Sun Microsystems and its allies are preparing a new release of Java software for cell phones that they hope will prevent a splintering of the Java market and stave off rivals such as Microsoft. The ...

The company, along with Java backers, is preparing a new release of its software for cell phones that it hopes will prevent a splintering of the market and stave off rivals such as Microsoft. Stephen ...

Nokia today announced a new version of its Series 60 operating system (OS) for smartphones. The headline improvement is an upgrade to the new MIDP 2.0 version of Java. The new Java APIs support ...

The actual big Java news at the show was not any new handsets, but the new "open sourcing" of the next mobile Java version, called both JSR 232 and MIDP 3.0. Nokia, Motorola, and SavaJe all talked ...

Sun's telecom partners in Asia are planning deeper use of Java software in mobile phones. The phones' appeal may still be narrow, though, because of a limited number of applications. Stephen Shankland ...

San Francisco, Calif. — Support for the J2ME MIDP 2.0 specification has been added to the JBlend Java platform. In addition to complete support for MIDP2.0, the upgraded Java 2.0 package includes, as ...

June 10, 2003 — Nokia’s Series 60 software platform for mobile phones now supports MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile) 2.0, the latest version of a Java profile for mobile devices, the company ...

A core feature of the MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile) technology is its support for developing mobile phone user interfaces. The MIDP provides a set of Java APIs known as the LCDUI, which has ...