Update (10/8/09): As of this afternoon (GMT) service has been mostly restored again.
Over the last few days java.net has been subject to denial-of-service attacks that have made the site very slow or temporarily inaccessible to users.
The java.net team is working with the highest priority to restore full service. As part of this effort the network infrastructure of the java.net systems will be reconfigured to allow the systems to resume normal operation. This means users in certain locations will not be able to access java.net temporarily.
The java.net team realizes the impact this has on users and sincerely apologizes for the problems and inconveniences caused.
Online retail giant introduces a new version of its e-book reader that can wirelessly download books in the United States and more than 100 countries.
Ever since I started using Nokia Internet Tablets (the 770, N800, N810), my biggest dream has always been the addition of GSM radio and packet data transmission, which would make them fully functional, always connected mobile devices, rather than just "tablets", relying on access to WiFi hotspot or requiring the use of mobile phone for remote Internet access and for phone calls. I've loved the flexibility and performance of the Linux (Debian) based Maemo operating system and, especially, the Hildon user interface, providing PDA (or even computer) like experience rather than dumb smartphone UI. I missed such an advanced PDA-phone since the Series 80 platform was killed and the N900 seems to be my dream finally come true. Is it? 
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Amazon is offering mobile developers a new way to sell their wares. Their new mobile payment service means anyone with an Amazon account can make over-the-air purchases.
Please welcome our new Community Star: Johan Karlsson. Among other things, Johan has been busy answering questions on various Mobile & Embedded forums, writing articles for the Sun Developer Network (SDN), and is a co-founder of the open source Microlog project.
In the last two days, two forecasts informed us about the value of the mobile app market in – convenient as ever – the distant future that is 2013. US analyst firm Yankee Group predicts the US app mobile market to be worth $4.2bn by then. Today, British analyst Wireless Expertise (run by former Netsize exec Anuj Kanna) topped this easily by predicting the (global) app market size to be $16.6bn by that time (free copy of the report here).
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Open source has become a critical component of virtually all software and will continue to be such.
It was a Sunday morning when finally I decided to organize some books that had been scattered in cartons for a long time. I wanted to put them on the bookshelf, when I saw three books that were not mine. I was surprised! Those books brought back memories when I was a boy in high school. I was remembering that I had borrowed those books a long time ago and never returned to their owner. Sure, the owner of the books forgot about loaning them to me. Can you imagine a book loaned for over 10 years?
On Thursday I head up to London for the 
As expected, the FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski outlined’s the agency’s plans this morning for new rules that will prevent telecom companies from discriminating what kind of traffic or applications run over wired or wireless networks. 
Here's yet another article about how the RealNetworks RealGames division is using their EMERGE platform and their new Federation of Studios (FoS) to lure all those disgruntled iPhone developers back to the Motherland: Java ME technology.
There are rare times that I will actually tell you NOT to buy a Java ME tech-enabled cell phone. Here's one such case. It turns out the LG 150 does have Java ME technology (yay! :-)), but also exceeds the U.S. and Canadian government safety limits for radiation emission!!! Ahhhh!!! 38-O
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I can’t comment on the Oracle-Sun acquisition but I’d like to direct your attention to the first-page ad in todays Wall Street Journal. I don’t think anyone should be doubting Oracles commitment. Personally, I’m looking forward to what’s to come.
Here's a recent comparison of Larva Labs sales data for 8/2009 of their Android port of their app versus their iPhone port. The money they made on their Android port wasn't even enough to cover something basic like powering on their computers. See: 
HTC released its fourth phone based on Google's Android platform, the Tattoo, promising users a new level of customization. The news comes days after Sprint Nextel said it would launch the HTC Hero and right before Motorola is set to unveil its first Android offerings. 
I recently committed some code signifying the direction LWUIT is now taking towards our 1.3 release and hopefully towards a more organized development plan that would include more official releases with predefined features. Some of the major changes going into 1.3 are already beginning to appear and some of the other architectural changes are already drawn in the sand ...
