java ME

Here's a quote:

 SurfKitchen delivers a carrier-class 
 Mobile Internet Platform that enables 
 mobile operators and their partners 
 to deploy an on-device experience for 
 subscribers to discover, purchase and 
 use a range of customized mobile 
 content and services on a variety of 
 devices.

Hinkmond

It's that time of year again. If you've got a cool idea for a Java ME (Mobile) presentation for the JavaOne 2009 conference in San Francisco, 02Jun2009 - 05Jun2009, make sure to submit your abstract by Thu. 19Dec2008.

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Do you have a cool Mobile idea for JavaOne?

Submit it to: JavaOne 2009 submissions

You could become a Rock Star of the JavaOne 2009 conference. Hey, it can happen.

Hinkmond