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Monthly Archives: September 2005

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Voice-Text Service…

For a while I have been writing that mobility and handsets is first and most about communication… And even yesterday I wrote about this, and about taking messaging to the next level – there is still a lot to innovate on this area.…

Google and NASA

NASA and Google launch research alliance. Pretty cool… “Google and NASA share a common desire to bring a universe of information to people around the world” “Researchers will collaborate in areas including new materials, bio-info-nano convergence, supercomputing, data mining, and bringing entrepreneurs into…

Mobile Data Usage & The 2 Faces of Mobility

Interesting article Cellular Industry Insiders Indifferent To Mobile Data, about how people who work in the wireless industry is not putting in practice what they preach… i.e. not downloaded data (or consuming data services). David Haskins in his blog goes on expanding on…

Need for Cordless Power

There is a short but neat article on Mobile Pipeline by Reno Rossetti of Fairchild Semiconductor titled Truly Mobile Devices Need Cordless Power. I have read/studied Nikola Tesla's vision on wireless power – Nikola was ahead of everyone else, ahead of his time,…

The Main Issue with MSA for CLDC (JSR 248)

Updated on 9.27.05 As you may know, MSA for CLDC is in public review as we speak. If you care about the short-term future of Java ME in handsets, you should review the spec and provide feedback. MSA for CLDC is trying to…

Google Sky…

Google Earth is a very, very cool product… Talk about a cool, useful tool. But, have you noticed the stars in the background? The constellations are very accurate too! You can see The Pleiades, Orion, etc… Awesome… In many respects, Google already have…

Palm Teams With Microsoft for Smart Phone

“Palm Teams With Microsoft for Smart Phone”… Doesn't that sound just wrong? Palm, one of the innovators on the mobility and PDA space, is an example of bad execution. Execution is what makes or breaks a company… By now, Palm should have been…

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D

If you haven't yet seen this IMAX movie, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, you have to go see it. And if you have children or youngster in your family, take them with you. It is a great movie that brings a…

J2MEDeveloper.com is now JavaMEDeveloper.com!

As you may know, all of Java 2 Platform such as J2ME, J2SE and J2EE have been officially re-branded as Java Platform — this is as JavaME, JavaSE, and JavaEE respectively. This became official at JavaOne 2005. In other words, all the J2xx…

New Article – SATSA for Java ME: The Security APIs

SATSA (JSR 177) is a relatively new standard intended to provide a Java ME platform access to secure storage and cryptographic operations provided by a security element. SATSA Part 1 introduced concepts, communication APIs and reference implementation. This Part 2 of SATSA article…