Smartphones get all the buzz, but mobile app warehouse GetJar claims that 90 percent of phones in use worldwide, and 72 percent of American phones, are still the non-smartphones that the mobile ...

The recent release of MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile) features a major improvement over version 1.0. Version 2.0 includes enhanced mobile code and application security through a well ...

Xamarin, a fast-growing mobile app development startup that's got a close partnership with Microsoft, has snapped up tiny startup RoboVM in a little acquisition that could lead to some huge growth ...

Sun Microsystems exec says Java is riding on the "high degree" of mobile application development in the region.

The Java platform for small mobile devices The standard Java APIs and virtual machine (VM) are feature rich. But standard Java applications are simply too big and too slow to run directly on ...

allows developers to create immersive mobile content while leveraging their existing investment in Java. JavaFX provides a unified development and deployment model for rich applications across the ...

Amazon's early approach to hybrid HTML5 Android app development may not have been a straight path, but according to their director of app developer services, Ethan Evans, the process taught volumes.

Today, Facebook is addressing the 2,500 feature phones out there that can download Java apps with a new app called Facebook for Every Phone.

This week Masabi, the UK-based secure mobile apps company, has announced that BT has validated the cryptographic algorithms used in EncryptME. This is the world’s first mobile Java security ...

Facebook has started its figthback against Google and its Google+ project. The company has just released a Java-based version of its mobile application, which should extend its reach to just ...