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Cross-Platform Mobile Widgets Development

Did you missed last InsideMobile Conference in San Jose, California? It was a great conference about mobile development in eBay Conference Center. Here is my presentation about cross-platform mobile widget development. Mobile Widgets Development ...

Type less in your mobile! Try the new Mobile Tiny URL free service

Hi! A long time not posting. I was working ;-) Here is the first project I want to share with you. It's still in beta testing, and I'm opening to suggestions, critics, bugs, and other comments. You can try it free at www.mobiletinyurl.com Mobile Tiny URL is a URL shortener...

PHP and MySQL on Symbian

Yes guys, I’ve just installed PAMP (Personal Apache, MySQL and PHP) on my N95 and it worked! Do we need another language for Symbian? I’ve also been a beta tester of a .NET Compact Framework for Symbian and it worked well too (but this is for another post). ...

Localize me... even if I don't have a GPS

Let's analyze many ways to get the user's geolocation. Recently, Google updated its Google Maps Mobile application with a new " My Location " feature that works even without GPS. If you do not have a GPS-enabled phone, you might see a blue dot surrounded by a light blue...

Opera Mini 3.0: Web & RSS Browser, Photo Sharing and more, all in one free Java ME application

In a recent post, I mentioned that Opera Mini 2.0 was one of the best Java ME application User Interface. Now, Opera (the Web Browser Company) releases Opera Mini 3.0, a free version of the mobile browser for Java ME devices. Don't confuse this application with "Opera Mobile", a...

A Flash Lite alternative in Java ME?

Sun Microsystems and Laszlo Systems, announced the code name Orbit Project. This project will allow open source framework OpenLaszlo to generate Java ME midlets without Java programming. Will it be the Flash alternative in Java platform for mobiles? OpenLaszlo is an open source...

The future of Java ME

Everyone who worked with Java ME a couple of years ago (for 'J2ME' fans, this is the new name of the platform), should feel very confortable with the platform today. That is because Java ME didn't evolve too much in the last years. We are at a time of great changes in...

Do you want to see great User Interfaces in Java ME?

If you are a Java ME (ex J2ME) developer, you know how difficult is to make a great UI using low-level APIs, drawing directly over Canvas. But you can do it, you can do a great User Interface using Canvas without making a big sized and slow application. Don't you believe me?...