| Todd Allcock 2007-12-25, 10:33 pm |
| At 25 Dec 2007 20:16:29 +0000 Larry wrote:
> There IS an unholy alliance. http://www.ctia.org/
Gasp! An industry has a lobbying group?
> They do everything they can to make SURE their members are the ONLY link
> you have a choice to use through intensive political action and lobbying
> to stop any initiative that bypasses them and their archaic sell-it-by-
> the-kilobyte bullshit.
What archaic sell-by-the-kb BS would that be? T-Mo's $6-20 unlimited
data? Sprint's $15-40 unlimited data or Cingular's $20-40?
> Take a look at:
> http://www.ctia.org/media/press/body.cfm/prid/1728
> What do you know about using the phone cameras as code scanners?
That it's a useful feature for data entry, particularly on camera-equipped
PDAs? Anyone who's spent $300 on a Compact-Flash based barcode scanner
from Symbol would love an essentially free solution.
> I've
> seen this from them before and I understand other countries already have
> code scanning implemented.
It also makes mobile shopping easier. Remember Barpoint.com? It was an
old WAP service (it used to be on Cingular's WAP deck) that let you enter a
UPC code into the WAP browser and get a Pricegrabber/My Simon-like
price/product info/reviews search. The idea was that entering a 10-12
digit UPC code was easier to enter on a phone keyboard than "Samsung 61"
DLP HDTV."
> Every time I see something about "Scanning" and "Barcodes" these days, I
> wonder what the motivation behind it is,
Um, money? Anything that fcilitates mobile online shopping is good for
carriers/the CTIA.
> ...given the Illuminati government
> has already pass national ID legislation scheduled for 2008. Will we be
> scanning our IDs into some Israeli database to identify ourselves, soon?
I'm sure YOU think so.
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