http://blog.mobileprosumer.com Empowering the consumer Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:09:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Uwe and I will be on the programme committee of the 1st International Workshop on NFC 2009 organized and hosted by the University of Hagenberg in Austria. The International Workshop on NFC 2009 is the first scientific workshop, which is focusing on the area of Near Field Communication (NFC). Workshop date: February ... http://blog.mobileprosumer.com/2008/07/12/1st-international-workshop-on-near-field-communication-nfc09/ Daniel and I will be giving a lecture at the "Smart University 2008" in Sophia-Antipolis, French Riviera on September 19th. The Smart University program consists of 6 tracks of 2 days according to a workshop format which enables time for Q&A and for discussions, and a large interactivity between ... http://blog.mobileprosumer.com/2008/07/05/welcome-to-smart-university-2008/ Hi everybody, we have added a presentation on slideshare about the mobile prosumer (MP) and mobile sales assistant (MSA). It includes a few slides about the concept and the project. NFC Applications in Retail All the best Florian % Stephan http://blog.mobileprosumer.com/2008/06/29/slideshare-presentation-added/ Hi Everyone, if you want to hear about the mobile prosumer and its possibilities in the adaption to Nonfood use cases, you are very welcome to meet us at the GS1 Nonfood Conference 2008 The programm is available here [pdf]. We will be talking on the February, 21st . Title: "Vom Outlet bis zum ... http://blog.mobileprosumer.com/2008/02/11/meet-us-at-the-gs1-nonfood-conference-2008/ I have missed the first event in Espoo but I plan to go to the second: Nokia is organising another NFC developer meeting in Amsterdam. 3 December. http://blog.mobileprosumer.com/2007/10/23/nokia-nfc-developer-event/ Another event lined up: I will be presenting at the Industrie- und Handelskammer (IHK) in Munich about RFID and consumers. The event has about 10 speakers, it is all about case studies and learnings from industry cases. Date: 18.09.2007! Topic of my talk is "RFID und Konsumenten. Innovative Ideen und mögliche Herangehensweisen" Check ... http://blog.mobileprosumer.com/2007/08/30/rfid-%e2%80%93-future-technology-for-smes/ We are happy to announce that we will give a talk about RFID and consumers at the 8th ECR Day in Hamburg, Germany. The talk will cover new ideas on future interaction at the point of sale, as well as how to make use of Near Field Communication in retail industries. The ... http://blog.mobileprosumer.com/2007/08/22/presenting-the-topic-rfid-consumers-at-the-8th-ecr-day-in-hamburg/ AIRTAG introduced a new point of sale Kiosksystem. The system is able to read RFID tags and cards (13,56MHz). What's interesting is, that they focus on the NFC frequency band, although the obvious target group is retail business (mainly using the UHF tags). Therefore the intended interaction seems to be ... http://blog.mobileprosumer.com/2007/07/15/new-nfc-based-kiosksystem-at-the-point-of-sale/ 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 ... http://blog.mobileprosumer.com/2007/07/11/upcoming-nfc-lecture-at-chaos-communication-camp-2007/ Our team has made a submission to the MobileHCI 2007 conference in Singapore for the demonstration panel. We were accepted with the paper entitled "NFC for retailers". So if you're in Singapore at the time of the conference, feel free to step by and check out our application. More information on ... http://blog.mobileprosumer.com/2007/06/20/submission-accepted-to-mobilehci-2007-in-singapor/