Articles Archive for November 2007
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Mobile media company Player X announced that it has opened up an Australian office in Sydney.
The
company has also appointed an unnamed Australian mobile industry
veteran to run the new office which will be responsible for running
Player X’s publishing and distribution business in Australia and New
Zealand as well as liaising with the Chinese office.
"This year
has seen Player X open up in South America and India, so opening in
Sydney was a natural progression," said CEO Tony Pearce.
"We are
seeing great numbers in Australia and New Zealand so it kicks off what
should be a record-breaking 2008 for the company," said Tony Pearce,
Player X CEO.
Player
X raised USD 10 million second round funding in January, and has since
been recognised as the fourth fastest-growing, VC-backed company in the
UK.
The company now has offices in Sao Paolo, Orlando, Hamburg, and Lyon as well as the Beijing and Pune facilities.
Technical News »
Seems you can run Palm OS Garnet VM on your Nokia N-series N770, N800, or N810 tablet.
"Access just released a beta copy of their Garnet Virtual Machine
software. Yes, Snappermail, DateBk5, Pocket Tunes, whatever — all
30,000+ Garnet applications are supported. Free to download now and free when it hits production status at the end of the year."
(via Engaget)
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There’s a new site for free applications for Windows Mobile devices. There aren’t that many applications and games there yet, but it might already have something you want. Go ahead, check it out: smartphone-freeware.org
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Technology News World published a piece by Tricia Duryee about Google’s Android. By the article Android is not getting a realy warm welcome yet by development companies, and will probably appeal more for smaller startups at the moment:
"The companies said there are still a lot of
questions regarding the platform, and it’s premature to drop projects
already in the works that are expected to make money.Not even the US$10 million in prize money Google is offering for
developers who build the best applications for Android was enough
incentive, they said."
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Sony Ericsson published the following on their Java Tips sction:
The
Messaging, Read User Data and Write User Data permission settings for
Java ME applications running on Sony Ericsson mobile phones were
changed in Java Platform 7 (JP-7). To ensure access to these changed
permission settings, please make sure that your JP-7 phone is running
the most recent firmware.
The grid below shows the changes associated with JP-7:
| Messaging | Read User Data | Write User Data | |
| Untrusted | No Always ask |
No Always ask Ask once* Never ask* |
No Always ask Ask once* Never ask* |
| Trusted third-party | No Always ask Ask once* Never ask* |
No Always ask Ask once Never ask |
No Always ask Ask once Never ask |
*New settings from the latest Java Platform 7 firmware
Programming »
In this article I will give you some helpful tips on how to decrease your JAR files, and will also introduce you to a tool we developed and use at OrangePixel: PNGSplitter. The magical tool that will strip kilobytes of your jar files!
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