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June 19, 2008 :
Appear to launch its first North American Software Research Labs in collaboration with Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada
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April 15, 2008 :
RED HERRING REVEALS COMPANIES SELECTED FOR THE RED HERRING 100 EUROPE 2008
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April 2, 2008 :
Appear Appoints Aaron Ardiri as Chief Technical Officer
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June 17, 2008 :
Appear’s CEO is a featured guest speaker at the annual SITA Air Transport IT Summit in Brussels
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EU Research Projects
Mobile and wireless communication is playing an ever more increasingly central role in all aspects of business. Europe’s economy will be impacted by the mobile application capability beyond recognition in a few years time. We are in the process of a major shift from the wireless and communication concept of ‘anywhere, anytime’ to a new paradigm of ‘any device, with relevant content and context in a secure and trusted manner’. Many future innovative and technological projects will be based on this growing concept. We know that future systems and applications will be complex, consisting of a multitude of services and network types from Wide Area Networks to Home Networks. The increasing dependency of such communication infrastructures requires new approaches and an emphasis for European research to help overcome technical, business and citizen barriers, in order to remain the leader in mobile and wireless communications.
MUSIC
Self-Adapting Applications for Mobile Users in Ubiquitous Computing Environments.
The MUSIC project is collaboration between fifteen partners from ten European countries. Partners include some of the largest companies in the industry, as well as leading research institutes. Some of the major partners are Hewlett Packard, SINTEF, Telecom Italia, European Media Laboratory, Telefónica I+D and RATP. The goal of the MUSIC project is to supply architecture, design tools and a framework to make it feasible for companies to develop next generation mobile services. Nowadays we see a need to provide a global access to context information regardless of where it is produced. The challenges that need to be solved are latencies, communication cost, intermittent connectivity, and limited battery capacity. Our research is directed to find optimal solutions to those challenges.
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MIDAS
Middleware Platform for Developing and Deploying Advanced Mobile Services
The main objective of MIDAS is to develop a platform with open APIs which will make it possible and economical to develop distributed mobile applications. The MIDAS platform will be used by application developers who want to create mobile applications/services connecting a large number of users. MIDAS will provide necessary basic functionality, which resolves important issues related to connectivity, deployment and information sharing. The distributed architecture used by MIDAS will give opportunities for innovative applications/services, in mobile devices, which ware not possible/feasible prior to MIDAS. These innovative applications/services include client-server and peer-to-peer networks, with or without a connection to Internet. Example applications are mobile service for emergency crews and mobile service at sporting events etc.
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SIMS
Methods and tools for developing Semantic Interfaces for Mobile Services
The main objective of SIMS is to develop a middleware for PDAs/phones, connected using WLAN or GPRS, and to develop design tools based on UML. The design tools will be available as components for the Eclipse platform. These components can by freely used by developers who want to build mobile applications/services using the SIMS-technology. The keyword in the SIMS middleware is the invention of dubbed semantic interfaces, a technology which supports service discovery and composition of services and components (vertical and horizontal composition) at runtime with guaranteed compatibility. Device A will automatically download functionality from Device B if device A supports and needs/wants that functionality. The middleware will validate opportunities between peers. In other words, only valid services/functionality will be available and presented to the end-user. If successful, SIMS will, in a low-level sense, enable learning of functionality.
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“Software is becoming an even more important part of our ‘mobile’ lives. As we move around we are all confronted with the challenging task of keeping up to date and adapting to the changing environments where we may happen to try to maximize the utility provided by our software support systems. The MUSIC platform will make this easier for us all, enabling us to focus on the work as we move around. MUSIC represents a major practical approach to ‘auto’ configuration of software systems. It represents an innovative way to handle unavoidable software system complexity. MUSIC will certainly impact our daily lives in the near future and it will enable us to stay productive while on the move.”
Geir Horn, MUSIC project co-coordinator from SINTEF, a leading research institute in Norway
 MUSIC Project Leaflet
SIMS Project Leaflet
MIDAS Project Leaflet
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