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Camera phones to function as sales assistants
Avery Dennison and Scanbuy, Inc. Introduce Mobile-Merchandising Solution a technology that uses 2D barcode technology to enable camera phones to function as in-store sales assistants. The solution, which will be marketed by Avery Dennison through its worldwide network of service bureaus, ticketing centers and sales offices, connects the company’s line of retail labels with Scanbuy’s ScanLife(TM) [...]
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Wising up to smart phones
With smartphones today, we can check what is on the movies and paying for admission. Looking up maps on the fly to find nearby stores and restaurants. Smartphones come with Internet access and range of clever applications and this is changing the way we shop. The growing popularity of Web-enabled smart phones do far more [...]
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NTT combines Java & RFID, for loyalty cards
NTT Communications has begun trials of a high-tech alternative to loyalty cards that promises to simplify their use. Loyalty cards are big business and are often handed out to customers when they have made a purchase. Consequently, people end up with wallets stuffed with too many cards. When cell phone carriers began rolling out electronic [...]
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Nokia Announces App ‘Smart Store’
Nokia kicks off the 2009 Mobile World Congress in Bacelona with the announcement of the Ovi Store, an application store that blends media with social networking and location-based services, akin to Google’s Latitude application. Ovi already boasts partners such as Facebook, MySpace and game publisher Electronic Arts. Nokia Executive Vice President Tero Ojanperä used a [...]
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SmartStore Helps Mobile Operators
Mobinex, in cooperation with Turkcell Teknoloji, announced SmartStore solution for mobile operators to enable delivery and management of applications on mobile phones. Mobinex and Turkcell Teknoloji combined forces to provide an innovative mobile application storefront technology; SmartStore, which will help operators to increase their revenues from application downloads. The integrated offering will benefit Mobinex’s user [...]
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Shopping with Google Android
ShopSavvy, Barcode Scanner, and CompareEverywhere are three free shopping applications for Google Android poised to help you find the best deals in town and online. At their core, they’re nearly identical, using the phone’s camera to auto-focus on a barcode. That barcode is then matched to a product using an open source decoding library, ZXing, [...]
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