A hands-on experience with a new Android-based HTC Magic from SFR. Also, uses of applications Twitroid and Qype
HTC Magic: Day 1
So, this is day 1 with my HTC Magic. It has been on my desk for longer than that, but it required my new SFR account to be activated before to work, and this has only happened today at 15:00 (quite precisely: my Orange phone was still active at 14:55, and my SFR phone was […]
Is there really a need to support unconnected modes?
The fact that we are sometimes unconnected is a strong motivation behind local Web servers like Java Card 3.0. I have sometimes doubted that, claiming that our world is becoming increasingly connected. I am just back from JavaOne, and my major headache during that trip has been connectivity (yes, this was a trip to San […]
Live from J1: The PlaySIM Project
The PlaySIM project is about using a SunSPOT device as a Java Card 3.0-enabled SIM card. It is a collaboration between Sun and Telenor, and as far as I know, it is the first experiment based on Java Card 3.0 performed by a mobile operator. The interest of this project is to combine the expressive […]
Live from J1: Health Care Records in Java Card 3.0
This presentation is the first deployment of a Java Card 3.0 that gets describedd in JavaOne, and possibly the first one ever. This deployment is done in a French département, namely the Versailles area. Because of connectivity issues, this is actually not really live. The specific project is here about making it possible to support […]
Live from J1: Java Card 3.0 on embedded devices
Here is the first presentation about Java Card 3.0, and it highlights something new: how Java Card 3.0 can be used on embedded systems outside of the smart card world. The basic idea is that small embedded systems are faced with a big dilemma: if they use a simple runtime OS, there is no application […]
JC301-6: Your first Java Card 3.0 Application
Note: I have skipped one part in this tutorial, which will be a short introduction to Web technology aimed at smart card developers. It turned out to be more difficult to write than expected. The title needs to be qualified a little more, as our first Java Card 3.0, Connected Edition pogram. The reason is […]
Live from J1: Sun launches a Java app store
Way after Apple, and after Google, Nokia and Vodafone, Sun is launching an app store. Of course, it is an app store with a few twists: First, it is a warehouse. It means that Sun’s objective is to help others build actual stores. So, Sun will take care of the application screening and selection, and […]
Live from J1: Java Card 3.0.1 has arrived
This time, the final release of Java Card 3.0.1 has been delivered to everybody, and it is a full release, with specifications, as well as two development kits. All of this is available on Sun’s Java Card page. I saw a first demo of the latest Netbeeans tool. It definitely looks great, and it seems […]
Re: Information request
I am getting more and more message from e-mail marketers that start with “Re:” followed by a very generic sentence that I could have written, just like anybody else. This is of course based on the assumption that we are used to receive answers to our own messages, and that we are more likely to […]