Today I had a pleasure to test Trimble Nomad handheld. What a great device! Well, maybe not for every day life and not for a usual user, for its size reminds a one more on a yellow brick than on a pocket pc. And the toy is not that chip, its prise varies between 1,500$ and 2500$… But it’s a real dream for a software developer! 806 MHz processor, 128 RAM, 480×640 resolution, isn’t it great?
It’s been really a while since I’ve last posted something to my blog. In all this time many things occured. After almost 4 years of my activity at the research institute of Fraunhofer (ISST in Dortmund), I changed the place of my work. Now I am at GeoMobile, a very young compony which is only 1 week old 
Our compony counts three men. I say “our” because we are partners and participators. What shall we do? (more…)
Voilà! Today I found a regional newspaper article about our last ERIGG test in a little German town Barlo, situated near the dutch boarder. ERIGG is large project comprising an online tour planning and a navigation system for bicycle tourists and involving the cooperation of our research institute (Fraunhofer ISST in Dortmund), University of Bonn, GDS GeoDatenService GmbH and Stadtmarketing-Gesellschaft Bocholt. (more…)
The potential of USB usage ranges much beyond memorry sticks, hard drives, keyboards, joysticks etc. The guys at Usb.brando.com.hk show another perspective and explore new ways of using USB facilities. How do you like their drink fridge? (more…)
On the corporative blog of a friend of mine I saw a link to a curious online resource. ProgrammableWeb is a website containing a kind of a directory for Mashups. For those readers who never head or don’t quite understand the meaning of this term, I give a brief explanation. A Mashup is a website that uses (more…)
Tomorrow(the 30-th of June) is the last day when you can register an .EU-Domain name at United-Domains just for 1 Euro. It is allowed to register only 10 Domains per person. There are about 2,6 million .eu domain names at the current moment. In comparison to other domains the chance to find a good domain name is very high. Hurry up!
During the lunchbreak I came across an interesting article in the internet. Nokia is going to launch next year an advertising service Point&Find. This service is based on the pattern-recognition technology. (more…)