Excellent FRS/GMRS two-way radio 101 from REI, my hiking/skiing/outdoors outfitter of choice.
Don’t these people have anything better to do? See: Virus Writers Use Internet Worms for War of Words.
Learn more about the new Java Verified program for J2ME applications from Rima Patel’s “Achieving WORA for Mobile Applications on Handsets” java.net blog.
The UN/ITU duking it out with ICANN? OK, this story’s got quite a bit of spin in it, but it’s worth a read anyway: “Tug-Of-War for Control of Net Set for Rome Summit“.
Interested in Linux powered cell phones? Read LinuxDevices.com ‘s coverage of the new Motorola A768 to learn more about Moto’s plans.
Deviceforge.com has published an Intel whitepaper introducing Ultra Wideband (UWB) wireless. Worth a read especially if you’re unfamiliar with UWB and its possibilities.
Take the Sun Certified Mobile Application Developer exam for free on/before 7 March 2004.
WebServices.org has summarized several of Sun’s 3GSM announcements. J2ME related technologies highlighted in the announcements include:
- Java Technology for Smartphones HotSpot Implementation (based upon the CLDC HI), offering up to six times the speed of the previous CLDC reference implementation while supporting the JTWI and J2ME WSA specifications
- WS-I compliant J2ME WSA supporting XML processing and XML-RPC via JSR 172
Sun also recently announced that there are now more than 250 million J2ME enabled mobile phones from 31 manufacturers deployed in over 75 carrier networks in the world today.
Note: Smartphones is used here in the generic sense of the word (high end, multiply capable cell phone devices) rather than any particular mobile phone maker’s OS (don’t you wish that particular vendor hadn’t decided to abscond with the generic term to refer to their own proprietary OS?). Also, for more from 3GSM, see also my related blog entry on Intel’s and Nokia’s 3GSM news.
News from the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes on Intel ‘s mobile phone designs and deals. It’s interesting to compare this with Nokia’s 3GSM messaging.
It’s been a good long while since I’ve been downhill skiing, at least five years if I’ve counted right. I’m not sure how it came to pass that it’s been that long, other than I’ve been very busy evangelizing J2ME. Anyway I’ve been getting the skiing “itch” of late and I wanted to try out some non-ski gear on the slopes, so I convinced mi esposa that the time was right and we headed up to Lake Tahoe last weekend.
We took the cable car to High Camp at Squaw Valley and the gondola up to the Deck at Heavenly, but when it came time to hit the slopes, I went with my favorite, Alpine Meadows.
Why Alpine? Great snow, nice views of the lake (from both the front and the back sides, as long as you get up high enough), $39 full day lift tickets (cheaper than many Tahoe resorts’ half day tickets), and best of all, all the skiing and boarding you want without the distractions of most of the other resorts. If all of that weren’t enough, check out how much mountain you get without the overcrowding you see in so many other places:
Alpine rocks!
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