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- SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid
- This paper presents a novel ubiquitous computing device, the SenseCam, a sensor augmented wearable stills camera. SenseCam is designed to capture a digital record of the wearer's day, by recording a series of images and capturing a log of sensor data. The authors believe that reviewing this information will help...
- Tags: Ubiquitous Computing, Memory, SenseCam
- White papers 2006-07-26
- A Study of Bluetooth Propagation Using Accurate Indoor Location Mapping
- The ubiquitous computing community has widely researched the use of 802.11 for the purpose of location inference. Meanwhile, Bluetooth is increasingly widely deployed due to its low power consumption and cost. This paper describes a study of Bluetooth radio propagation using an accurate indoor location system to conduct fine-grained signal...
- Tags: Propagation, Ubiquitous Computing, Springer Science+Business Media, Ubiquitous Computing Community, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2005-07-19
- ubiquitous computing for the Public
- Today inch-scale computing devices are readily available to the masses. These come with various types of wireless connectivity (gprs, bluetooth, wifi), have decent battery life, and most importantly can be bought at reasonable prices. Despite the progress made in Ubiquitous Computing since it was first envisaged back in 1987, its...
- Tags: Ubiquitous Computing
- White papers 2005-04-27
- Security Requirements in Service Oriented Architectures for ubiquitous computing
- This work presents a detailed analysis of the security requirements for Service Oriented Architecture in mobile computing, still missing in the current literature. The purpose of this work is twofold. First, to provide protocol architects and software engineers with a map of security requirements in ubiquitous computing, through the evaluation...
- Tags: Security, Security Requirement, Ubiquitous Computing, SOA, Association For Computing Machinery, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-02-20
- EZCab: A Cab Booking Application Using Short-Range Wireless Communication
- Recently, short-range wireless networking has started to live up to its expectations, and one can see a large deployment of products based on either IEEE 802.11 standards or Bluetooth. While short-range wireless technology is on its way to become ubiquitous in the near future, little has been done to develop...
- Tags: Network, New Jersey, Ubiquitous Computing, Wireless Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2004-12-30
- SA-RFID: Situation-Aware RFID Architecture Analysis in ubiquitous computing
- The Radio Frequency IDentification RFID system enables to identify objects by contactless wireless access using radio frequency, monitor object status, and process transactions without human's intervention. The RFID is widely used for various applications such as transportations, electronic cash, and logistics and so on. Sensors in ubiquitous computing provide a...
- Tags: Aware, Ubiquitous Computing, Analysis, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2004-11-09
- Issues in Integrating Cellular Networks, WLANs and MANETs: A Futuristic Heterogeneous Wireless Network
- Popularity of the wireless communication systems can be seen almost everywhere in the form of cellular networks, WLANs and WPANs. The desired ubiquitous computing environment of the future has to exploit this multitude of connectivity alternatives resulting from diverse wireless communication systems and different access technologies to provide useful services...
- Tags: Network, Wireless Communication, Ubiquitous Computing, WLAN, Cellular Network, Wireless Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Wireless LANs, Networking
- White papers 2004-11-08
- Support for Personal and Service Mobility in ubiquitous computing Environments
- Ubiquitous computing environment is defined by the shift of computing technology from the desktop to the background. One of its most notable attributes is its potential to extend the scope of service and personal mobility. This paper describes an agent-based architecture that brings personal and service mobility to the ubiquitous...
- Tags: Agent, Ubiquitous Computing, University Of Ottawa, Mobility, Ubiquitous Computing Environment, Real Estate, Business Operations
- White papers 2004-09-16
- Case Study on Retail Customer Communication Applying ubiquitous computing
- The use of mobile information systems and communication technology furthers the informatization and automation of operating processes. In the retail industry, mobile communication technology affords new forms of customer communication by establishing electronic and individually designable channels of communication. In conjunction with powerful information systems, these options enable both improved...
- Tags: Mobile, Ubiquitous Computing, Pricing Strategy, Customer Communication, Pricing, Marketing Research, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Strategy, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management
- White papers 2004-07-03
- Towards a Wireless Architecture for Mobile Ubiquitous E-Learning
- New wireless technologies can be used to boost interactivity, thus helping create community, as people remain online even while going about their business. The use of wireless technology paves the way for a literal interpretation of mobile ubiquitous computing. People can get online, be reached, and interact anywhere and anytime....
- Tags: Mobile, Wireless Technology, Interactivity, Ubiquitous Computing, E-learning, Wireless, Wi-Fi
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- A Highly Adaptable Infrastructure for Service Discovery and Management in ubiquitous computing
- The design outlined in this paper provides an infrastructure and communication protocol for presenting services to heterogeneous mobile clients in a physical space via some short range wireless links. This system uses a Communication Manager to communicate with the client devices. The Communication Manager can be modified easily to work...
- Tags: University Of Maryland, Ubiquitous Computing, XML, Tcp/Ip, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Networking, Marketing
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Additional Resources
- RIM's Lazaridis on why Qwerty's still working
- RIM's co-CEO tells Silicon.com why he believes smartphones are the future, why Qwerty is so exciting, and why the Bold has nothing to do with the iPhone. BlackBerry maker RIM has been very busy this week hosting the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Fla. One of the announcements...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Phone, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, Qwerty, Keyboards, Smart Phones, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Silicon.com, Consumer electronics
- News items 2008-05-16
- Introduction to BIT
- This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...
- Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?
- Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...
- Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Patent reform dead for 2008
- The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...
- Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- The newspaper's last stand
- Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...
- Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- VIA reveals world's lowest-power x86 processor on world's smallest board
- Since nothing gets Toybox readers going quite like processor wars -- I mean, hey, it's the Crusades of computing -- I thought I'd throw this little morsel into the ring. Arriving in the Toybox inbox this morning from Taipei is news that VIA Technologies has announced their...
- Tags: Board, X86 Processor, Corporate Governance, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- What's wrong at OpenSolaris
- The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
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