Friday, May 19, 2006
PC Software for Mobile Phones
First Certified PC Software for Mobile Phones
A series of tests conducted recently on Oxygen Phone Manager confirms excellent performance of the software on Nokia and Samsung phones. Ladofon, an authorized service centre representing both these producers, certified full compliance of Oxygen Phone Manager with declared features. Oxygen Software and Ladofon have agreed on mutual cooperation.
Oxygen Software, the developer of software for mobile phones and smartphones, has become the first company to certify its software with an authorised service centre. A series of tests was performed by the expert panel of Ladofon, the authorised service centre of Nokia and Samsung. The tests showed full compliance of Oxygen Phone Manager with the declared features. The tests also assured the compatibility of Oxygen programs with phone firmware and the safety of use on Nokia and Samsung phones. Oxygen Software and Ladofon are now discussing possible ways of cooperation.
"We hope that the certification of Oxygen Phone Manager by a qualified panel of experts will assure users once again of the highest quality and safety of Oxygen software," says Nike Golubev, PRO at Oxygen Software. "In the global software market consumers often find themselves under the deluge of claims that can lack foundation. At Oxygen Software we feel pride in our products and honestly believe that they serve the best interests of users. We want our customers to be as sure as we are of the quality of their software."
Oxygen Software has long been known for an innovative approach to software development and marketing. It was one of the first to offer interactive management of mobile phone contents. The idea of turning a personal computer into a console for texting, dialling and accessing contacts was just what users needed at the time. That explains the unprecedented rise in sales that the company continues to enjoy and a large number of commercial partners it has. Forensic mode of accessing phone contents was another step in the right direction. Software that can manage the contents on a PC while keeping it intact on the phone itself met the demands of police departments. It now helps maintain peace and order in different parts of the world. Now Oxygen Software has become the first to offer certified quality software to their customers worldwide. It all demonstrates the company's deep understanding of user needs and the ability to satisfy them.
Oxygen Phone Manager II is a flagship of the company's product line. It has versions for both Symbian smartphones and mobile phones. The program backs up, synchronises and manages all the data types available in modern phone models. Its list of manageable features covers everything from the phonebook and calendar items to FM radio and GPRS settings. The widest range of supported models allows moving the settings and content between them with just several mouse clicks. Oxygen Phone Manager II will automatically detect your model and choose an appropriate data format. With its unique ad-hoc editing you can make the most of the rich multimedia features of your phone. No less important is the program's backup system, which saves phone contents to a hard drive and protects them with a password. It is exactly for this rich functionality and the unparalleled ease of use that home and professional users alike prefer Oxygen Phone Manager.
Oxygen Phone Manager Features at a Glance:
- Support for about 200 models of mobile phones and smartphones;
- upport for IrDA, Bluetooth, and cable connectivity (USB and serial port);
- Interactive access and management of contacts, calendar entries, gallery entries, connectivity logs, profiles, FM radio, GPRS and WAP settings, voice records and more;
- Backup of all data and settings to a hard drive;
- Direct dialup and message input from PC;
- Support for all multimedia formats, including images, video and voice records, melodies, ringtones, Java applications and games, etc.;
- Localization for European and Arabic languages.
Pricing and Availability
Oxygen Phone Manager II runs under Windows 2000 /XP /2003 Server platforms. The program is available under individual, family and business licenses. An individual license costs 29 EUR (35 USD), family and business licenses are priced respectively at 49 EUR (60 USD) and 69 EUR (84 USD). There is also Lite Edition of the program with core functionality. It is available at 14.95 EUR (18 USD). All registered users are entitled to free technical support and a yearly subscription to program updates. An evaluation version of the program is available for download at page http://www.oxygensoftware.com/download/ .
About Oxygen Software Ltd.
Oxygen Software Ltd. has been developing utilities for mobile phones and smartphones since 2001. Its products serve both individual and professional users around the world. Police departments in Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland and other countries employ Oxygen software in their forensic activities. In addition to consumer and professional utilities, Oxygen Software offers a range of components for software developers. For more information about Oxygen Software and its products, please visit the official website at http://www.oxygensoftware.com.
A series of tests conducted recently on Oxygen Phone Manager confirms excellent performance of the software on Nokia and Samsung phones. Ladofon, an authorized service centre representing both these producers, certified full compliance of Oxygen Phone Manager with declared features. Oxygen Software and Ladofon have agreed on mutual cooperation.
Oxygen Software, the developer of software for mobile phones and smartphones, has become the first company to certify its software with an authorised service centre. A series of tests was performed by the expert panel of Ladofon, the authorised service centre of Nokia and Samsung. The tests showed full compliance of Oxygen Phone Manager with the declared features. The tests also assured the compatibility of Oxygen programs with phone firmware and the safety of use on Nokia and Samsung phones. Oxygen Software and Ladofon are now discussing possible ways of cooperation.
"We hope that the certification of Oxygen Phone Manager by a qualified panel of experts will assure users once again of the highest quality and safety of Oxygen software," says Nike Golubev, PRO at Oxygen Software. "In the global software market consumers often find themselves under the deluge of claims that can lack foundation. At Oxygen Software we feel pride in our products and honestly believe that they serve the best interests of users. We want our customers to be as sure as we are of the quality of their software."
Oxygen Software has long been known for an innovative approach to software development and marketing. It was one of the first to offer interactive management of mobile phone contents. The idea of turning a personal computer into a console for texting, dialling and accessing contacts was just what users needed at the time. That explains the unprecedented rise in sales that the company continues to enjoy and a large number of commercial partners it has. Forensic mode of accessing phone contents was another step in the right direction. Software that can manage the contents on a PC while keeping it intact on the phone itself met the demands of police departments. It now helps maintain peace and order in different parts of the world. Now Oxygen Software has become the first to offer certified quality software to their customers worldwide. It all demonstrates the company's deep understanding of user needs and the ability to satisfy them.
Oxygen Phone Manager II is a flagship of the company's product line. It has versions for both Symbian smartphones and mobile phones. The program backs up, synchronises and manages all the data types available in modern phone models. Its list of manageable features covers everything from the phonebook and calendar items to FM radio and GPRS settings. The widest range of supported models allows moving the settings and content between them with just several mouse clicks. Oxygen Phone Manager II will automatically detect your model and choose an appropriate data format. With its unique ad-hoc editing you can make the most of the rich multimedia features of your phone. No less important is the program's backup system, which saves phone contents to a hard drive and protects them with a password. It is exactly for this rich functionality and the unparalleled ease of use that home and professional users alike prefer Oxygen Phone Manager.
Oxygen Phone Manager Features at a Glance:
- Support for about 200 models of mobile phones and smartphones;
- upport for IrDA, Bluetooth, and cable connectivity (USB and serial port);
- Interactive access and management of contacts, calendar entries, gallery entries, connectivity logs, profiles, FM radio, GPRS and WAP settings, voice records and more;
- Backup of all data and settings to a hard drive;
- Direct dialup and message input from PC;
- Support for all multimedia formats, including images, video and voice records, melodies, ringtones, Java applications and games, etc.;
- Localization for European and Arabic languages.
Pricing and Availability
Oxygen Phone Manager II runs under Windows 2000 /XP /2003 Server platforms. The program is available under individual, family and business licenses. An individual license costs 29 EUR (35 USD), family and business licenses are priced respectively at 49 EUR (60 USD) and 69 EUR (84 USD). There is also Lite Edition of the program with core functionality. It is available at 14.95 EUR (18 USD). All registered users are entitled to free technical support and a yearly subscription to program updates. An evaluation version of the program is available for download at page http://www.oxygensoftware.com/download/ .
About Oxygen Software Ltd.
Oxygen Software Ltd. has been developing utilities for mobile phones and smartphones since 2001. Its products serve both individual and professional users around the world. Police departments in Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland and other countries employ Oxygen software in their forensic activities. In addition to consumer and professional utilities, Oxygen Software offers a range of components for software developers. For more information about Oxygen Software and its products, please visit the official website at http://www.oxygensoftware.com.
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
RSS Guru with iTunes
New RSS Editor Makes Anyone RSS Guru! Now with iTunes!
ExtraLabs Software unveils Feed Editor 3.7, a fully-fledged RSS editor that offers you an easy way to create and maintain RSS feeds and podcasts.
ExtraLabs Software today announces the release of Feed Editor 3.7. Designed for the Windows OS, this application enables you to create, edit and publish RSS feeds and podcasts surprisingly fast and easy. Compared to other RSS editors in its category, Feed Editor combines an unprecedented number of features, including a support for various RSS formats, a podcasting support, iTunes support, a WYSIWYG HTML editor, an XML editor, an RSS Feed preview, an FTP upload and publishing, automatic date management, and an ability to convert CSV or HTML to RSS and back and others. All this is delivered in an intuitively transparent user interface that has been meticulously written in collaboration with usability groups and real end users.
Feed Editor can create and maintain an unlimited number of RSS feeds and podcasts, thus letting you maintain and distribute multiple content streams simultaneously. The best thing is that the program makes it downright simple. To create a new RSS feed, you can use a New Feed Creation wizard. It will guide you through the RSS setup process in a step by step fashion, delivering ease of use and conformance to specifications. Additional convenience comes with a built-in WYSIWIG HTML editor that allows you to edit a feed in much the same way as you would edit a word processing document. You can format the text, apply styling, and insert images and hyperlinks. Also, "Feed Editor" can generate a feed from a CSV and HTML file. Once a feed is ready, you can preview it and publish online using an FTP upload facility.
Read more about Feed Editor at http://www.extralabs.net/feed-editor.htm
Download an evaluation version to try it for free http://www.extralabs.net/FeedEditorSetup.exe
Feed Editor Pricing and Availability
Feed Editor 3.7 runs under Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT/XP/2003 and costs $39.95 (USD). Registered customers are entitled to free lifetime updates and premium technical support. Discounts for volume buyers are available. Additional information on Feed Editor 3.7, as well as its 30-day evaluation version is available from http://www.extralabs.net.
About ExtraLabs Software
ExtraLabs Software specializes in the development of RSS and image-processing software. The company was founded in 2002 by a team of Russian software engineers. ExtraLabs Software is the author of such products as "Feed Mix", an RSS reader with the editing ability; "Feed Editor", a fully-fledged RSS and podcast editor; "RSS Wizard", an HTML to RSS converter, "RSS Publisher", a free tool for publishing RSS Feeds, "Feed2Html", a free PHP script that converts data from RSS to HTML, and "Image Assistant", a tool for batch-mode image processing. For more information, please visit http://www.extralabs.net.
ExtraLabs Software unveils Feed Editor 3.7, a fully-fledged RSS editor that offers you an easy way to create and maintain RSS feeds and podcasts.
ExtraLabs Software today announces the release of Feed Editor 3.7. Designed for the Windows OS, this application enables you to create, edit and publish RSS feeds and podcasts surprisingly fast and easy. Compared to other RSS editors in its category, Feed Editor combines an unprecedented number of features, including a support for various RSS formats, a podcasting support, iTunes support, a WYSIWYG HTML editor, an XML editor, an RSS Feed preview, an FTP upload and publishing, automatic date management, and an ability to convert CSV or HTML to RSS and back and others. All this is delivered in an intuitively transparent user interface that has been meticulously written in collaboration with usability groups and real end users.
Feed Editor can create and maintain an unlimited number of RSS feeds and podcasts, thus letting you maintain and distribute multiple content streams simultaneously. The best thing is that the program makes it downright simple. To create a new RSS feed, you can use a New Feed Creation wizard. It will guide you through the RSS setup process in a step by step fashion, delivering ease of use and conformance to specifications. Additional convenience comes with a built-in WYSIWIG HTML editor that allows you to edit a feed in much the same way as you would edit a word processing document. You can format the text, apply styling, and insert images and hyperlinks. Also, "Feed Editor" can generate a feed from a CSV and HTML file. Once a feed is ready, you can preview it and publish online using an FTP upload facility.
Read more about Feed Editor at http://www.extralabs.net/feed-editor.htm
Download an evaluation version to try it for free http://www.extralabs.net/FeedEditorSetup.exe
Feed Editor Pricing and Availability
Feed Editor 3.7 runs under Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT/XP/2003 and costs $39.95 (USD). Registered customers are entitled to free lifetime updates and premium technical support. Discounts for volume buyers are available. Additional information on Feed Editor 3.7, as well as its 30-day evaluation version is available from http://www.extralabs.net.
About ExtraLabs Software
ExtraLabs Software specializes in the development of RSS and image-processing software. The company was founded in 2002 by a team of Russian software engineers. ExtraLabs Software is the author of such products as "Feed Mix", an RSS reader with the editing ability; "Feed Editor", a fully-fledged RSS and podcast editor; "RSS Wizard", an HTML to RSS converter, "RSS Publisher", a free tool for publishing RSS Feeds, "Feed2Html", a free PHP script that converts data from RSS to HTML, and "Image Assistant", a tool for batch-mode image processing. For more information, please visit http://www.extralabs.net.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
SEBIZ 2006
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***
CALL FOR PAPERS
SEBIZ 2006
http://www.ag-nbi.de/conf/SEBIZ06
November 6, 20006
1st international workshop
APPLICATIONS AND BUSINESS ASPECTS OF THE
SEMANTIC WEB
at ISWC 2006
5th Int. Semantic Web Conference
November 5 - 9, 2006 Athens, Georgia, USA
****************************************************************************
***
Within the past five years, the Semantic Web research community has
brought to maturity a comprehensive set of foundational technology
components, and this both at the conceptual level and in the form of
prototypes and software. However, in order for these research
achievements to materialize into large scale corporate applications,
they must be complemented by prototypes, methods, and best practices
which support enterprises in the adoption of Semantic Web
technology. This includes:
** Convincing showcases and proofs-of-concept that demonstrate the
technical feasibility in relevant business scenarios.
** Methods to assess the costs and business value of semantic
technology; in particular, such that help estimate the costs
involved in the development and usage of ontologies, and to quantify
the operational and strategic benefits of ontology-based systems.
** Metrics to evaluate and compare existing ontologies, ontology
engineering methodologies, and tools in terms of technical quality
and organizational fit. This includes metrics to determine the
usability of a particular ontology in a specific business scenario.
** Means to monitor the quality of ontology development and deployment
processes.
The availability of best practices, convincing showcases, and
quantitative and qualitative metrics that help manage the various
stages of building ontologies and ontology-based systems will be
important catalysts for disseminating Semantic Web research into
enterprise applications.
*******************************************************
CALL FOR PAPERS
*******************************************************
We invite original research papers and project
reports from academia and industry that address any of the above
mentioned aspects of Semantic Web technology in business
applications.
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Best practices and use cases of semantic technology in enterprise
applications, e.g.,
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- Business Intelligence (BI)
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Decision Support Systems
- Ontology-based content integration tasks in business and public
sector applications (catalog data integration, spend analysis); and
- Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).
* Methods to assess the costs and business value of semantic
technology, in particular
- Methods to monitor the costs associated with the development and
usage of ontologies
- Methods to estimate the total costs of ontology ownership; and
- Methods that help e quantify the business value, in the sense of
operational and strategic benefits, of ontology-based systems in
organizations.
* Methods for evaluating ontologies and monitoring ontology
development on a technical level, e.g.
- Metrics to evaluate and compare existing ontologies, ontology
engineering methodologies, and tools in terms of technical quality
and organizational fit
- Metrics to determine the usability of a particular ontology in a
specific business scenario
- Methods to measure the interdependencies among ontologies and
organizational processes; and
- Quality frameworks for ontologies, ontology engineering
methodologies, methods and tools.
Especially welcome will be papers that integrate the various aspects
of the enumerated problems.
*******************************************************
IMPORTANT DATES
*******************************************************
June 30, 2006 Abstract submissions due
July 7, 2006 Paper submissions due
August 31, 2006 Acceptance notification
September 18, 2006 Camera-ready papers due
October 6, 2006 Electronic version of the proceedings available
November 6, 2006 Workshop at the ISWC2006
*******************************************************
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
*******************************************************
We invite submissions of short or full
papers reflecting both research in progress and validated results
that address any relevant dimension of the problem. All papers will
be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee.
Papers should be formatted in Springer LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and submitted as PDF
documents. Full papers should be 15 pages, short papers should be up
to 8 pages.
Submission of papers will take place electronically at
http://conference.ag-nbi.de/sebiz06
For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the
workshop in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to
be scheduled in the workshop program. Accepted papers will be
published online at CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
*******************************************************
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
*******************************************************
Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Martin Hepp, University of Innsbruck, Semantics in Business Information
Systems, Austria
Sang-goo Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Christoph Tempich, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
*******************************************************
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
*******************************************************
Alain Leger (France Telecom)
Chris Bizer (Free University of Berlin)
Chris Bussler (Cisco)
Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck)
Doug Foxvog (National University of Ireland Galway)
John Domingue (Open University)
Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento)
John Davies (BT)
Jorge Cardoso (University of Madeira)
Jos de Bruijn (University of Innsbruck)
Juhnyoung Lee (IBM Research)
Michel Klein (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Miltiadis Lystras (Athens University of Economics & Business)
Oscar Corcho (University of Manchester)
Richard Benjamins (iSOCO)
Robert Tolksdorf (Free University of Berlin)
Tommaso Di Noia (Politecnico di Bari)
York Sure (University of Karlsruhe)
Yuxiao Zhao (Linköping University)
*******************************************************
SUPPORT
*******************************************************
The event is supported by the EU funded Network of
Excellence KnowledgeWeb - Realizing the Semantic Web.
***
CALL FOR PAPERS
SEBIZ 2006
http://www.ag-nbi.de/conf/SEBIZ06
November 6, 20006
1st international workshop
APPLICATIONS AND BUSINESS ASPECTS OF THE
SEMANTIC WEB
at ISWC 2006
5th Int. Semantic Web Conference
November 5 - 9, 2006 Athens, Georgia, USA
****************************************************************************
***
Within the past five years, the Semantic Web research community has
brought to maturity a comprehensive set of foundational technology
components, and this both at the conceptual level and in the form of
prototypes and software. However, in order for these research
achievements to materialize into large scale corporate applications,
they must be complemented by prototypes, methods, and best practices
which support enterprises in the adoption of Semantic Web
technology. This includes:
** Convincing showcases and proofs-of-concept that demonstrate the
technical feasibility in relevant business scenarios.
** Methods to assess the costs and business value of semantic
technology; in particular, such that help estimate the costs
involved in the development and usage of ontologies, and to quantify
the operational and strategic benefits of ontology-based systems.
** Metrics to evaluate and compare existing ontologies, ontology
engineering methodologies, and tools in terms of technical quality
and organizational fit. This includes metrics to determine the
usability of a particular ontology in a specific business scenario.
** Means to monitor the quality of ontology development and deployment
processes.
The availability of best practices, convincing showcases, and
quantitative and qualitative metrics that help manage the various
stages of building ontologies and ontology-based systems will be
important catalysts for disseminating Semantic Web research into
enterprise applications.
*******************************************************
CALL FOR PAPERS
*******************************************************
We invite original research papers and project
reports from academia and industry that address any of the above
mentioned aspects of Semantic Web technology in business
applications.
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Best practices and use cases of semantic technology in enterprise
applications, e.g.,
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- Business Intelligence (BI)
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Decision Support Systems
- Ontology-based content integration tasks in business and public
sector applications (catalog data integration, spend analysis); and
- Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).
* Methods to assess the costs and business value of semantic
technology, in particular
- Methods to monitor the costs associated with the development and
usage of ontologies
- Methods to estimate the total costs of ontology ownership; and
- Methods that help e quantify the business value, in the sense of
operational and strategic benefits, of ontology-based systems in
organizations.
* Methods for evaluating ontologies and monitoring ontology
development on a technical level, e.g.
- Metrics to evaluate and compare existing ontologies, ontology
engineering methodologies, and tools in terms of technical quality
and organizational fit
- Metrics to determine the usability of a particular ontology in a
specific business scenario
- Methods to measure the interdependencies among ontologies and
organizational processes; and
- Quality frameworks for ontologies, ontology engineering
methodologies, methods and tools.
Especially welcome will be papers that integrate the various aspects
of the enumerated problems.
*******************************************************
IMPORTANT DATES
*******************************************************
June 30, 2006 Abstract submissions due
July 7, 2006 Paper submissions due
August 31, 2006 Acceptance notification
September 18, 2006 Camera-ready papers due
October 6, 2006 Electronic version of the proceedings available
November 6, 2006 Workshop at the ISWC2006
*******************************************************
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
*******************************************************
We invite submissions of short or full
papers reflecting both research in progress and validated results
that address any relevant dimension of the problem. All papers will
be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee.
Papers should be formatted in Springer LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and submitted as PDF
documents. Full papers should be 15 pages, short papers should be up
to 8 pages.
Submission of papers will take place electronically at
http://conference.ag-nbi.de/sebiz06
For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the
workshop in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to
be scheduled in the workshop program. Accepted papers will be
published online at CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
*******************************************************
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
*******************************************************
Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Martin Hepp, University of Innsbruck, Semantics in Business Information
Systems, Austria
Sang-goo Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Christoph Tempich, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
*******************************************************
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
*******************************************************
Alain Leger (France Telecom)
Chris Bizer (Free University of Berlin)
Chris Bussler (Cisco)
Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck)
Doug Foxvog (National University of Ireland Galway)
John Domingue (Open University)
Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento)
John Davies (BT)
Jorge Cardoso (University of Madeira)
Jos de Bruijn (University of Innsbruck)
Juhnyoung Lee (IBM Research)
Michel Klein (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Miltiadis Lystras (Athens University of Economics & Business)
Oscar Corcho (University of Manchester)
Richard Benjamins (iSOCO)
Robert Tolksdorf (Free University of Berlin)
Tommaso Di Noia (Politecnico di Bari)
York Sure (University of Karlsruhe)
Yuxiao Zhao (Linköping University)
*******************************************************
SUPPORT
*******************************************************
The event is supported by the EU funded Network of
Excellence KnowledgeWeb - Realizing the Semantic Web.
