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Face 2 Face with webinos #2: John Lyle on security
The Face 2 Face with webinos series concentrates on the basics of the project, seeking answers to the fundamental questions that have initiated the project and that keep fueling our developers’ creativity. Secutiry and Privacy are maybe the biggest concerns nowadays. How we solve those issues and what solutions we have so far is the ...
webinos APIs – Implementing the vision of the “digital handshake” for the car
At this year’s Mobile World Congress, Paul Mascarenas, Ford’s Chief Technical Officer, announced the EVOS concept car and spoke about the vision of the Digital handshake for the car when he said that: You expect websites to remember your log in, so what if every car you stepped into could read your mind, completely personalizing ...
Privacy – what happens when ecosystems interact?
On the first day of the Mobile World Congress, we saw an announcement from the GSMA re mobile app privacy. GSMA Announces New Initiative Addressing Mobile App Privacy. Mobile operators in Europe, including Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom – Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telekom Austria Group, Telenor Group, TeliaSonera and Vodafone, are now starting to implement ...
Enabling 3rd party value added services for mobile payments
Webinos is working on enabling a rich ecosystem for 3rd party value added services for mobile payments, through an API that is agnostic with respect to the underlying payment solution. In the absence of of open standards, we are likely to see only weak services for proprietary solutions, e.g. coupons and basic loyalty schemes. A ...
Face 2 Face with webinos #1: Louay Bassbouss on webinos APIs
Research efforts at webinos never cease to push boundaries and cross final frontiers. Thus, with the following series of interviews “Face 2 Face with webinos”, which kicks off right now, we aim to go back to basics and give you a heads up on the basic development of the project. A milestone for our Open Source ...
The right to be forgotten: treating the cause, not the symptoms
The European Commission has recently proposed radical new privacy legislation for providers of online services. Web applications must support a user’s right to be forgotten, by deleting on demand all of the personal information held about them. Companies must also disclose more information about how they store and use personal information, as well as notifying ...
Meet webinos at FOSDEM 2012
Join webinos at this year’s Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) 4-5 February 2012, where Victor Klos from TNO will give a talk “WebApps: webinos, Tying Web Technology to Everything” This talk highlights some unique features of webinos and investigates the role of XMPP for service discovery etc. FOSDEM is the biggest ...
webinos for sensor based scenarios and Smart Cities
Webinos is known to be aimed at delivering an Open Source platform which will enable apps and services to be used and shared constantly over a broad spectrum of connected devices. However, what happens if those devices are sensor based, also known as zero screen? Ajit Jaokar from Open Gardens discusses on their blog the ...
Happy 2012
Midata and my devices
The University of Oxford recently hosted a small workshop on “midata”, the UK Government’s programme to try and give UK consumers better access to the personal data corporations hold about them. The broad aim is to give consumers access to usage data (such as energy and gas bills, phone contracts, credit card statements) in a ...
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