J2ME News Desk

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 a... (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 th... (more)

(June 3, 2003) - Java developers targeting a broad market of global handset manufacturers can soon take advantage of the enriched capabilities of Motorola's i.JV30, the latest embedded Java virtual machine from Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector. The i.JV30, integrated with... (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 mobil... (more)

(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 an... (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 Netw... (more)

(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 enterpris... (more)

Xora, Inc., and PointBase, Inc., have announced a partnership to provide an integrated solution that will give database application capabilities to J2METM devices. Complex enterprise back-office applications, such as SAP, Siebel, and Clarify, can now be deployed on offline J2ME d... (more)

(August 2, 2002) - Activision, Inc., the second-largest developer, publisher, and distributor of video games; and wireless video company JAMDAT Mobile Inc., have agreed to jointly publish hand-held conversions of Activision's Activision O2 action sports titles games for wireless ... (more)

(July 12, 2002) - There's frantic Web activity going on as the Palm fraternity worldwide tries to work out whether it's been hoaxed or not. At www.pocketpcthought.com a photo briefly appeared online of a purported PalmPC named Oslo, with a full-color screen with six photos displa... (more)

(July 9, 2002) - Nazomi Communications, Inc., a pioneer in universal and scalable solutions for boosting the performance of software running on the Java Platform, announced that it has licensed Sun Microsystems' Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) and Mobile Information... (more)

(June 18, 2002) - 4thpass Inc. has made an agreement with Ericsson, the leading telecom supplier, to resell its mobile Java technology. Ericsson has endorsed the 4thpass Mobile Application System (MASTM), and will now make the software available to carriers via Ericsson units worl... (more)

(June 18, 2002) - Borland Software Corporation announced the availability of Borland® Web Services Kit for JavaTM and Borland® JBuilderTM MobileSet 3 for integration into the recently released Borland® JBuilder 7. Borland's new development enable developers to create and integrat... (more)

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-enab... (more)

(May 23, 2002) - Mobile gaming is about to explode. Sprint plans to bring mobile entertainment to the next level, utilizing J2METM to offer a superior gaming experience. The mobility of Sprint's PCS Phones combined with the enhanced speeds and graphics of Third-Generation (3G) te... (more)