An antenna integrated sensor implementation for hand or finger proximity recognition is developed. Capacitive sensor was installed on the antenna of functional Nokia 6021 phone. The sensitivity of the phone with planar inverted F antenna (PIFA) integrated sensor was measured with active TRP (total radiated power) and TIS (total isotropic sensitivity) measurements. Phone active measurements were...

For five years, the author has systematically studied audio capabilities of Pod and Mobile TV devices from Apple, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. This paper is the first public report from parts of the test investigating what a Mobile user is able to hear, and what she can't. Taking test results and perceptual criteria into account, guidelines are given for optimum station handling of program...

Today, many small, medium and big companies develop „vertical” M2M applications on their own. This leads to redundant functionalities in each application and doesn’t give the opportunity to open functions to a bigger market. A „horizontalization” of such applications and disposal in a „marketplace” will open new possibilities and markets even for small companies. This paper will highlight the M...

Mehran Abolhasan, University of Wollongong Nadeem Ahmed, University of New South Wales Vahid Azhari, McMaster University Shervan Fashandi, McMaster University Li Gao, University of Alabama Jaehoon Jeong, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities Jangeun Jun, North Carolina State University Ahmad Kholaif, McMaster University Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California Jiageng Li, Univ...

This study analyses the two case businesses strategy by using the strategy orientation and typology framework. The framework is build as synthesis from market and product orientation characteristics found from literature as well as the Miles and Snow strategy typology. This framework is used to evaluate Nokia mobile phones and Amer strategy. Nokia’s and Amer’s successful business and business t...

This paper presents an algorithm that recognizes an input photo of a painting displayed at a museum exhibition out of 33 paintings in the set. The input photos were taken with a Nokia N93 cell phone, which has a 3 mega-pixel digital camera. The snapshots were taken under different light conditions and from different vantage points. This algorithm would be useful during a museum tour; the touris...

This paper presents our experiences in building a UML-based approach for maintaining software products of a large-scale industrial product family. It enables software architects to define rules and constraints for a product family architecture to be enforced on individual product architectures. The target system of our study was the Nokia ISA platform for a mobile phone product family, a comple...

The integration of the two recognized network management protocol standards, Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP), and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), and Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) technology, allows management applications to take advantage of distributed object computing as well as the standardized network management protocols. This paper describes ...

This paper addresses the almost never-ending headache the role of documentation has given for software projects. Working software has been given recently a focus over comprehensive documentation, yet the required documents should be authored. This paper “revisits” the approach developed by Nokia improving the documentation work without scarifying the quantity or quality of documentation. The me...

Secure device pairing is especially difficult for spontaneous interaction in ubiquitous computing environments because of wireless communication, lack of powerful user interfaces, and scalability issues. We demonstrate a method to address this problem for small, mobile devices that does not require explicit user interfaces like displays or key pads. By shaking devices together in one hand for a...