Published by Adam Myatt on 02 Jun 2009
JavaOne 2009 – Day 1 – Sun Announces Partnership with Verizon
During the opening keynote, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz brought onstage Lowell McAdam, the CEO of Verizon Wireless. Together they announced a partnership. Verizon will be making available to developers on July 27th. They will be opening up their network elements, allowing developers to access data like friends presence (online, available, etc.), their location, buddy lists, etc. all through Verizon open APIs.
Developers can find out more at Verizon’s developer web site. Mor einfo TBD.
I’ll be interested to see if there’s any tie-in to development IDEs like NetBeans and if the Verizon APIs will be workable in the Mobility tools in NetBeans.