About the Authors

Michael Aubert

Michael has worked on Symbian OS for 7 years, in the Java team at Symbian itself and the R&D team at iAnywhere. During that time, he has received in-depth exposure to a wide range of technologies including telephony, messaging, 3D graphics, networking, multimedia, PIM, cryptography, platform security and software deployment.

He holds an MSc in Software Engineering from E.S.I.A.L. and is probably the only person to have ever explained the crazy Java Team Event Server Framework to a French audience.

Alexey Gusev

Alexey started to play with mainframes at the end of the 1980s, using Pascal and REXX, but soon switched to C/C++ and Java on different platforms before moving into mobile technologies. After working for almost a decade as a team leader and architect on Windows Mobile, he decided to join the Symbian Core Development team, originally working on Security and later on USB.

He holds an MSc in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He is also an Accredited Symbian Developer and regular author at www.developer.com.

Tanzim Husain

Tanzim joined Symbian in 2004 as a member of the networking technology team and has worked there ever since, surviving two architectural changes and three team re-organizations. Before joining Symbian, he worked extensively on Windows Mobile, delivering pioneering applications in the areas of mapping and GIS.

Tanzim holds a B.S. in Computer Science from NSU. Outside work, he likes to ...

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