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iStuff Mobile: Prototyping Interactions for Mobile Phones in Interactive Spaces

iStuff Mobile is a rapid prototyping platform that helps explore novel interactions that combine sensor enhanced mobile phones and interactive spaces. The toolkit includes sensor network platforms, mobile phone software, and a proven rapid prototyping framework. Interaction designers can use iStuff Mobile to quickly create and test novel interactions without...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Interaction, Aachen University, Toolkit, Cell Phone, iStuff Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2006-03-14

Spying With Bots

Spyware has become a major threat in today's Internet. In May 2005, for example, an incident in Israel showed that spyware can be very dangerous. Several large companies in Israel are suspected of having used a malicious program to steal sensitive information from their rivals. In this espionage case, the...

Tags: Robot, Aachen University, Malicious Program, Israel, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hacking

White papers 2005-12-01

A Video Gateway to Support Video Streaming to Mobile Clients

This paper describes how video streaming from or to mobile participants of a video conference can be supported by a so called "Mobility Gateway". The gateway interconnects a mobile client, through a wireless link, to a fixed network LAN or WAN multicast environment and performs intelligent operations on the video...

Tags: Gateway Inc., Mobile, Aachen University, Gateway, Streaming Video, Video, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Marketing, Internet

White papers

Additional Resources

The future of tech IPOs

At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, Frank Quattrone, co-founder of Qatalyst, talks about the dismal condition of the current IPO market, why venture capitalist backed companies are not going public right now, and what the future holds.

Tags: IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Venture Capital, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Tech IPOs

Videos 2008-07-25

10 essential gadgets for students

I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...

Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-25

10 essential gadgets for students

Showing you some of the gadgets college and university students really shouldn't live without. by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Student, Zack Whittaker, Gadgets, University, Pen drive, Cell phone, Laptop, Computer

Image galleries 2008-07-25

Government, markets and regulation

Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...

Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Is open source hurt by piracy?

Is open source hurt by piracy?Only hurts Open Source if proprietary is seen as "better"Sounds like what you are saying is for example, that the competition in the office suite space is Open Office Vs MS Office Vs pirated MS Office. Those willing to pirate see both Open Office...

Tags: Operating systems, open source, piracy, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship

NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...

Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Google opens Knol website, a wiki with bylines

In a direct challenge to the popular Wikipedia, Google opened Knol, an encyclopedia-like wiki site that requires writers to post their names and expertise. SAN FRANCISCO--Google opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a...

Tags: Google Inc., DuPont Co., Web Site, Wikipedia, Knol, Wiki, Online Communications, Reuters, Google, encyclopedia

News items 2008-07-24

Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875

Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875 is a thoroughly average, entry-level laptop. It wasn't too long ago that an average, entry-level laptop meant one that was underpowered and shabbily...

Tags: Notebooks, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite, Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875, laptop computer

Product reviews 2008-07-23

75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws

In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...

Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Is this the New Apple?

PowerPage podcaster Youngmoo Kim relays his experience with trying to get an iPhone 3G and on being an "IRU" Individual Responsible User. Apple just doesn't want me to have an iPhone 3G.  After a few half-hearted attempts bailing at the sight of long lines, I spent about two hours...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., IRU, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-22

10 hard drive disasters

Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data recovery company. Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard...

Tags: Hard Drive, hard drives, data recovery, Dan Ilett, Silicon.com

News items 2008-07-22

The key barrier to health care reform

The key barrier to health care reformReducing residenciesHey, at least Georgia [b]has[/b] residencies. Arizona's University Hospital has, thanks to Andrew Weil, turned all of its general practice residencies into NCCAAM-funded "alternative health care" training programs.If you think it's bad now, wait until your insurance only covers "therapeutic touch" and...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, barrier, health care, residency, physician

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Towards low-cost LED lighting

You all know that incandescent bulbs are pretty inefficient, converting only 10% of electricity into light -- and 90% into heat. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, could soon replace incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs in our homes. They are more efficient and environmentally friendly. But LED lights are currently too expensive...

Tags: Purdue University, Silicon, LED Lighting, Light-emitting Diode, Silicon Substrate, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...

Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions

Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictionsProxies"By using a proxy, you can bypass any filtering software on the network"Only if they're incompetent. I work for a company that has hardware that a proxy wouldn't get around the rules, even if it's SSL.Your statement about proxies is wrong.If the university simply sets a...

Tags: INTERNET, Workforce management, Untrustworthy student, Untrustworthy

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja

Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...

Tags: John McCain, Cybersecurity, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions

You know the drill. You spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars on higher education at your college or university of choice. But when you go to use your Internet connection or a public computer on campus, you login and it's locked down so tight, you can barely...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Network, IT Administrator, Operating System, Web Site, Computer, Productivity, Web Site Development, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-18