Category Archives: Java

Project Capuchin – Flash Lite, meet JavaME


Capuchin monkey.

Sony Ericsson has announced Yet Another Mobile Platform:

Project Capuchin will provide developers with an intuitive tool to create applications with a cleaner user interface (UI) without sacrificing

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Open Handset Alliance? Please…

Platform battles… aren’t they fun?

Actually, they’re not. They keep a lot of innovation from happening. Will Google’s move to launch the alliance make the platform battle finish sooner than it otherwise would? Probably not. From that perspective, the Open…

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Yahoo! Go Mobile soon in >200 devices from Nokia, Sony Ericsson etc.

Spent the afternoon at the Daytona Session here in Stockholm. A mini-conference focusing on the future of the internet. One of the speakers was Stefan Waldeck from Yahoo! Sweden. He talked about mobile (which by the way…

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Smartphones beware – the laptop is shrinking: MUnit – a taster of what to come

A few disruptive innovations are getting ready to hit the market, opening up for small device manufacturers to fill the hole between the <3 inch display devices (mobile phones) and the >10 inch display device (laptops). The hole reserved for…

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Opera Mini: The Little Browser That Could

It’s a classic underdog story. When a couple of engineers at web browser maker Opera suggested to management that they should try building a mobile java version of their browser, no one listened. Well, they built it…

Posted in Apple, Java, JSR290, Mobile 2.0, Opera | 3 Comments