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mobc3 successfully deployed on Google Phones and major gaming consoles

mobc3 Suite is now compatible with the new Android/Google phones and the most widespread gaming consoles, including the forthcoming Nintendo DSi: the connected edition of the 60M+ user portable gaming console. 

Accompanying the mass market adoption of rich media on mobile devices will make companies achieve the promise of the mobile Internet and create new business opportunities. Brands who want to thrive must provide their customers with access to the content through the screen and devices they interact with throughout their day. A proper iPhone and smartphone strategy, now extended with the new Google phones and the most successful gaming consoles in the world is a critical – and profitable – first step towards creating a digital marketing and content mix that makes a difference with the consumers who spend te most on being in touch with the brands.

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.

MobiLife successfully concluded

After more than two years of intense work, last week Neos joined the final Helsinki meeting of MobiLife, one of the most relevant European collaborative R&D projects on mobile applications and services - find here a page listing all the project results.

We are very proud and happy for having taken part in this effort, in which we contributed mostly to:

• Scenarios and user studies (see e.g. scenarios and guidelines public version and final service and application evaluation)
• Marketplace analysis and business modelling (including e.g. the initial market overview, the design of a set of business models and a final market and socio-economics analysis)
• Group management and coordination technologies, as represented especially with the Group Display Widgets and the Time Gems application (see e.g. the final report on the groups work area)
• Context-awareness technologies, with a strong focus on personal context and personal health through the HeartPod application (find again e.g. the final report on the context work area).

Neos is actively working on the commercial exploitation of the project results and look forward to continue as well the R&D work in these fields. As for now, it is time to express our big thanks to Nokia Research as project coordinator and all the other partners: Alcatel, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, NEC, Siemens, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe, Elisa Corporation, Fraunhofer FOKUS, University of Helsinki, Universität Kassel, The University of Surrey, Telematica Instituut, UNIS, Suunto, BellStream, Helsinki University of Technology, Telecom Italia Lab.

Neos at Koln 2007

February 1st is ICT proposer's Day in Koln. We will be there to discuss about cooperation opportunities in FP7. Have a look at our interests and let us know if they match yours.

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.

The developer's perspective on creating new services

On late June Neos attended ICMB 2006, the International Conference on Mobile Business. The gathering has been held at the Copenhagen Business School in its newly designed building and hosted also the WWI-Wireless World Initiative cross-issue meeting on business modelling; in this context Luca Galli gave a presentation about SPICE and the issue of creating mobile services in the services developer's perspective.

NEM assembly in Brussels, moving towards FP7 (and an emerging Italian perspective)

Neos attended the NEM-Networked Electronic Media general assembly in Brussels. The meeting (see all the presentations online) has been an important occasion for pubic discussion around the current SRA-Strategic Research Agenda (now in version 3.0) and progress towards the next.

The rework of the agenda will be also functional to identify the most promising research topics for the forthcoming FP7, whose first call is expected to be announced before the year end. So this is more and more time to act. Over the next weeks and months Neos will actively get in touch with other organizations interested in the field. From this point of view we are glad to report a more active than usual presence of Italian players. Some of us discussed informally about the opportunity to set up an Italian NEM mirror group - hope to be back on this soon...

Forthcoming eMobility General Assembly in Bruxelles

Neos will attend the eMobility European Technology Platform General Assembly in Brussels on 23rd of November. More information on eMobility here.