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? Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
DriverInvalidCallException is one of those Microsoft splendid documented classes, that drive a developer mad. How do you like this msdn explanation: “The driver reports that the current method call is invalid.”?! Oh yeah, this is really useful. Read the rest of this entry »
In the USA alibi-agencies exist already for a long time. In Europe they are quite new. Kleinezeitung reports about two online alibi agencies a french one alibila.com and a swiss one alibi-beton.com. Thus you can order a telephone call and if you pay a bit more you get even payment bills, flight or hotel reservations. Read the rest of this entry »
Meet Trackstick! It’s one more funny GPS device with a very little range of features. It looks like usb memory stick and has almost the same size. Trackstick is desiged to be used with Google-Earth. The only thing it can do is just to write down a GPS track and save it as gpx file which can be later watched in Google Earth environment on your computer. So what? Read the rest of this entry »
The first bells are already tolling! The time of mobile ad-hoc networks is coming. The Austrian online newspaper Kleine Zeitung reports about a Swedish compony TerraNet that currently works hard on practical realisation of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN). Ericsson has invested already about 4 mio Euros in this project. Mesh networks are a subtype of Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks that Read the rest of this entry »
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? Read the rest of this entry »