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Articles tagged with: Sun and Sun Microsystems
"Foxconn Effect" Fades as Top EMS Providers' Revenue Shrinks in 2008
After years of single-handedly powering the robust growth of the global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) business, Foxconn, aka Hon Hai Precision Industry achieved only a marginal revenue increase in 2008, causing the top-tier EMS market to contract, according to preliminary market-share results from iSuppli. more
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Web cubed – the network of everything
Handsets, laptops, cars and even clothes: they are all part of the 'network of things', an incarnation of the future internet, and European researchers are working hard to create that future now. more
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Open source in mobile phones: challenges for software vendors
Opinion piece by Adam Leach, principal analyst at Ovum
Open source is the emerging development methodology for mobile phones,
reducing operational costs, harnessing innovation and shortening time to market
for new devices and services. With both Nokia and Google already choosing an
open source model for their mobile platforms over the past twelve months, the
pressure is on independent software vendors (ISVs) in the mobile market to adopt
an open source strategy.
more
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Sun and Samsung Repoted Developing Java Based Smartphone
sun Microsystems and Samsung Electronics are reported to be jointly developing a mobile phone which they hope will challenge the Apple iPhone. The local JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported that sun Chairman Scott McNealy had said that the companies were working on a "Java phone" that would cost less than the Apple's iPhone, but would surpass it in functionality. more
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B2Br, Nokia sign partnership to offer mobile solutions"
Brazilian IT integrator B2Br, part of Grupo TBA, has signed an initial one-year partnership with the local unit of Finnish mobile phone company Nokia to offer mobility solutions to Brazil's banking, financial services and retail sectors, news service Panorama Brasil reported. more
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Opera Mini Installed in 15 Million Handsets
Usage of Opera Mini, a Java based Web browser for mobile phones, continues to grow worldwide. With more than 15 million cumulative users, Opera Mini claims to be the most popular downloadable Java software for mobile phones.
"With more than six million Java technology developers and 1.8 billion Java technology-enabled mobile handsets, the Java technology ecosystem continues to expand. Opera Mini has distinguished itself in this landscape and is succeeding to penetrate the market, making a great proof point of the ongoing vitality of the Java technology development community," says Jean Elliott, senior director Client Software Group product marketing, sun Microsystems.
"We're proud of Opera Mini's award winning usability, but ultimately it's a popular application because it is useful to everyone," says Tatsuki Tomita, EVP, Opera Software. "We wrote Opera Mini in Java technology so that we could bring the full Internet to the largest number of mobile phones around the world."
People in Russia and the United States are the most prolific users of Opera Mini, with the Chinese a close third. more
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The Growing Interest In Green IT
Despite a growing awareness that environmental concerns will impact their future IT operations, the vast majority of large companies have yet to build "green IT" requirements into how they buy and use technology, according to a new report by Forrester Research. A survey of 124 IT operations and procurement professionals in North America and Europe found that while 85 percent said environmental factors are important in planning IT operations, only one-quarter said they have written green criteria into their company's purchasing processes. more
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Sun Launches Java Based Handset Operating System
At the JavaOne conference, Rich Green, EVP of Software, sun Microsystems, previewed a mobile phone prototype with a rich, graphical interface, made possible by new software from sun. JavaFX Mobile, a mobile phone software system available to carriers, content owners and consumer electronics manufacturers, could help to reduce the costs of creating rich, mobile Internet devices. more
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Sun Microsystems Buys Mobile OS Developer
sun Microsystems has announced that it is to buy up all of SavaJe Technologies intellectual property assets. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. SavaJe (pronounced savage) is the developer of the SavaJe OS, a Java OS for mobile phones. Based on sun Microsystems' Micro Edition, their phones offer a Swing-based development platform for creating handset platforms which could be customised by operators, or other 3rd party distributors. more
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Authorities to seek consultancy for city Wi-Fi project
The municipality of Argentine city Rosario and the local IT hub Polo Tecnológico plan to launch an international bidding process in the coming months to select a consultancy to map out the city's digital services project, news site Canal Ar reported. more
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