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mobc3 - new features demo video

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.

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 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).

MobilLife demo in Torino, Winter Olympics setting

Over the last week-end we had the opportunity to engage users with some of the MobiLife project applications at the Experimenta site, where a number of Winter Olympics initiatives were ongoing. Among other things, people had a chance to experiment with the innovative group management features of a leisure-oriented service or using their own body as an interaction mean to sky on a virtual slope. And finally they had their word to say as we asked them to give some feedback.         

                                                

MobiLife pics on Flickr

Browse project pictures on Flickr - there are demo screenshot, some of the experts faces (from 22 organizations spread across Europe) and a number of places related to its activities, from Helsinki to Munich and Turin...

MobiLife Oulu Summer School

Neos attended MobiLife Summer School in Oulu, Finland, from 5th to the 7th ofSeptember. Neos contributed with a presentation on scenario methodologies.

The entire bunch of the Summer School presentations is available on the Web from the MobiLife public site at Summer School Presentations (zip file).

Oulu is 600 km north of Helsinki, a good and cool place to give a try at the fading Finninsh summer ;) --Have a look at the city website, where if you will find a lot of picture like this one

 

Paper on business modelling accepted at IWS 2005

International Wireless Summit 2005
Neos contributed with other MobiLife organizations to the successfull submission of a paper on "Opportunities and Threats from Business Models Perspective"