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Notes from 2009-11-10

Healthy Thanksgiving recipes http://bit.ly/4nGUfx via @activenetwork # Solve posture problems http://bit.ly/2r1Pk4 # I'll be rooting for my Sooners in Norman this weekend, Boomer! http://bit.ly/3V5VDT # Route 66 Marathon guide http://bit.ly/1CCYQ # Hunters: Smith & Wesson 460V review http://bit.ly/17vzbp # Apple passes Nokia as world's most profitable handset vendor http://om.bit.ly/MbOvW via @om #

Java ME Archive

Purpose: Archive information on developing applications for Java Platform, Micro Edition (formerly J2ME) powered devices. Java ME Application and Tool Repositories Repository Brief description midlet.org Nice OTA MIDlet site including several hundred free Midlets broken out into categories and separable by “device filters” and a search interface Nokia Software Market Buy applications for Nokia devices [...]

Matsuri of the Mobilists 61

The 61st installment of the Carnival is out. Jan Kuczynski has posted number 61 on Wireless World Japan, complete with a Matsuri theme. My “Two horse race, soon to be three” post on the mobile handset market made the cut. Thanks Jan!

Nokia and Motorola: Two horse race, soon to be three?

Last July I wondered in writing about Q2 2006 NOK and MOT numbers: Is mobile handset design and marketing now a two horse race? As reported in this Chicago Tribune story on Q4 2006 results, the answer appears to be a big “Yes”. According to the Strategy Analytics numbers quoted by the Tribune: Nokia increased [...]

iPhone week one

There have been a lot of so-so and a few really great articles on iPhone in the week since it was launched. What follows are my favorite blog posts, articles, and videos covering iPhone in week one. David Pogue published an early first pass in his “Some Hands-On Time With the iPhone” after spending about [...]

Nokia versus Motorola, by the numbers

Nokia Q2 numbers are out. In a nutshell: NOK shipped 78.4 million phones in Q2 2006 compared to 60.8 million units in Q2 2005 Smart phone (Nokia Multimedia unit) revenues rose 37% to 1.89 billion euros ($2.36 billion) Average selling price declined to 102 euros ($127) from 105 euros, due to large volumes of cheap [...]

Cutting the wire at college

Wired News has posted an article on the growing number of colleges replacing student landlines with mobile phones. The article notes: With nine out of 10 college students carrying cell phones — and many of them using traditional landline phones rarely or not at all — schools are seeking ways to maintain a line of communication while [...]

First J2ME Trojan targets mass market handsets

Someone’s finally written the first known J2ME malware. Read up on the details (including how to avoid infection or remove Redbrowser.A from an already infected mobile) from Symantec and McAfee. I guess it was inevitable, but given the huge number of deployed devices as potential targets it’s amazing that it’s taken close to seven years [...]

'See New' global cellcam contest

PC Magazine and others have picked up Nokia’s “Top photographers spearhead Nokia Nseries See New Competition” press release. The gist: You can submit up to five cellcam pics that you’ve taken using a megapixel+ camera phone to the contest. Judges include five widely known photographers who will help pick the best snaps of the lot. [...]

Nokia and Motorola 2MPix cellcam music machines

Everybody’s been blogging about the Palm+Microsoft lovefest so I thought I’d cover two other new devices that might be important and more widely used in the long run. Both Motorola and Nokia announced 2 megapixel cellcams yesterday. They both support memory cards and various digital audio formats, promising to be good cellpods as well as [...]