ISIS is a joit venture between AT&T, T-Mobile USA and Verizon and provides a national mobile commerce platform using NFC chips in the smartphones for mobile payment. A great number of manufacturers now will support the ISIS NFC technology in future smartphones. This will pave the way for mobile payment at least in the US. […]
NFC is rapidly coming to your next smartphone Read More »
The Mobile Web Components are: – collapsible list – scrollable area – pop-up menu – sliding drawer – slideshow and miscellaneous components like buttons and sparklines. The components are developed in HTML, CSS and JavaScript and can be downloaded here: http://projects.developer.nokia.com/mobile_web_components Take a look at them and perhaps you like them more than JQuery Mobile
Nokia releases some new Web components for Anna, MeeGo and Windows Phone development Read More »
Interestingly, Apple keeps its 28% market share while RIM and the others keep loosing: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/26/android-powered-56-percent-of-smartphones-sold-in-the-last-3-mon/
Android grows rapidly – Runs on 56% of smartphones sold in the last 3 months Read More »
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2011/09/28/as-meego-meets-its-end-samsung-and-intel-hope-tizen-can-rival-android/
Will ‘Tizen’ be able to compete against Android, or is it just another stillbirth Read More »
The goal of the thesis written by Lukas Steimle was to provide guidelines for building good mobile applications using the user centered design process. The different steps of the process are illustrated with an example gamble application that was developed during the course of writing the thesis. Original title: Leitfaden zur Entwicklung einer mobilen Anwendung
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Running Android apps on MeeGo sounds interesting. But does it really work? OpenMobile tries to make it happen by developing an Application Compatibility Layer for Android Apps. Unfortunately the OEM has to preinstall this feature on the device as OpenMobile won’t sell the technology to private customers. Take a look at the video here: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/22/openmobile-demos-acl-for-meego-promises-100-compatibility-with/
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The assurance of application performance is increasingly important for application development. Web 2.0 applications transfer the functionality part into the browser, so user interfaces can meet all the increasing requirements. An application in the browser should give users the feeling of a Rich-Client with all its benefits. To settle those claims JavaScript libraries are deployed
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Designing a good user interface is a difficult and complex task. Designing user interfaces for car infotainment systems is especially difficult as the user should not be distracted by it and (in the best case) should be able to use it “blindly”. This bachelor thesis discusses the process of creating a good user interface using
Conception of a HMI Prototype on Basis of a Tool Evaluation for Car Infotainment Systems Read More »
The standardized integration of mobile devices into vehicles is currently being developed. The Car Connectivity Consortium (formerly CE4A) specified the so called Terminal Mode to provide a simple and platform independent interface for connecting mobile devices with the car infotainment system. The Terminal Mode makes use of the VNC (RFB) protocol to transmit visual and
Software systems are tested for their behavior under different load conditions due to the execution of load tests. In order to obtain meaningful test results, the software must be monitored while it operates in a defined test environment. An important part of this environment are test data. The test data must have correct properties and
Automatic Generation of Product Related Testdata for Database Systems Read More »
