T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom's global mobile communication division, has
selected nGame's Java QuickStart Program as the cornerstone of its launch of
mobile Java gaming throughout Europe. The two-year deal sees nGame shipping
120 J2ME games, designed for a wide variety of Java-enabled handsets, which
T-Mobile will distribute in Austria, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In
addition, T-Mobile will also be using nGame's Java Games Store platform WOTAN
as their content delivery platform at launch in the UK.
"This is by far the largest and most significant content deal yet seen
anywhere in the mobile games industry," said nGame CEO, John Brimacombe
"WOTAN is nGame's next generation enterprise level platform to deliver mobile
entertainment content," said nGame CTO, Dave Lloyd. "This will be the first
ever-live deployment of a vending machine for micro-Java games. nGame
Quick... (more)
(December 3, 2002) - Nearly 1 billion handsets will be capable of running
Java applications by 2006, according to the latest ARC Group market research
study, and nearly all mobile handsets will be Java-enabled within five years.
Anticipating the pervasiveness of Java, Hughes Network Systems, Inc. (HNS)
has signed a license agreement to incorporate Insignia's Mobile Foundation
Java-enabling software platform into HNS-designed Thuraya mobile
satellite/GSM handheld phones.
The phone's dual capabilities enable customers to access GSM services
wherever available, and automatically swi... (more)
(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 service, MyMobilePix enables
consumers to upload, store, share, and print digital images. Users can
download and store photos on their handsets, then view them without
connecting to the network... (more)
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-performance, small-footprint JVM for a variety of
configurations (CLDC, CDC) and profiles/extensions (MIDP, JTWI, i-mode DoJa,
Vodafone, Sprint and others). The 735i is among the first available mobile
ph... (more)
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 is appealing about the mobile platform rests in its ability to
dynamically update content. For media companies, especially news
broadcasters, this would create a conduit by which the latest headl... (more)