Posts filed under 'Technology'
We will be doing a lecture and workshop at one of the most important hacker events this year: Chaos Communication Camp takes place every four years near Berlin. This year from 8 to 12 August.
The lecture is titled “Fun with NFC Mobile Phones” and is scheduled at Day 3, 10 August at 12.30 pm. If you are interested, please give us a visit. We are looking forward to seeing you there.
The lecture will give an extensive overview over NFC technology, available devices, current and future applications. We will also show what we have done with NFC so far. In the workshop we will give a short introduction into building your own NFC applications.
July 11th, 2007
The IEB students team has successfully participated in the first European NFC competition and has been invited to the final round taking place at the first European NFC Developers Summit at WIMA 2007 in Monaco!
We are very happy about the invitation and are looking forward to meeting the European NFC developer community. See you down there!
April 10th, 2007
Are you still excited over Apple’s iPhone? There is a much more interesting new mobile phone out there: OpenMoko, the world’s “First Integrated Open Source Mobile Communications Platform”. Open Source Platform: develop and install any software you like.
January 29th, 2007
Nokia just released another NFC device: the 6131 NFC. I don’t quite understand why Nokia is going for consumer devices (MP3 player) for their NFC strategy and not for business, but it is still an important step towards the proposed NFC infrastructure.
Read the article on golem or see the Nokia press release.
January 8th, 2007
Microsoft finally released A.U.R.A. (Advanced User Resource Annotation system), a software for annotating products with mobile devices. The research project already released one paper back in 2003, which introduces many ideas of the mobile prosumer. The software is available for download. Please, give it a try, if you own a microsoft powered mobile device. Let us know your experience. If you can provide us with such a device, get in contact.
Cartoon from gapingvoid.com.
December 19th, 2006
I have written a short paper about the Mobile Prosumer for the Mobile Business course.
Abstract:
The internet of things is only a few steps away and promises interesting opportunities in mobile business. The really ubiquitous computer distributed worldwide today is the mobile phone. In this paper, we introduce The Mobile Prosumer, a mobile phone application with corresponding server infrastructure for delivering relevant product information to consumers at the Point of Sale.
We describe the theoretical and social context, our implementation of a prototype and explain how starting this market is possible today with available web content and already ubiquitous EAN barcodes. Our approach anticipates integration of the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and a global service oriented information system, which will make this business the next big thing.
Please, download and read the paper. Your feedback is highly appreciated.
November 19th, 2006
