Iphone 1.1.3 HW unlock

At http://ourphone.blogspot.com/2008/01/iphone-113-hardware-unlock.html they got good news on iPhone 1.1.3 unlocking…

the first HW unlock is available… Here follows a copy of the post: 

 
The first Hardware unlock for the iPhone 1.1.3 has been done in Vietnam.
The Status of the project is the following:

  • Unlock the iPhone with firmware 1.1.3 (baseband 4.03.13)
  • Downgrade the phone to 1.1.2 then jailbreak it for normally using.
  • Phone will work at: firmware 1.1.2 and baseband 4.03.13.

This ist pretty amazing news and will hopefully provide some progress in the software 1.1.3 unlock. We´ll keep you informed.


 

… and continues rough…

… did i ever wrote about how i love my dad’s driving on the snow… well my daddy was amazing.. have you ever seen the movie “Driver”… eh, not real pros…  So driving at the bound of wheels grip on the snowy ground we hit the road targetting the British Check-In at Linate airport… usually the distance is 1h with no traffic and normal ground… we got snow and the beginning of morning traffic in highway Tangenziale Est (for the one who know what it is the name sounds scary!)…

 Well we finally get to Linate (i made him miss the exit, but that’s just to had suspence) in probably 40 minutes… seconds from the end of the Check-In i get there… check-in (last person before they closed!!)… WOW!!! i made it!!! So let’s run to the gate… security-friendly dressing and skilled traveler techniques made my way very fast… And comfortably sit in the airplane… 

Captain inform us that we will be delayed because of the snow of 5 minutes… 15 minutes… 45 minutes… 1h.. 1:30… 1:45… 2h… Everyone is going crazy, tons of connections flight lost… I look like a Buddah… from now on, British is going to take care of my life… i don’t mind sleeping in london even 2 days… 🙂 

I get to London about 1:40 after my connection (nice!)… run to the desk… they tell me i can make it on the next flight, if i run!! Well i’m a pro in airport running… i take the chance… run like hell through the airport… and get to the gate…

They call my name… now what? nothing double checking… call my name again.. nothing triple checking… Boarding… I ask the lady about my Luggage… she answer after checking on the terminal “nice and easy sir, your baggage flies with you…”… Doubtfully I thank the lady… But surprise surprise i get selected for the random security inspection!!! YAHOOO!!!! and…. (to be continued)

 

When things just start wrong!!

I’m flying back to L.A. from Milan… Milan has two main airport:
malpensa MXP and Linate LIN… Most of the international flights
depart from MXP… My flight is at 7:50, since I don’t like to be in a
rush and to work on by jetlag I decide not to sleep and to be at the
airport about 3 hours in advance. Today a heavy snow is falling from
the sky, so I leave even earlier and get to the MXP airport almost
4hours before my flight.. My parents and a friend kindly wait
chitchatting with me… The check in stays close longer than usual and
opens only 1hour and 45 minutes before the flight… Smiling I turn
in my ticket to the policeman at the per-checkin security… The guy
says “I’ve got bad news sir. Your flight leaves from Linate airport,
not from here”…. Silclence, panic, watch, panic again, math.. RUN!!!
My dad jump in the car and… (to be continued!)

English practice, hi-tech podcast and iTunes-U

For all the italian reader a good way to practice your listening is listen to Podcast. For Geek / Computer Science People the podcast This Week In Tech (TWiT) is a nice way to be up dated by a bunch of funny guys. The show hosted by Leo Laporte approaches the Hi Tech Web news from a management/technical point of view. Very nice! you can find it here: http://leo.am/podcasts/twit

Even more interesting is via iTunes U  the chance to access podcast of the lessons of some of the greatest american Universities such as Berkley, Stanford, Yale, Princeton… So good english AND 100% guaranteed technical content. Enjoy it!! 

   

 

2007 (Extended Abtract) Context-aware views for mobile users

“Context-aware views for mobile users” Cristiana Bolchini, Carlo A. Curino, Giorgio Orsi, Elisa Quintarelli, Rosalba Rossato, Fabio A. Schreiber and Letizia Tanca, (Extended Abstract) 10th DELOS Thematic Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Digital Libraries (PERSDL 2007)

ABSTRACT:

Independent, heterogeneous, distributed, sometimes tran-
sient and mobile data sources produce an enormous
amount of information that should be semantically inte-
grated and filtered, or, as we say, tailored, based on the
users’ interests and context. We propose to exploit knowl-
edge about the user, the adopted device, and the environ-
ment – altogether called context – to the end of informa-
tion tailoring. This paper presents the Context Dimension
Tree, a context model which is the basis for solving the
information tailoring problem, along with its role in the
framework of the Context-ADDICT architecture.

 

2007 Emergent Semantics and Cooperation in MultiKnowledge Environments: the ESTEEM Architecture.

“Emergent Semantics and Cooperation in MultiKnowledge Environments: the ESTEEM Architecture.” Esteem Team. In Proc. of the VLDB Int. Workshop on Semantic Data and Service Integration (SDSI 2007), Vienna, Austria, 2007.

 ABSTRACT:

 In the present global society, information has to be exchange-
able in open and dynamic environments, where interacting
peers do not necessarily share a common understanding of
the world at hand, and do not have a complete picture of
the context where the interaction occurs. In this paper, we
present the Esteem approach and the related peer archi-
tecture for emergent semantics in dynamic and multi-know-
ledge environments. In Esteem, semantic communities are
built around declared interests in the form of manifesto on-
tologies, and their autonomous nature is preserved by al-
lowing a shared semantics to naturally emerge from peer
interactions.

 

2006 (Extended Abstract): Context Integration for Mobile Data Tailoring

2006 “Context Integration for Mobile Data Tailoring” (Extended Abstract) Cristiana Bolchini, Carlo A. Curino, Fabio A. Schreiber, Letizia Tanca, Proceedings of the Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD) 2006

 

ABSTRACT:

Independent, heterogeneous, distributed, sometimes transient and mobile data sources produce an enormous amount of information that should be semantically integrated and filtered, or, as we say, tailored, based on the user’s interests and context. Since both the user and the data sources can be mobile, and the communication might be unreliable, caching the information on the user device may become really useful. Therefore new challenges have to be faced such as: data filtering in a context-aware fashion, integration of not-known-in-advance data sources, automatic extraction of the semantics. We propose a novel system named Context-ADDICT (Context-Aware Data Design, Integration, Customization and Tailoring) able to deal with the described scenario. The system we are designing aims at tailoring the available information to the needs of the current user in the current context, in order to offer a more manageable amount of information; such information is to be cached on the user’s device according to policies defined at design-time, to cope with data source transiency. This paper focuses on the information representation and tailoring problem and on the definition of the global architecture of the system.

 

BIBTEX:

@inproceedings{MDM2006,

author = {Cristiana Bolchini and Carlo Curino and Fabio A. Schreiber and Letizia Tanca}, 
Booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/ACM of Int. Conf. on Mobile Data Management}, 
Keywords = {Contex-ADDICT scenario and architecture}, 
Location = {Nara, Japan}, 
Month = {May}, 
Organization = {IEEE, ACM}, 
Title = {Context integration for mobile data tailoring}, 
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2006.52}, 
pdf = {mdm2006.pdf}, 
Year = {2006}

}