How to Program the BlackBerry With J2ME

August 9th, 2006 A booby-trapped game of noughts and crosses (BBProxy) has been used in Black Hat hacker conference to show how a Blackberry can be easily hijacked to steal confidential data. Created by a security researcher the game contains malicious code that turns the popular mobile e-mail device into a backdoor into corporate networks.

April 9th, 2009 Did you ever imagine that your blackberry can be used as a modem too. Yes, thanks to berry4all, a free, open-source software for using your Blackberry on alternative OS’es (Linux, OSX)It has been tested on Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora) and OS X (Tiger (PPC & x86), Leopard) and is found to be good.

September 15th, 2007 UK Ministry of Defence is using secure Blackberry's to allow their staff to communicate on the move. It uses The Blackberry Enterprise Server system which allows lost or stolen smartphones to be remote controlled, shut down, or even wiped clean by IT administrators.

June 10th, 2008 iPhone doesn't natively support Java / J2ME. However as a J2ME developer there are two good ways to develop iPhone applications using Java / J2ME.

March 3rd, 2009 Streaming radios are already an in thing for the generation that belongs to us. You don't need anything but a mobile phone or laptop these days.

July 2nd, 2007 Here is a simple one line change which will make your webpages viewable well on iPhone and Blackberry. Add the following to your HTML HEAD section: <meta name="viewport" content="width=320"> Apple is using the following on their RSS reader website: <meta name = "Viewport" content = "maximum-scale=1.6,width=320" > The other parameters you can experiment with: initial-scale (first loaded scale), user-scalable (boolean), minimum-scale (default 0.25), maximum-scale (default 1.6).

June 3rd, 2009 In a recent development, Sun Microsystem has joined hands with mobile phone majors Orange, Vodafone Group and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications to make it easier and cheaper for the developers to bring Java programs to mobile phones. On Tuesday, Sun Microsystem released the new open-source testing tools in JavaOne developers conference in San Francisco.

October 5th, 2009 Vonage releases calling app for iPhone, BlackBerryNEW YORK — Vonage Holdings Corp., a pioneer in Internet-based home phone service, is launching applications for the iPhone and BlackBerry that undercut the international calling rates of major wireless carriers. The free programs let users place calls that are routed over Vonage's network, at least for the international leg.

November 24th, 2008 Verizon launched on the weekend its much anticipated bundle offer with Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry Storm to take on the might of AT&T and iPhone 3G. If you remember the launch of Apple's iPhone 3G (how can you ever forget that mass hysteria!), Verizon witnessed comparatively lower numbers but still the hundreds outnumbered the units available on offer on day one.

July 22nd, 2009 BlackBerry maker: UAE partner's update was spywareDUBAI, United Arab Emirates — BlackBerry users in the Mideast business centers of Dubai and Abu Dhabi who were directed by their service provider to upgrade their phones were actually installing spy software that could allow outsiders to peer inside, according to the device's maker. While many questions about the breach remain unanswered, including who ordered it sent and why, analysts say the disclosure highlights the security risks posed by increasingly popular smart phones like the BlackBerry.

April 29th, 2005 I heard in grapevine that Sun marketing has decided to change the names like J2EE, J2SE, J2ME etc. The name change involves removing the "2" from the platform names.

October 24th, 2005 McDonald's and mobilestr33t has created a mobile marketing campaign. Cell phone users can use mobile coupons to get a free McFlurry.

July 27th, 2005 The Java Platform Manager within the NetBeans IDE enables you to easily install and use the tools and utilities included with many different emulator platforms, such as the Sony Ericsson J2ME SDK. This article explains how you can use the NetBeans IDE to remotely manipulate the file system on Sony Ericsson mobile phones that are enabled by JavaTM Micro Edition (JavaTM ME), MIDP technology.

July 21st, 2005 When Java software developers consider portable devices as platforms for their applications, they often see cell phones as the only real option. Cell phone only focus is now changing.

July 3rd, 2005 More power to Java on mobile platform - J2ME. Looking forward to see some concrete results.