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Read all about Nokia’s new R&D facility in India and two new CDMA handsets introduced in Asia-Pacific markets.

Is the sky falling on Nokia? Motley Fool Seth Jayson thinks not, and he has the numbers to back it up.

Watch for more from Nokia in their Friday April 16th quarterly earnings call. Access a live webcast of the call from Nokia’s Investor web site.

Peter Rogers’ brain dump of J2ME and related developer issues for the Nokia 6230 (part of a 6230 thread on the kvm-interest list) is worth a read for anyone interested in J2ME MIDP 2.0 development on Developer Platform 2.0 for Series 40 devices (the 6230 is the reference device).

I blogged about the Nokia 6255 cellcam a couple of weeks ago.

Now everyone’s joining in:

• Russ likes it
• The Register doesn’t
• Engadget seems unsure, but leaning towards the Bill/Russ camp

Not sure whether to love it or hate it? Access the details from Forum Nokia and more pictures via MobileBurn’s review, then tell me what you think.

It’s nice to have TheFeature and Reiter’s Camera Phone Report agree with me that cellcams are displacing dedicated digicams. What’s even nicer is the excerpt they’ve pulled from BusinessWeek:

Sony Ericsson president Katsumi Ihara says that Sony has ceded the low-end camera market to mobile phones.

OK, so it is a done deal. Look out digicams, here come the cellcams! It’ll be very interesting to see who capitalizes on this in 2004.

I learned about Microsoft’s new Channel 9 from WebTalkGuys Radio and the Scobleizer blog. After reading more about it from CNet News.com, I decided to pay a visit to see what’s up.

A highlight among the riveting threads of recent discussion: “Should one use one or two spaces after a period?“.

Now that we’re buds I just have to ask, is this really what you guys talk about all day long at Microsoft? We’ve gotta work on that…

Fellow Sun employee David Edmondson has launched a nice Planet based aggregator of Sun employee blogs, Planet Sun.

You can subscribe to one RSS 1.0 or RSS 2.0 feed to monitor and interact with all of the aggregated bloggers, including the likes of Tim Bray, Norm Walsh, and James Gosling. Particularly useful for us Sun employees making sure that Sun is living the RSS dream.

The skinny from CBS Marketwatch: “Nokia falls almost 19 percent on sales warning“.

Interesting facts, and speculation, about Nokia’s moves outside the home country of Finland: Nokia plans up to 300 staff at New York site.

Jonathan Schwartz’s take on the Big News.

On the potential effects on open source and Linux, Schwartz says:

I’ve seen some writers suggest that this is anti-Linux. To me, this is the single biggest accelerant in assuring the success of the most interoperable alternative to the Microsoft Windows PC, called the Java Desktop System (JDS). And that is all about working with the community to drive Linux and Java.

Revisiting the major wireless developments of March 2004.

Read all about it in my java.net blog.

One would have thought this was an April Fool’s joke if it had broken a day earlier: “Microsoft Makes Peace with Sun“.

The long term implications certainly aren’t clear. Much of what’s been reported will no doubt prove wrong or only partially true. Whatever comes from this, it’s definitely an interesting, if unexpected, development.

Peace for our time? We’ll see.

BillDay.com is now WAP/WML enabled.

I’ve been wanting to provide a stripped down version of my site for mobile phone users for some time. It only makes sense that a wireless guy and J2ME evangelist would have a mobile version of his site, right?

I’ve tinkered with WAP-enabling little bits of my site before, but my blogification of BillDay.com finally gave me the means to do things right. Thanks to my favorite WordPress hack, WP WAP, you can now browse my blog from a WAP phone via: http://billday.com/wp-wap.php

(You can find this link in the future from the Other Formats and Syndication section in the right gutter.)

I’ve included a couple of screenshots of the mobile version of the site to give you a feel for how BillDay.com behaves on a WAPified gadget. When you first connect you’ll see a homepage containing a listing of recent blog entries as shown; select an entry’s title to load and read the entry. If you click on either of the provided screenshots, you’ll see what would happen if you selected the first entry to read.

Want to browse the mobile site yourself but don’t have a WAP phone? Download the Nokia Mobile Browser Simulator or use Gelon.net’s online Wapalizer or your WAP simulator of choice to open the WAP URL above. And if you do try out the site via WAP, please let me know what you think.

BTW, the main site is valid XHTML 1.0, so if your mobile browser supports XHTML, you may not even need to bother with the WAP version.

Not sure how my site made it into Matt’s rarified Notables list, but I’m honored. Thanks for all the great work on Wordpress and for the link, Matt!