Following up on my Blogging on BillDay.com site changes:
I’ve continued merging various parts of my site into my CMS infrastructure and the new common look and feel. Changes I’ve made include:
- Updated my professional bio and resume for my recent job change
- Replaced outdated presentation topics page with a new Presentations blog category including abstracts and a link to slides for each posted presentation
- Posted links to my archived Sun presentations, prior publications, previous presentations, and other things involving me such as webcasts and interviews into my blog for better searchability and future reference
- Highlighted J2ME Archive and Mobile Jobs lists by linking to them from the “Resources” section in right homepage gutter
- Plus some other clean-up and housekeeping sorts of things (renamed “Blog Topics” section to “Topics” in homepage, removed outdated Professional page after merging various bits as noted above, etc.)
This completes the cutover to the new CMS infrastructure. Future site work will focus on content improvements such as J2ME Archive updates, context specific ads for related services, etc.
Reuters/Yahoo reports on INEEL’s new Cyber Security center in “On Fed Payroll, Hackers Seek to Save America“.
Following up on my other posts on Linux smartphones:
LinuxDevices.com provides an interesting portrait of a Linux smartphone, the E28 e2800+.
Read all about it from Reuters/USA Today: “Global handset sales reached record in Q2“.
Planning to attend CTIA Wireless IT or in the Bay Area anyway October 24th?
Check out the Nokia Enterprise Developer Workshop. Among other things we’ll be covering new Series 60 and Series 80 technologies and handsets such as the 9500 and 9300.
Bonus tip: Register today and you’ll also be eligible for free admission to the CTIA WIT exhibits and keynotes.
Nokia introduced the Series 80 based Nokia 9300 today. Read MobileBurn’s review and check out more photos from the Nokia press site.
The 9300 will support Blackberry email access along with other Series 80 based devices such as the 9500. In fact, one way to look at the 9300 is as a slimmed down 9500 for those with a “pocket space premium” (I definitely find myself in that camp quite often). Two areas trimmed to shrink the 9300’s size: digicam and WiFi support. If one or both of those is critical for your application development, look at the 9500 or other Nokia cellcams such as the 7610 instead.
Developer details: The 9300 is the second Series 80 Developer Platform 2.0 based device announced (the first was the 9500). 9300 supports development using either of the two J2ME stacks as well as C++:
- J2ME CDC/FP/PP and CLDC/MIDP 2.0 and related APIs
- Symbian OS 7.0s
Nokia and Six Apart have announced support for Typepad in Nokia Lifeblog.
Lifeblog’s blogging support will be Atom based. For more information, read Christian Lindholm’s post on Lifeblog and Typepad, learn more about Typepad’s implementation of the Atom API, and watch the Nokia Lifeblog site for more details. I need to dig into the details myself and verify if I’ll be able to Lifeblog to my own Atom enabled site…more to come on that as I get the skinny.
BTW, if you’re interested in Lifeblog you might also want to check out Nokia Album, available now for 7610. Russ wrote a short review last month if you’d like a third party take on it.
Other details: Nokia will make employment offers to approximately two dozen Metrowerks employees who develop and support the technology being purchased. Nokia will also license a number of core Metrowerks technologies.
I recently switched home broadband providers and decided to use the switch as an opportunity to upgrade my home network’s internals, too.
Centerpiece of my faster setup: Netgear’s WGR614 802.11g Wireless Router. This WiFi cable/DSL-ready router gives me 54Mbps speed for 802.11g devices while maintaining compatibility with 11Mbps 802.11b equipment such as the Nokia 9500 Communicator (Nokia’s first WLAN handset; click here for more details), older WiFi PC cards, etc.
Router specs are available from Amazon or the Netgear datasheet.
Notes on setting up the WGR614 via the provided Web administration interface and recommendations for usage:
- Limit the visibility of your network to casual WiFi users by changing your network name (SSID) to something other than the default and turning off SSID broadcast
- Use the MAC address based access control list to limit access to particular devices
- The router includes stateful packet inspection (SPI) and a number of other security capabilities built-in, but you should always assume your network is vulnerable and being sniffed: Use the highest level of encryption supported by your devices (WEP and WPA-PSK are available in the router), and even better still, use VPN (WGR614 supports IPSec and L2TP pass through)
If you’re interested in the WGR614, you can buy one via Amazon.com for $34.84 USD after a $20 mail in rebate. Be sure you get the latest available revision (when I bought mine, the WGR614 was up to v4).
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