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Neos partners with GS1

Neos demonstrates the reality of mobile commerce for businesses and consumers with the integration of 1D and 2D barcodes and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags with iPhones and smartphones

mobc3 - new features demo video

mobc3 - mobilize your content and make your ideas fly

Recent advances in the development of mobc3, Neos content and commerce mobile platform are illustrated in a presentation and a video, available in English and Italian

Novel mobile content management at MobiMedia 2007

The research work and the architecture design in the area of mobile content management has been presented at MobiMedia 2007, the Third International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference. The interdisciplinary approach as the basis of Neos mobc3 platform has been shown, where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly to demonstrate efficient delivery of multimedia applications and services over emerging diverse wireless networks.

The MobiLife book goes on print

Based on the cooperative research effort to which Neos participated in 2005-2007 and co-authored by Neos professionals Dario Melpignano, Luca Galli and Rinaldo Nani, the MobiLife book, published by Wiley, describes the architectural framework, the results and the conclusions of practical work during 2.5 years. It includes a defined service architecture/infrastructure with interoperable components on user interaction, context-awareness, privacy & trust, personalization, and services support; definitions of key enabling technologies; reference applications for a number of innovative applications/service concepts; and qualitative evaluations and field studies with more than 250 end-users in Italy and Finland. The architecture and technology solutions have been validated both in technical and non-technical dimensions. It  includes marketplace analysis with validations by more than 20 key experts in Finland, The Netherlands, U.K, Italy and Germany; and pioneering legal/regulatory analysis of the challenges related to new advanced application/service solutions with remarks on, e.g., personalization and Digital Rights Management.

mobc3 - make your ideas fly

Based on three years of research and development work in mobile services innovation, first implementations of Neos mobc3 mobile content platform are released on the market. Initial clients include financial services, publishing and transportation organizations.

Neos at IST2006

Neos has joined IST2006 conference in Helsinki/Finland on 21-23 November 2006 to illustrate the results of the IST Integrated Project MobiLife for mobile applications and services supporting people’s everyday lives based on the evolving capabilities of 3G systems and beyond. Among MobiLife reference applications where Neos concentreted its efforts, the Personal Context Monitor (MyHeartPod), in for the healthcare and wellness industry and TimeGems for the media fruition and personal entertainment in smart environments will be presented and demonstrated.

Context and content, Neos at the ITU Mainz event

The emergence of "context as content" - with its business and regulatory challenges - has been the topic of the presentation given by Luca Galli at the ITU Mainz workshop on "The Regulatory Environment for Future Mobile Multimedia Services", hosted by the Germany Federal Network agency ("Bundesnetzagentur", see the nice nameplate with the imperial eagle). Some 60 experts participated in the workshop, representing a range of regulatory and policy-making agencies, mobile operators, service providers, academic institutions, private firms, and others.

Luca talked about a number of application and services developed in the MobiLife project. The main idea was about discussing how "context" and context-based solutions can be seen in the people's perspective by means of some simple questions like “What are you doing?” (to represent one's place and situation) or “How do you feel?” (talking about one's physical conditions) or “Would you like to join us?” (referring to possible social settings).

Business modelling and regulatory challenges have then been pointed out, touching issues like value networks evolution, content adaptation and copyright violation, privacy and trust changing attitudes, among others.

As a sidenote, we did enjoy also the "national party" feeling that was so high in Mainz - and all around Germany - for the World Cup (even at the airport... have a look at the dudes playing in one of the Flughafen Frankfurt public lounges).

Classic reading on your mobile phone - just listen to your memory card

Have you ever thought that your mobile phone could be a nice companion for good, old-fashioned classic books reading? This is what Italians could get now on standard memory cards for mobile phones with "Playlibro" (literally a "playbook"): this is a truly mobile audio book engineered by Neos and offered on the initiative of publishing and media leader RCS group companies RCS Libri and RCS Broadcast through the FM station Play Radio. The first mobile audio book is being launched now at the "Salone del Libro", the giant-size book fair and book lovers gathering held annually in Torino. The first issue is for a real, ever best-selling classic, Jonathan Livingston Seagull (in Italian: "Il gabbiano Jonathan Livingston") by Richard Bach. The audio text is available on a 128 megabyte RS-MMC (reduced size MultiMedia Card); the package includes also an adaptor for the MMS format and will be on sale at bookshops, computer and mobile phone shops. The news is also on dispaly on the main Italian daily "Corriere della Sera" portal (for Italian readers only ;)