As an Assistant Professor, I'm teaching Symbian OS at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Austria. My company "Mopius" is developing mobile software with a special focus on Symbian OS.
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Protect your Skis with your Phone!
TDS-S uses NFC technology to secure your skis.
Near Field Communication (NFC) is mostly associated with micro payment systems or access solutions. These are the ideal use cases for rather slow, but contactless information...
Mobile Surround Sound
3D Sound on current mobile phones might mainly be a marketing gag – like the sound effects found on Nokia phones like the N95. It certainly does sound nice to have your ringtones swirl around and it works surprisingly well. But of course, it’s just simulated surround with two small...
Automatically Calling Back Saves Money
Auto Call Back can help you to save money.
Starting with today, I'm now also on one of the hugely popular all-inclusive phone tariff plans. In Austria, every operator currently has a plan with a certain number of minutes (usually 1000 or...
Abandon your Privacy
CrystalMe explores offering all your private data to the public any time.
When Nokia released the Mobile Web Server, we were always thinking, “There is more to this technology than is initially visible”. Just think about it –...
Efficiency Boost - New Carbide.c++ Panic Lookup Plug-In
Everyone who has spent at least a few hours developing in C++ for Symbian OS will know about Symbian OS system error and panic codes. No doubt one of the most “famous” is the KERN-EXEC 3 (null pointer exception). But what if you encounter an E32USER-CBase 71? What is the error -5?...
A new way of using the mobile phone for the visually impaired
Nowadays, more and more features are added to every new generation of mobile phones. It’d be hard to find a phone without camera, mp3 player or advanced games. However, sightless people don’t get a chance to experience these fascinating possibilities.
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Freeware Symbian Signed: 2 Months+?
New title screen of "The Journey" - now based on pure vector graphis. Currently, I’m trying to release the S60 v3-port of the location based freeware game called “ The Journey ”. It uses the cell ids of the mobile phone network to determine the...
Mobile Morning (Plus: New S60 Text-to-Speech App!)
Yesterday, I had an especially hard time getting up in the morning. This made me think about available tools that can help – and how these can be integrated with mobile phones. After all, you hear from time to time that the alarm clock in a mobile phone is one of the...
Who am I?
Thinking about what mobile phones can do except messaging and voice calls is one of my main interests. At the department of Mobile Computing at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg (Austria), I can work on those ideas every day by collaborating with students, researching and - well - thinking.
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- Protect your Skis with your Phone!
- Mobile Surround Sound
- Automatically Calling Back Saves Money
- Abandon your Privacy
- Euro 2008? -> Table Soccer on your phone!
- Mobile Game Controllers: Problem Solved!
- Efficiency Boost - New Carbide.c++ Panic Lookup Plug-In
- ShakerRacer is now Open Source!
- 3D games and more – Java ME course materials available
- ShakerRacer: Real RC car controlled with the N95 acceleration sensor
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