But you can’t just be any, run-of-the-mill hacker. In order to score one of the bigger prizes at the annual Pwn2Own 733t hacker competition in Vancouver, Canada, you’re going to have to prove your hacking fortitude by finding security exploits in the Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and iPhone mobile operating systems. With the flood…
Opera Software strikes partnership agreements with Yahoo!, Vodafone
Opera Software just got stronger for two partnership. First they announced a deal with Yahoo! to bring Opera Mini to more mobile phone users around the world. Under the agreement, Yahoo! will distribute Opera’s Java ME browser via Yahoo! Mobile and also as a standalone download from Yahoo!’s mobile web sites. In the other news,…
Sun Microsystems Releases JavaFX Mobile
Sun has just announced a mobile version of its JavaFX platform. The new ‘JavaFX Mobile’ is built on JavaME, and will let developers easily create mobile applications. Plus, this new mobile release will allow developers to port existing apps to mobile platforms. Cool. Also noteworthy is JavaFX Mobile will allow developers to tie into native…
Skydeck announces real-time call, text, voicemail, and contacts tracking
Sure, you could just wait until the end of your billing cycle to track down that all-important phone number that you scored at the club last night. But, if you need instant call-tracking, Skydeck is your answer. Skydeck’s real-time phone call and text message tracking service has just announced a bevy of new features that…
Python Running on a G1… Developers Around the World Give Light Smattering of Applause
Are you a developer that loves Android? Have you taken a liking to Android, but Java isn’t quite your thing? Well, if you should happen to prefer Python over Java, then I’ve got just the thing for you today! Python has been installed on a G1 by one Damon over at damonkohler.com. He managed the…
J2ME-based GCal brings Google Calendar to feature phones
Like Google Calendar but don’t have a smartphone? You may want to try out GCal, a new, free Java ME application, which allow you to manage your Google Calendar appointments from your mobile phone, no matter where you happen to be. Although it’s still in an alpha stage, the app allows users to filter their…
minifring gets add-ons, too!
Fring has announced that their Java ME-based app, minifring, joins its older, more powerful brother for smartphones to include support for add-ons. Among the first fringAdd-ons supported are Facebook, Gmail notifier, Orkut and Yandex.mail notifier. More add-ons will eventually hit the fring Add-ons catalog as developers release them. To get fring Add-ons on your feature…
Emoze Adds Facebook Messaging Support for Symbian Powered Devices
We all know about the Facebook apps readily available for the iPhone and BlackBerry… But what if you’re running another device and simply need that Facebook fix? No need to pout, as today Emoze announced the availability of a new Facebook messaging support for Symbian devices. The new offering will allow you to read, reply…
Paragon launches Java-version of Handy Weather for feature phones
After becoming the single best weather application for Symbian-based smartphones, Paragon Software decided it’s about time to reach wider audience, hence they launched their Handy Weather app for Java-enabled feature phones. Here are some of the reasons/features why people buy Handy Weather, despite the fact they can get free weather forecast from a number of…
Gmail mobile app hits 2.0; Available for J2ME and BlackBerry phones
Yesterday Google released a new version of its GMail app for J2ME-enabled and BlackBerry phones. The main goal was to make the application faster and more reliable, hence the code has been rearchitected to push all the processing to the background. In addition, the client-side caching scheme has been improved and “every bottleneck piece of…