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 20041129 Monday November 29, 2004

Upping the bar... codes

Amazon in Japan has enabled cell phones to scan barcodes of products using the camera part of a NTT DoCoMo J2ME enabled cell phone and a special downloaded app. Reading a barcode of an item allows you to bring up info about it in your cell phone app or buy the product directly from Amazon Japan.

See:

Using barcodes in Japan cell phones

J2ME technology could easily be used to do the same thing here in the U.S. Wonder why no one has done it yet...

[Java ME and J2ME] ( November 29, 2004 09:32 AM ) Permalink





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