Communications Features

After more than a year of intensive development the SIP Communicator project team is proud to announce a very first alpha1 release which is now available for download. The release offers support for instant messaging and presence for the Jabber, MSN and ICQ protocols, as well as support for 1 to 1 phone calls with SIP. The application is available in packages for Windows, Linux (Fedora, Debian and others), and Mac OS X.

Java 4 IPhone

After successfull jailbreak of the IPhone/IPhone 3G with firmware 2.0 it is possible to install Cydia INstaller. And what is more exciting, there are many applications there, including Java. Related articles: Tutorial: install Java on the IPhone Tutorial: compile and run Java application on the IPhone screenshots are from iphoneapps.ru

Java 4 IPhone

The development sources for xpwn 0.3, the firmware 2.0 version of our cross-platform jailbreaking library/command-line utility have been pushed onto github. DevTeam tested it on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista for both the iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G thus far, but since it uses the same FirmwareBundles files as PwnageTool, and we know those [...]

Java 4 IPhone

Portelligent and Semiconductor Insights published a document describing interals of IPhone 3G. Techonline described the details. (Previous IPhone 3G internals photos can be viewed here) Commuunications (3G/GSM) are on Infineon chips. One for GSM/GPRS/EDGE, another for WCDMA/HSDPA (3G). GPS module is not SiRF as we all thought. Apple uses PMB 2525 Hammerhead II. The Hammerhead II [...]

Java 4 IPhone

How the new IPhone 3G passes stress tests? Put it in your pocket, scratch it with a key, drop it into your soup, wash it with a soap, drop it several times and cross it with a motorcycle. Don’t want to do it? PCWorld did that, take a look:

Java 4 IPhone

IPhone and IPhone3G do not support A2DP technology. Now they do “A2DP is designed to transfer a uni-directional 2-channel stereo audio stream, like music from an MP3 player, to a headset or car radio.” - Wikipedia. This device will work on iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPod nano, iPod Color and iPod Mini. The price is $62 at brano. Specifications: [...]

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It will be opened in Peking on the 19th of July. All personnel will speak both Enlish and Chineese, and it will be possible to get small consultations in other languages, for example in German. via DeepApple

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There is not much defference between Safari 1.1.4 and 2.0. But Under the hood, MobileSafari 2.0’s performance is hugely improved over 1.1.4. Everything related to web surfing feels faster, web pages consistently load faster on 2.0, both via Wi-Fi and EDGE. This has nothing to do with the new iPhone 3G hardware — this is [...]

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Cupertine California—July 21, 2008—Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 third quarter ended June 28, 2008. Apple shipped 2,496,000 Macintosh computers during the quarter, representing 41% unit growth and 43% revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 11,011,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 12% unit growth and 7% revenue growth over the [...]

Java 4 IPhone

The objective of the phoneME project is to further expand the usage of Java™ Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME platform) technology in the mobile handset market. The goal in making these technologies available [...]

Java 4 IPhone

Apple’s added the “Books” category to the AppStore, and has moved the e-books released by AppEngines and others there. Most of them cost $0.99. There are 115 books avaliable.

Java 4 IPhone

Pinchmedia recently announced new report regarding IPhone applications (take a look at the previous one here). They counted free and paid applications in each category. Guess what the results are: News and social networking are disproportionately free, since it’s difficult to charge for content that’s freely available elsewhere and social networks grow in value with the [...]

Java 4 IPhone

This is a tutorial, that shows step by step how to use installed Java on the IPhone. Just in case you do not have Java installed on your IPhone there is a tutorial how to do it. What we need is a working jailbraked IPhone with Java Installed. I used latest firmware 1.1.4, unlocked, jailbreaked and [...]

Java 4 IPhone

These two libraries that are needed for Java on IPhone were updated recently. Downloads are avaliable through Cydia Installer. Jocstrap is a bridge between Java and Objective-C. UICaboodle is a JocStrap extenstion for the IPhone. Both are needed to write Java applications for IPhone.

Java 4 IPhone

JavaOne is one of the most interesting events in IT industry. We are expecting a lot of talks about Java and other technologies. One IPhone+Java - related talk was already mentioned at Java4IPhone.com (link). There are couple more of them. How to Port phoneME™ Advanced Software to Google Android, iPhone, OpenMoko, LiMO, and More Hinkmond Wong [...]

Java 4 IPhone

Eric Klein, vice president of Sun Microsystems, Java Marketing anounced that Sun will be developing a Java VM for the Apple’s IPhone. This JVM will be based on Java Micro Edition and will allow IPhone to launch thousands of existing and new Java applications. “Once our JVM is on the phone, we anticipate that a [...]

Java 4 IPhone

This is a tutorial, that shows step by step how to install Java on the IPhone. What we need is a working unlocked and jailbraked IPhone with Installer. I used latest firmware 1.1.4, unlocked, jailbreaked and customized by winpwn. First of all I’d like to say we all want to use legal IPhones and operators. So everything [...]

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Felipe Andrade - Mobile Developer

Don't panic, it's a natural evolution of the Flash Platform on Mobile. Adobe strategy is to enable Flash Player 10.X in all new devices, and use the powerful Actionscript 3 language to develop content for mobile. Older phones will continue to run Flash Lite and you will be able to target them. Follow Mark Doherty best [...]

Interoperability Happens - Java/J2EE

Those of you who've seen me speak on Java 7 at various conferences have heard me lament (in a small way) the fact that Sun decided last year (Dec 2008) to forgo the idea of including closures in the Java language. Imagine my surprise, then, to check my Twitter feed and discover that, to everyone's surprise, closures are back in as a consideration for the Java7 release.

Several thoughts come to mind:

• "WTF?!?!? This is a community effort?" Originally, when Sun created the Java Community Process, the tradeoff for a committee-based development process was against the open and fair inclusion of ideas from outside of Sun. But with the Java7 release still lacking a JSR (as of a few weeks ago, anyway; I haven't checked today to see if it was opened), and both the Modules facility and language extensions deferred to "Projects" (not JSRs), it seems Sun is now abandoning the JCP in favor of a Sun-dominant process that is certainly solicitous of the community at large, but not constrained or defined by it. And for the life of me, I can't tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing. It's good in that now we don't have to garner a critical mass of community momentum to get something included into the platform or language, but it's bad in that Sun has historically been the bigger drag on innovation there, not the community.
• "Can we please stop calling them closures?" This is a nit, but technically what we're talking about adding here are either lambda expressions or anonymous methods, depending on whose glossary you're using when you're talking. A true closure is one that will compute all referenced variables from the enclosing scope and automatically include them in the generated code, which (so far as I can tell) none of the Java anonymous method or lambda expression proposals currently include. But it's a nit, so I'll say it this once and then drop it.
• "Will Groovy, Scala, Clojure and all other JVM languages please report to the refactoring room?" People look at me quizzically when I say I'd like to see Java have closures in the language, because in general my take on language features in Java is that the Java language is more or less dead, and I could care less what happens to it; I'd vastly prefer to code in Groovy or Scala or Clojure or JRuby before writing something in Java. My rationale for wanting closures in Java, however, is this: by defining a common implementation for closures in Java, all of the above languages can refactor their implementations of anonymous methods/lambda expressions/etc into something that uses Java's closure implementation, and that'll make calling Groovy anonymous methods from Scala much much easier.
• "Why there, now?" Devoxx is apparently turning into JavaOne Winter, because Sun's been making a lot of pretty big announcements at that show, including last year's "no closures, no built-in XML support, ..." announcement about Java7, and now this year's "well, we lied, we're thinking about closures again". Fortunately I think the Devoxx folks have much better skills at keeping their conference relevant to the Java community than JavaOne's organizers did. And I say that despite the fact (or perhaps because of the fact) that I didn't speak there this year. ;-)
• "When is this all supposed to ship again?" Originally, my understanding was that JDK7 was slated to ship in the early part of 2010, but now rumor has it slipping to this time next year (2010). That is a huge postponement, and gives Microsoft a bit of an edge, since Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 are (again, according to rumor) supposed to ship somewhere around the end of 1Q2010. If Sun/Oracle keeps this up, we could very well be seeing a 2-.NET-releases-to-1-Java-release pattern, and that's disturbing in its own right. (Anybody else remember the days when Sun withdrew Java from ECMA, ISO and ANSI standardization consideration because they wanted to "innovate on the platform faster"?)
• "We really have no clue what we're talking about." Aside from rumors and hearsay (including the one that says that Mark Reinhold, who made the announcement, made up the syntax on the flight from the US to Belgium), we really don't have much by way of Sun-blessed official discussions of what this will look like or act like, at least none so far as I've been able to find, so any sort of supposition on whether it will be good or suck like an inverted hurricane is a tad premature. Trust me, I want to see where this goes, too, so I'll be keeping an eye out.

In the meantime, if you want to keep on top of the Java space, maybe it's time to consider a trip to Antwerp this time next year, since, if the new ship date rumors are to be believed,  it looks like Sun (once again) is planning to use Devoxx as the platform from which to make a large announcement, this time the release Java7 itself.

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