Next-Generation Nokia Cell Phone Could Sport a Joystick

Is it just fluff or real project? Let's wait and see what will happen, but it seems to be great news for mobile gamers.

Next-Generation Nokia Cell Phone Could Sport a Joystick

ClickOnline

ClickOnline rocks!

Well, I am used to watch BBC and it's one of the main reasons I have contracted a full channel plan from our local TV operator. I like to read articles on http://news.bbc.co.uk/ as you may have noticed :). It helps me keep informed and also improves and keeps my English skills in good shape.

One of my favorite programs is ClickOnline, it's all about gadgets, new technologies and consumer stuff, I try to watch it whenever I can.

This week they talked about the so called "Web 2.0" including mobile phones and all, really cool!

Mobile networks powered by wind

Yes, I agree. Very cool initiative and technology indeed but please wake me up when producing beer with a similar solution, ok?

Ha, ha, ha, just kidding a little :)

Mobile networks powered by wind

Nokia 6131 NFC released!

Comments are not needed, I just can say: the Nokia 6131 NFC device implements JSR-257 out-of-the-box and it's a cool Series 40 3rd Edition FP 1 device.

Let's see if I can manage to get one for testing ;)

Mobiles still ringing in New Year

Oh my God, thanks a lot for letting me read this article.

I am so tired that during insane nights of work this week I thought of burning all my mobiles and going to live as a fisherman in Porto de Galinhas or the like, whatever, I don't know...

Well, I finished the application today (I hope so :) and now it's almost Christmas, but this article is an eye drop to my tired eyes. Great :)

The 12-key numeric keypad

Interesting article by ARCchart - Keypad makes way for control surfaces.

Sorry for this short post but I've read it quickly and maybe I will do so once again tomorrow (oops, today). I am swamped this week working too hard in a mobile application project - MTrack, a logistics application...

I blogged a lot last November but now I am really busy, Christmas is getting closer and I need to finish that baby...so let me rest a little now...

Microsoft Vista released for sale

Be ready, you will need new hardware to enjoy its full capabilities. So, I am now asking myself, how is Microsoft going to have it deployed in volumes? There's more to it than I can imagine...

Anyway, you will ask me: What the f...does it have to do with mobile stuff?

Well, I've heard that Windows Mobile 6 (a.k.a Crossbow) will have some features inherited from Vista, is it true??? Hope it will require fewer resources, though :)

Microsoft Vista released for sale

YouTube goes mobile

As I am a fan of YouTube and also a mobile software application developer, I just wanted to have it registered here.

YouTube moves to the small screen

The so-called 21st century network (21CN) - have you heard about it?

It's news for me as well, so let me just include a text excerpt...

"The so-called 21st century network (21CN) is being built in the UK using Internet Protocol technology. The massive upgrade, the first of its kind, will cost British Telecom £10bn and take until 2010 to complete."

Interested? Go read the article - First call on new phone network.

OFF-TOPIC - Smart homes a reality in South Korea (includes OSGi, though)

Home automation will grow in the coming years, so this article tells the status of it in South Korea.
I have some really cool ideas involving home automation and OSGi, so I think I need to start a new company, if you're a VC investor please contact me, ha, ha, ha. Just kidding (not sure in fact) but...

I know that OSGi (another technology for the future) is involved and Philips has some interesting implementations like the iPronto (not sure if still being marketed, though) product line. Worth checking anyway!

Smart homes a reality in South Korea

Mobiles hope to be 'smart wallet'

NFC again, so if you're interested go there and read the article. Just to mention some "smal" players involved, they are: Bouygues Telecom, China Mobile, Cingular Wireless, KPN, Mobilkom Austria, Orange, SFR, SK Telecom, Telefonica Móviles España, Telenor, TeliaSonera, TIM, Vodafone and 3. Do you need more? ;)

Mobiles hope to be 'smart wallet'

Monday's release of Java ME, known as Project Mobile and Embedded

Now it is official, Java ME is Open-Source!

Is it an evolution or will it mess everything and destroy the platform? Opinions may vary and abound...

Duke Open-sourced

Duke is now free as well, so visit his home :)

"On Nov. 13th 2006, Sun announced that Duke would become Free Graphics, just as the implementations of Java ME and SE became Free Software."

https://duke.dev.java.net/

More about Open-Source Java

It's a hype, even people who do not know exactly what Java is are talking about it.

Sun 'releases' Java to the world

The most interesting thing is that when I started developing Java applications one of my previous employers tried to persuade me that Java would not succeed, it would die as it seemed to be just that fancy Applets running within a web browser (the security-holed Internet Explorer). A Microsoft Solution Provider at that time with tons of VB coders, ones that use Visual Studio to drag and drop a component and think they are real software developers...poor guys.

Ha, ha, ha, it sounds like joke for me nowadays, I replied: "there are a dozen of companies using it so I will invest too". One of the smartert choices I've made in my career so far.

And now in 2006 I am one of the JUG Leaders (and founder) of MGJUG and believe me, I have received a message from one guy who works for that same company, and now they are using JEE there.

So let me summarize: Java will dominate the world as of today and all other technologies (including RoR, Microsoft .NotYET and C#, it's pronounced Sharope in Brazilian Portuguese) will die.

Luckily, I have a lot of Java certifications and I am working with the three Java platforms for a long time now, so I will not be affected by this invasion. Actually, the opposite :)

So, if you're lucky like me you can sleep in peace and wake up in the morning with your Java phone ringing around...mine with loots of cool JME apps on it.

So stay tuned the next time and think out of the box my dear ;)

Gee, I don't want to be so mean :)

LBS in Brazil

A cool article by Estadão, a major online newspaper in Brazil. Unfortunately it is in Brazilian Portuguese but worth posting here anyway...

Celular vira auxiliar digital do automóvel

Biometric systems - welcome to the future!

Biometric systems will become pervasive in the next 5 to 10 years I guessed, then I came across an interesting article by BBC News.

Worth checking if you don't know what those systems are, there's a very cool Guide to Biometric Technology on it. Let's see how that all will interplay with mobile devices, I can imagine some use cases and I must admit that I have expectations considering that...

Train firm to issue phone tickets

Yes, this is all about NFC - Near Field Communication.

The Helsinki, Finland scheme in this article is very interesting as now we Java ME developers have JSR-257 Final Release. So it's time to start looking at it, I can see a lot of killer solutions steeming from NFC. Great ;)

More on that soon.

Heavy mobile use 'damages sperm'

Gee!

Heavy mobile use 'damages sperm'

I have just a little daughter but I do plan to have more kids, so I think I need to discard all my 5 mobiles as of today...or maybe I can use a cool shielding solution, let's see...I will find a good solution, maybe I can use a SAR shield under my pants, is it going to work out?

And I thought it was all about brain damage...but the problem seems to be more complicated (deeper) than I had anticipated, ha, ha, ha :)

FireFox 2 is out!

FireFox is so amazing that even my wife is now using it, and she's not a techie! I cannot imagine working without FireFox as it helps me perform a lot of tasks: find a lot of resources I use during my daily activities as a software developer, use it for debugging web pages, RSS and a lot of other cool features I cannot mention in a single blog post, a real tool and not just another web browser.

So, if you're not using it yet, read the articles below and give it a try ;)

Firefox browser for web 2.0 age

What's New in Firefox 2

The Game On exhibition at the Science Museum in London

That exhibition is simply amazing, it makes me feel as playing my old Odyssey console back in the 80's, when I started getting interested in electronics and then computing. Then I bought an Atari 2600, a Sinclair Spectrum afterwards and started programming some simple games using BASIC and only 48KB of memory. Good times :)

Unfortunately I live in Brazil and I cannot afford to go there just to visit Game On, just nostalgia then...

From BBC's In Pictures section:

"The Game On exhibition at the Science Museum in London brings together more than 120 different videogames, spanning the entire history of gaming – from the first videogame, SpaceWar in 1962, to the Xbox 360.

"This is about the history and culture and development of computer gaming," said the exhibition's co-ordinator Gaetan Lee.

Visitors can play on classic arcade games such as Space Invaders, Donkey Kong and Centipede and chart the growth of games over the last 40 years."

Check it out:

In pictures: Game On at the Science Museum