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Get started with MIDlet development using NetBeans 6.0

Anders Borg — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:58:00 +0000

Here's an updated tutorial that shows how to use the new Game Designer tool, as well as basic MIDlet development. NetBeans 6.0 CLDC/MIDP Development Quick Start Guide

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Trend spotting

Anders Borg — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:25:00 +0000

This article in the renowned Swedish business magazine "Dagens Industri" indicates a few trends worth noting: Telia släpper trimmat turbo-3g: Nu öppnar vi alla kranar All relevant operators in...

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Getting into mobile marketing: mm3 Mobile Channel AB

Anders Borg — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:48:00 +0000

Long overdue, here's a brief note about one of the companies I'm involved in now: mm3 Mobile Channel AB, or simply mm3. mm3 focuses on response-based marketing via mobile phones. We also do...

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NetBeans 6.0 is out and about

Anders Borg — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:27:00 +0000

I'm breaking the silence for this heads-up: NetBeans 6.0 is completed and released, and can be downloaded from the NetBeans site. There are big changes to the Mobility package, so beware if you are...

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Top Mobile Applications 2007

Anders Borg — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:50:00 +0000

Top Mobile Applications 2007 lists what Fierce considers are the best mobile applications, only that these are primarily Internet-based services, not local applications, even though they all have a...

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The New Economy is real, kind of

Anders Borg — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:54:00 +0000

There was a lot of talk about The New Economy before the IT crash a couple of years ago, but I sense there's something close to it still floating around. Primarily Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL and...

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FAQ on Mobile Ajax

Anders Borg — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:37:00 +0000

Simply put Mobile Ajax is a version of Ajax that has features for handling the differing and small display sizes and other limitations specific to mobile devices. The FAQ doesn't say anything about...

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When hobbyists go mobile

Anders Borg — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:22:00 +0000

Note that Vivek Jishtu the author doesn't necessarily select the commercially most relevant platform (which Windows Mobile is far from). He still admits that Java ME is the choice for volume...

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If you ask the wrong people, you might get the wrong answer

Anders Borg — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:05:00 +0000

BuzzCity (a partner of Abiro while mopill.com was up) made a survey at MoCollywood with participants at the conference about how they used mobile services, and not surprisingly (as they are not in...

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Nokia on acquisition prowl

Anders Borg — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:51:00 +0000

Acquiring both NAVTEQ and Enpocket is a sure sign Nokia takes location and advertizing seriously and intends to become a leader in such for mobile phones. Maybe they've already figured out that...

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Nokia acquires NAVTEQ

Anders Borg — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:18:00 +0000

In a recent press release from Nokia it's clear this is a fact. NAVTEQ is a leading provider of map solutions I admire Nokia's consistency in its goal to be(come) the world leading provider of...

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Bitching about the mobile Web

Anders Borg — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:26:00 +0000

Update 20071002: Stephen Wellman at InformationWeek counters by saying 'The Top Five Reasons The Mobile Web Rocks', using the same topics. The fight is on... Here's a rant from DigitalMediaWire on...

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The Indian market is evolving at a quick pace, now with 200M subscribers

Anders Borg — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:06:00 +0000

A few key points: 'attracted a further 8.31 million wireless subscribers in August to touch 201.29 million users' Note that a few months ago it increased by 6M per month! 'the number of people...

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Pimp up your N95 with applications

Anders Borg — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:07:00 +0000

GISuser.coim provides a listing of free applications for the Nokia N95, some of them using the integrated GPS, e.g. locr, Sports Tracker, Yahoo! Zonetag, twibble and Nokia Maps. For the few that has...

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Mobile 2.0 is upon you, whether you risk it or not

Anders Borg — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:22:00 +0000

According to Rudy de Waele the upcoming Mobile 2.0 conference in San Francisco is close to sold out. I guess I need to bury my hatchet about nonsense non-descriptive buzzwords and accept that for...

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Toy robots' effect on technology

Anders Borg — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:37:00 +0000

Like mobile phones caused a rapid enhancement and miniaturization of e.g. camera and battery technology, toy robots provide a similar effect on gyros, motors and sensors. Unfortunately yet much less...

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SMS is dead, long live SMS

Anders Borg — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:51:00 +0000

Nowadays everyone talks about mobile TV, Ajax, mobile 2.0 etc, but when looking at what people are actually using and understand, SMS stands out like a pink elephant in an ant farm (you have to be a...

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Nokia Acquires Enpocket

Anders Borg — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:46:00 +0000

Not known to the broader public, but Enpocket is one of the bigger suppliers of SMS-based mobile marketing offerings, and Nokia acquiring them seems like a very good fit as Nokia expands beyond...

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NetBeans 6.0 Beta is now available for download

Anders Borg — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:02:00 +0000

As previously reported about the Preview, there are a lot of improvements in 6.0. The preview wasn't too reliable, but hopefully the Beta can be used for production programming. Completely new is...

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Silence of the blog

Anders Borg — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:09:00 +0000

I'll be too busy with other things until the end of the month, so I've decided to not post any blog entries until then. See you in September.

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Mobile pop-up ads: Right target, wrong weapon

Anders Borg — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:07:00 +0000

As we are now more or less free from pop-up ads on PCs they instead move to mobile phones, if the Internet advertizing heavy-weights and others get what they want. 'Pop-up ads: Coming to a mobile...

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Web 2.0 in the enterprise

Anders Borg — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:48:00 +0000

'IT Execs Seek New Ways to Justify Web 2.0' mentions especially wiki as a useful tool for internal information exchange at enterprises, and I'm sure it is. While I worked for Axis Communications I...

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MIDlet certification is not for the faint of heart and strapped on cash

Anders Borg — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:50:00 +0000

'How MIDlet Signing Is Killing J2ME' is not a very certification friendly note, but admittedly it's true. Oddly the certification requirements for Symbian applications are not at all as hard, even...

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LiMo gets more endorsers

Anders Borg — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:41:00 +0000

Aplix, Celunite, LG Electronics, McAfee, Wind River, ARM, Broadcom, Ericsson, Innopath Software, KTF Co., MontaVista and NXP have now joined as well, according to Mobile Linux group gets wider...

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LBS: Mobile phones combine location and always on line

Anders Borg — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:30:00 +0000

'TeleNav Adds Social Networking Features and Business Reviews to Mobile GPS Navigation Service' is not all new, but certainly still relevant. TeleNav is fundamentally a navigation application...

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