I have been taking a look at the latest Widget support in the S60 5th SDK. In particular, the new support for platform services such as location, calendar, contacts, messaging, logging, media and systeminfo.
Although the documentation (also available online) doesn’t mention the contacts and calendar APIs, they are in fact present. It’s possible to […]

Last night’s MoMo London was very interesting. It was billed as…
"With the growing interest in Ajax and Widgets, and initiatives like BONDI, the choice of development platform has never been greater. How do these technologies play against or with more traditional approaches like installable J2ME and Native Apps."
Instead of the usual presentation format, the evening […]

There are a lot of news articles currently on Yahoo’s latest release of Blueprint. The latest version allows standalone Java, Windows Mobile and Symbian applications to be built.
Marco Boerries, executive VP of Yahoo Connected Life said…
"Now with one click, you can write once and have mobile services run across a critical mass of devices and […]

Carlo Longino from MobHappy and Caroline Lewko from the Wireless Industry Partnership have created a new mobile resource called the WIP Wiki. It’s aimed at helping developers find the tools, resources and partners they need to move ahead with their work.
 
The wiki includes company listings, developer programs from handset and platform suppliers/operators and a tips […]

Shai, of LWUIT (Java UI) fame has a post on how people want to access the mobile Internet now and not when browsers have matured.
There is currently lots of talk about widgets, Javascript and web functionality that might rely on functionality deeper in the phone. However, for now, only a small percentage of the […]

The GSMA 3rd Party Access Project aims to simplify access to network operators’ proprietary APIs. At the moment such APIs are either not available, only available to large companies who can negotiate access or where available are different for each operator.
The goal of the GSMA Access API project is for operators to present a common, […]

Are you a web developer trying to get into mobile development? Are you concerned about Java ME fragmentation and the need to create and distribute multiple versions of your Java application?
Cascada Mobile has just launched a beta of their Breeze mobile application development and distribution platform. Breeze takes applications that are written in HTML, JavaScript […]