J2ME News Desk

(September 24, 2002) -- SpiritSoft and Softwired, leading providers of open-standard messaging technologies, have announced an alliance that enables customers to benefit from the industry's best open-JMS frameworks and robust J2ME solution for connectivity to the mobile enterprise. Softwired's iBus//Mobile supports the development of mobile solutions that make business applications accessible on various mobile/cellular networks. iBus//Mobile offers true mobile connectivity, with support for disconnected operation and integration with most common carrier technologies. SpiritWave Open JMS Framework enables enterprises to leverage and integrate existing legacy systems - including IBM WebSphereMQ and Tibco Rendezvous - to build robust, flexible and future-proof Java applicati... (more)

J2ME News in Brief: New Java-Enabled Phone Ships

French telecom major Alcatel has made its choice of platform for running Java applications and services in its "One Touch" 735i mobile phones: JBlend, which is now licensed by 13 different handset manufacturers and deployed in mobile phones offered by wireless operators around the world. JBlend is the flagship product of Aplix, a Sun Java licensee since 1996, and includes a high-performanc... (more)

Mobile Java Eyed by Big Media Companies in the UK

Some of the UK's biggest media companies, like News International and broadcaster Endemol, are anticipated to start rolling out initiatives designed to provide them with more direct relationships to consumers using mobile handsets. According to leading analysts, media companies are seeing mobile Java (J2ME) as the perfect platform by which to deliver content directly to subscribers. What... (more)

Java-Based Photo Sharing Makes Its Mobile Debut

(February 28, 2003) - North America's very first wireless J2ME-based software app for viewing and sharing photos on Java-enabled mobile phones has been announced. Called "MyMobilePix," the application is the joint work of Tira Wireless, a publisher of wireless Java apps for mobile phones, and Photogra, a provider of online digital imaging solutions. Leveraging Photogra's back-end Web-based... (more)

Tira Wireless and Photogra Launch First Java-Based Photo Sharing Application for Mobile Phones

(February 13, 2003) - Tira Wireless, a publisher of wireless Java applications for mobile phones, and Photogra, a provider of online digital imaging solutions, have announced MyMobilePix, the first wireless J2ME-based software application available in North America for viewing and sharing photos on Java-enabled mobile phones. MyMobilePix leverages Photogra's back-end, Web-based service a... (more)