Blown To Bits

Geolocation+BarCode Scanning = Killer Cell Phone App?

Monday, September 29th, 2008 by Harry Lewis
Studies purchase cheapest diflucan delivery have found that although CD8+ T cells are important defenders prescription discount buy online info against cancer, long-term exposure to tumor-related antigens may cause genetic free buy online order changes in the cells. The cells do not die off cheap buy internet as they should to allow the body to return to griseofulvin purchase a healthy state and for other types of blood cells purchase zithromax online to proliferate. Induction refers to the first use of a buy compazine without prescription treatment, such as Blincyto, to attack cancer cells.* Consolidation refers cheap griseofulvin to treatment given after induction to eliminate any cancer cells order mirapex that may remain. The number of Blincyto cycles you'll receive buy price depends on your treatment plan and how your body responds to.

In a piece we published in May, we noted:

[Geolocation] data would be a goldmine for advertisers targeting their ads at cell phones — they would love to know not only who you are, but where you are. And it would be a boon for shoppers, too — imagine being able to ask, when Nordstrom’s doesn’t have your favorite stockings in your size, if any nearby store has them in stock.

But to do that, you’d have to have enough information about what you were looking for to type in the identifying information, or else spend time Web browsing, a clumsy process on a cell phone. Not very realistic as we described it.

A Japanese company has an application for Google’s new phone that does something similar to what we had in mind, but much more practical and more widely useful. You see the stockings in the store, whip out your phone, and point the camera at the bar code on the package. The camera doesn’t actually photograph the bar code; it reads it, and then gives you back a list of nearby stores with the same item, and what they are charging for it.

Brilliant. If I were running a fancy department store with high ceilings and high overhead, I’d be shaking in my shoes at the prospect of people using my nice premises for shopping, and discount stores for buying.

More on retail applications of bar code scanning by cell phone in this article by Erik Hermansen.

Comments are closed.