Wireless Recap, August 2004

Wireless highlights from my August blog entries:

• Nokia and Vodafone announced critical next generation J2ME tech, the Mobile Service Architecture, including two JSRs in the JCP to specify MSA for both CLDC and CDC based J2ME devices
• I delivered a presentation on “J2ME at Five” to the inaugural meeting of the Bay Area Mobility Forum (click to access abstract and slides)
• Nokia Developer’s Suite 2.2 for J2ME was released (adds support for Eclipse and open source Fedora Linux, among other things)
• Forum Nokia published information on Series 60 Platform 2nd Edition Feature Pack 1, in other words the latest release of Series 60 available in phones today such as my Nokia 7610
• Asian trends to watch: 3GNewsroom.com published some interesting worldwide CDMA adoption statistics, followed a short while later by a Business Times article on Nokia overtaking Motorola in China and an interesting Nikkei Electronics Asia article on Chinese and South Korean adoption of W-CDMA, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO, and TD-SCDMA
• I delivered a “Tips and Techniques for Advanced Wireless Java Programming” webcast as part of the Nokia Developer Learning Series (click here to access the abstract and a PDF copy of the slides)
• Russ Beattie hacked together mOlympics, a mobile RSS news aggregator for all things related to the Athens 2004 Olympics (note that mOlympics now resolves to mGuru; what gives, Russ?)
• Filipinos protested a proposed ‘texting’ tax meant to help relieve the national deficit (that’s a lot of twitching thumbs!)
• AT&T Wireless detailed their new UMTS service (click here to access the archived webcast)

Previous 2004 wireless recaps are available for: March | April-June | July