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What Makes a Killer App?

I truly believe that the killer application is about two things: better access to people, better access to information. This means that there is no single killer app. For some, the killer app is about access to their “corporate data”, to others is…

Data Sync API for J2ME Early Draft is Available for Review

Earlier this month the Data Sync API EG released an early draft of the spec for (your) review… read below for details. As you may know, data synchronization is one of the key approaches (together with plain-ole HTTP, Web Services, SOA, etc) to…

New at J2MEDeveloper.com (Nov. 12th, 2004)

New to tech-tip section: “A Generic LCDUI Form” “A Simple Ordered Hashtable” Also revisited “Comments on Nokia SOA”… Visit J2MEDeveloper.com ceo — C. Enrique Ortiz J2MEDeveloper.com Web Page: http://www.j2medeveloper.com Web Log: http://www.j2medeveloper.com/blog

Important Symbian ownership milestone…

Symbian, the mobile phone operating system jointly owned by several leading handset makers, passed on Wednesday (July 7th) a significant milestone that most of its owners have agreed to increase their stakes in the company, preventing Nokia from increasing its holding above 50…

The Father of Java[tm] Technology Reveals its Conception

(Excerpt from Sun System News, Volume 77, Issue 2) Setting no limits and tying no bounds, Gosling said that his inspiration for Java came by taking a step back, observing and absorbing the changing context of computing during the mid-90s, which was shifting…

Notes on GeoFencing…

As a person who has been involved in the development of location-based solutions, I see and understand the benefits of geo-fencing, especially for tracking expensive and/or sensitive assets such as vehicles, (perishable) merchandise, or similar. But if applied to people, and if abused,…

New article on Web Services for J2ME (IBM DeveloperWorks)

The Web Services APIs (WSA) for Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME), as defined by the Java Community Process for the Java Specification Request 172 (JSR 172), are two independent optional packages for remote service invocation and XML parsing… Read more at IBM…

Comments on Nokia's SOA Announcement

Recently Nokia announced its vision for a networked service-oriented architecture for mobile phones. I was finally able to find and read the whitepaper. Some people have claimed this announcement as the most important announcement at JavaOne, a pretty substantial claim. This architecture is…

True WORA will never happen.

In response to Michael's blog entry “Write once, pray, and debug everywhere?”, which in turn was in response to Russ' blog entry, I think that: True WORA will never happen. Companies will continue to differentiate themselves. Things have gotten much better though, and…

The Concern with CLDC-based Profiles Today

To “profile” or not to “profile”. That is the question. There is the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP), and the Information Module Profile (IMP). And most recently the new Set-top box (STB) profile JSR was submitted to the JCP. In this essay we…