A little bit about mobile, the Internet and research in these areas…
I finally had to get rid of my latest Nokia phone. It’s enough, really. The most consistent feature was the phone’s unreliability. It was buggy, slow – simply an awful experience. And it was Nokia’s ‘flagship’, the N97. I cannot imagine how a standard user must feel after having paid hundreds of pounds (or an [...]
Some of you might know – I’ve been a Nokia device guy for many years. When joining Nokia in 2000, I got my first Nokia mobile phone (after having had an Ericsson one for some 3 years) and never changed since (the brand, obviously). It would have been a bit difficult to change while working [...]
We’ve heard a lot recently about music on phones, haven’t we? It seems like finding the holy grail sometimes. Apple’s push into the mobile market with the iPhone was long expected, surely hyped but also wanted by many who wanted to finally have a mobile phone that actually integrates music well. And now, it is [...]
Lately, we see more and more of these great services for mobile devices: messengers (e.g., YahooGo!), uploading photos via FlickR, LifeBlog, permanent recording of events, wireless sensing, AI on our phones and what not. And not to mention here presence, VOIP, surfing etc. as rather basic IP services.
But I keep wondering, in particular after I’ve [...]
After a long uphill battle with Nokia’s legal and IPR departments, the NORS (Nokia Remote Sensing) platform is finally going public (see here)!
NORS provides a platform solution for mobile-centric wireless sensing, implemented as a centralized server with a collection of mobile devices acting as gateways towards local WSNs. This solution has been developed based on [...]