Epoc and Symbian support J2ME. The major weakness in the plan, acknowledged by both elata and Sun, is the current lack of decent Java programmers on the market. When .Net applications are finally available, Microsoft claims they will be cheap to...
Symbian chief executive Colly Myers has shocked the consortium by announcing his resignation. No reason was given for his departure from Symbian, which makes operating systems for handhelds and other mobile devices.
McNealy said he was surprised the market doesn't share his fury at Microsoft over the security flaws that have been exploited by hosts of malicious software. But Big Blue isn't entirely without open-source credentials: in addition to employing...
That goes for phones - obvious examples might include inner circuitry, keypads or user interfaces - but also less glamorous things such as facilities around the world. I will get on to why this is important - and finish with a challenge to any...
Linux - freely available and collectively developed by a numerous programmers across the world - has surpassed Microsoft operating systems in phones and is on track to surpass Symbian in 2010, Motorola said.
Greenphone will be offered as part of a complete software development kit (SDK) and includes Trolltech's Qtopia Phone Edition. Linux is picking up more support in the mobile industry as a challenger to established players such as Microsoft and...