Web TV

Today, the user is usually confronted with a lot of different multimedia- and telecommunication services in his home environment. These services are delivered on different networks, have different user-interfaces, have different billing-systems and are running on different devices. Furthermore, the services are only used separately and can not be combined. Not until these services have uniform user interfaces, one billing-system are delivered on a unified IP-based network, these would not lead to an advantage for the user as well as for the network operators and service providers....

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Mobile Tagging

As the real world becomes closer to Internet world, the real objects also become entities for Internet world. The mobile users can interact with real world objects as if they are on Internet such as fetch related URL’s, information, etc. Other interaction such as sending SMS, email with specific information, buying product, request additional information, seeing related advertisement, reserving tickets are also possible.  Mobile Tagging is the process of providing data on mobile devices, commonly through the use of data (such as a URL) encoded in a computer readable barcode,...

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Augmented Reality

Mobile users get used to use their phones for navigation and location based services. The increasing number of GPS enabled mobile devices, utilize the ability to make use of the geographical position of the mobile device. However finding a specific location by only using maps is still hard to use for most of the people. On the other hand, the users also try to find location specific information about any surrounding that they are currently wandering or any interested area. Augmented Reality (AR) application for mobile users can provide a combined solution for these problems. ...

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Data Augmentation

In the last 50 years Internet and Web have evolved to the current state, and now the next step in Web is anticipated to be the “Network of Data”. Network of data represents the public data in the databases which are related to each other with standard structures. Current web can be named as “Network of Documents” and includes documents published to public, providing links between each other. In “Network of data” case the same structure is replaced with data and again the data is public and provides relation to other data. “Network of Data” is generally named as “LinkedData”. ...

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Google Android Security

Google Android is a smart phone operating system that is gaining more and more popularity. Due to its developer openness, new concepts and approaches can be easily deployed to devices. Additionally, the source code of Android is set open source allowing developers to modify even components of the operating system. Android introduces new security concepts while a full scale audit needs to be made for estimating effectiveness and impact of additional security measures. Knowing about the effectiveness of the security model of Android will allow to design and develop a layered...

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Smart Home Energy Assistant

Energy costs show a constantly rising trend and bind an ever larger part of the available income (e.g: the rise of the fuel oil costs around 100% in approximately 3 years). Therefore measures targeting energy conservation such as commitments for the reduction of the CO2-emissions have a great economical importance. It is important for the acceptance that the housing comfort is not only insignificantly impaired by any economy measures. A self-learning system for energy consumption control replaces the overcome clock-relay based control/regulation, and derives estimations on...

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Smart Personal Assistant

The greatest accomplishment of the Smart Personal Assistant is the fusion of technology from the areas of Semantic Web and Web 2.0, combined with a seamless Integration of the World Wide Web (WWW), resulting in the convergence of Intranet and Internet data and services. The SPA is capable of recognizing the semantic content of external data such as telephone numbers, addresses or hyperlinks at runtime, and thus supports combining this data with all internal services and data. Users accessing the SPA experience a highly simplified service interaction which allows them to use...

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