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Massimo Pettiti enters Neos as CIO

Massimo Pettiti, former Head of Innovation at H3G - Tre Italia, enters Neos as Chief Innovation Officer to develop innovative services in the mobile and wireless domain.

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

Neos discusses advances in ubiquitous computing at the Osservatorio BelTel round table

Neos discusses the ubiquitous computing vision and its implementation in mobc3 with a number of experts in the round table Calm Technologies: una tecnologia di servizio e supporto agli utenti organized by the Osservatorio BelTel

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.

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