Posted: July 8th, 2005 | No Comments »
GeoGeny, developed by the Swiss-based CPR Group Inc is being used at the Montreux Jazz festival to follow the movements of all the interveners in the field – the police, firemen, ambulance men, tow trucks and life boats – and kept them permanently informed how the situation was evolving. In addition, the system handled all the searches for festival goers who had got lost. The system uses an impressive list of technologies GPS, SMS, MMS, GSM, GPRS, EVF, RFID, and UMTS. GPS positioning is done using the SiRFstartIII chipset that is supposed to work in many indoor environments, urban canyons, and under dense foliage by using signal-processing correlators to increase the sensitivity.
Complementary information (en french)
Posted: July 7th, 2005 | No Comments »
Personal World Map, developed by Roxanna Torre, reshaps maps according to time and money to travel. It is a designer version of cartographic anamorphosis that represent travel in terms of time instead of distance.
Posted: July 5th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Extending the Reach of MIDlets: how MIDlets can access native services explains how to get access to Symbian phones native code in J2ME (since the sandbox does not allow JNI). The writer of the article, Arvind Gupta, also provides explaination and code sample in MIDP JNI Workaround.
I will use it to plug my STAMPS J2ME prototype to GSM Tracker written in Symbian.
Posted: July 5th, 2005 | No Comments »
There are mainly 2 ways to launch native applications at boot time on Symbian systems:
Start-on-Boot Registration API allows to specify that an executable be launched and kept running indefinitely by registering it for re-launch as part of the phone’s boot sequence.
EzBoot: A boot manager application. It allow you to autostart an application (typically a server) when the phone is powered on.
Posted: July 3rd, 2005 | No Comments »
According to easyJet’s In-Flight, Barcelona is the answer to a new generation of young and creative people and bohemians ex-pats: Barcelona New Bohemians.
Posted: July 3rd, 2005 | No Comments »
Via RoRk, the papers presented at World of Play between June 16th and 20th in Vancouver are now available online. A pile of papers that will add up to me summer list.
