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How to get your thesis topic started

Submitted by Rainhard Findling on Tue, 2013-12-17 14:56

Students often struggle to get their thesis topic started properly, because they simply don't know how to start at all. In the end students may find that they have missed and left out major areas which would be in their topic's focus. Correcting these issues regularly leaves students with a very huge amount of extra work...

Dr. Bulling talks on Pervasive Eye-Based Human-Computer Interfaces

Submitted by Rainhard Findling on Thu, 2013-12-12 12:24

Dr. Anreas Bulling (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland, Germany) will give a guest talk about "Pervasive Eye-Based Human-Computer Interfaces" on the 8. of January 2014 at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, School of Informatics, Communications & Media, Hagenberg Campus. The event is free and open to the public, no registration required!

UICC access with SEEK in CyanogenMod on Galaxy S2/S3

Submitted by Michael Roland on Tue, 2013-09-10 15:47

In our last blog post, we analyzed the RIL commands for APDU-based access to the UICC on Samsung's Galaxy S3 and provided some first details on how we implemented this functionality in our SuperNexus-based SuperSmile Android ROM. Now we want to go a step further and provide step-by-step instructions on how to integrate this functionality into CyanogenMod for Samsung's Galaxy S2 and Galaxy S3 (and possibly other devices based on Exynos 4).

SEEK adaptations in RIL for Galaxy S3

Submitted by Michael Hölzl on Thu, 2013-08-22 15:04

The project seek-for-android aims to add APIs for Android to communicate with secure elements regardless of their form-factor (e.g. UICC, SD card or embedded SE). The SEEK team published patches for AOSP that influence the telephony framework, the ASSD kernel and the NFC framework. Based on those changes the SmartCard API gives developers the possibility to develop security feature enhanced applications that make use of a secure element.

Reference exporter: Jabref to RTF (Microsoft Word)

Submitted by Rainhard Findling on Tue, 2013-08-13 17:05

If you need to use references in MS-Word, but usually work with Jabref and want to keep your references stored in a single place, you can use the Jabref to RTF export functionality shipped with Jabref.

Latest futurezone report

Submitted by Michael Hölzl on Wed, 2013-08-07 11:50

Check out the latest report about our research center at futurezone (in German):

http://futurezone.at/future/16894-fh-hagenberg-forscht-zu-smartphone-sicherheit.php

How to build AOSP Kernel for Galaxy Nexus

Submitted by Michael Hölzl on Thu, 2013-08-01 15:59

Building an AOSP Kernel Galaxy Nexus GT-I9520 Version 4.2.2

Generate Folder:

generate a folder of you choice on your file system. In This case it is KERNEL_AOSP

Download Sources:

switch into the KERNEL_AOSP folder

Official introduction of u'smile

Submitted by Michael Hölzl on Tue, 2013-06-25 12:09

Last week on Friday we had the official introduction event of our research center. Together with several representatives from politics, business and science we discussed about the future of mobile phones and the importance of user-friendly security functionalities.

More information about the successful event in official press releases:

How to flash SuperSmile

Submitted by Michael Hölzl on Mon, 2013-05-06 16:45

This is a tutorial on how to install our SuperSmile ROM to your Android device. You can find the ROM for all supported devices (currently S2 and S3) in the downloads section.

How to build SuperNexus for Galaxy S3 on Linux

Submitted by Michael Hölzl on Wed, 2013-03-20 10:04

SuperNexus is a project that focusses on providing Google Nexus experience on Samsung devices. The ROM is based on AOSP code with slight improvements and optimizations (e.g. battery life time). It is great ROM if you want the basic Google layout without modifications from the operator or manufacturer on your mobile phone.

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