Another King.com news. Just few days ago the online skill games company announced the release of 20 JavaME games for feature phones. Among the titles that have been released are such popular games as Midas Miner, GoGo21, Jungle Bubble and Word Battle — all of which are free to play, and King.com will even deposit…
EXIT festival gets a mobile app!
EXIT Festival is taking place in my city (Novi Sad, Serbia). During the last few years it was selected as the single best summer music festival in Europe, according to MTV Europe and some British newspapers. 20+ stages, hundreds of concerts, and a great venue (old fortress) certainly helped. That said, I’m proud to announce…
Nokia rewrote Java J2ME for S60, finding a person who cares results in failure
J2ME is the most highly deployed application platform that exists today. Any mobile phone with a color screen and two soft keys, even the one that has been living in that back of your desk drawer since Clinton’s second term, probably has support for J2ME applications. Some of the best J2ME apps are Google Maps,…
GyPSii launches Java app for the Chinese market
Popular location-based mobile social network GyPSii has released a Java ME-based client, which will work on a majority of feature phones. Aimed primarily at the Chinese market, the application is available in both English and Chinese languages. Java ME is an ideal solution for majority of users and according to the company, this way around…
Orkut gets a Java ME mobile app
Just when we though Orkut is pretty much dead, Google decided to release a dedicated mobile app for accessing the social network. The Java ME-based client will work on most feature phones, allowing users to keep up with their Orkut buddies while on the go. Using the Orkut mobile app, users can: Perform “basic Orkut…
Survey Sez: LBS Developers Not Interested in WebOS, Symbian
According to recent research by Skyhook Wireless (the guys who work on Wi-Fi positioning systems), only 8% of location-based service developers will jump to the Palm Pre operating system, WebOS. The survey was conducted over 100 developers spread across six platforms: Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android, BlackBerry, Java and iPhone. Here are the main findings from…
Google Voice optimized for mobile – Google Voice functionality on your cellphone
If you’re like many of us working types, you probably have at least two different phone numbers and voicemail inboxes to deal with. Some of you might even have two mobile phones on two distinct wireless accounts. So, to help the average Joe deal juggle all their phone lines, Google is looking to turn its…
iHeart Radio brings Clear Channel radio to BlackBerry
Here’s a quick little reminder for BlackBerry users with a heart-on for Clear Channel radio stations around the US. Clear Channel has launched iHeart Radio for BlackBerry devices, following the iHeartRadio iPhone application’s success in boosting Clear Channel’s listener-ship. Like the iPhone app, the iHeartRadio BlackBerry application streams radio broadcasts from 150 of Clear Channel’s…
Watch Out For Android on the Mobile Web Front
I was just looking over a post from Will the other day, in which he reported the clear dominance of the iPhone when it comes to mobile browsing/web traffic. You can’t deny that at all, the numbers are clear-cut… In fact, from last months’ AdMob report, the iPhone accounts for 51% of all US smartphone…
iPhone blows away competition with 66% of all mobile web traffic!
When it comes to using the mobile web, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone that denies the iPhone’s multi-touch web browsing experience as anything less than top-notch. The mobile world scurried to bring their own touchscreen competitors to market when the iPhone blew up the scene with its inaugural launch in 2007, but no other…