See also : Kaywa Reader in action
Video 1: Magazine with QR Code, Mobile Phone
Video 2: Stamp, QR Code, Mobile Phone

Colette.TV



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The famous Colette store in Paris has started a mobile site for it's japanese fans. This is highly understandable as the Colette-Japan connection works also the other way (more on Rinko here).

When do others understand, that they now can reach their japanese customers the easy way:)

Via Smoothplanet and La Rivière

Now you can go shopping with your mobile phone

Within 12 to 18 months, claim handset makers, this Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, which allows the handsets to buy and store low value electronic tokens (such as sport and transport tickets), will start being standard on new handsets.

But is it safe?

Wright says "a lot of work" has been done with credit card suppliers such as Visa and MasterCard to ensure the system is securely encrypted. "Unlike a wallet, if your phone is stolen it can be deactivated over the airwaves," Wright says.

"Also, downloading credit onto the phone would be PIN protected, so a thief could not download extra money and go on a spending spree. Although the technology is mobile, nobody can interrogate your handset to steal money from it because only a proper reader can deduct money from a phone, and that reader can only work over a couple of centimetres ."

Connecting the real world & the internet with CC: the C-shirt project

Here’s the process a C-shirt user follows: first, the person finds someone with a Creative Commons “Some Rights Reserved” logo on their shirt – this indicates they are wearing a C-shirt design. The person then takes a photograph using their cell phone, for example, of the QR code stuck to the C-shirt. When the photo is loaded onto the site the person is redirected to the URL where that particular design is stored.

Thinkin' bout linkin'

Related:
Is YouTube Web 2.0?

James Enck, European Telecom Analyst made a great post about Telco 2.0.. In the follow-up to his resume post, he says:

I didn't write this as some sort of manifesto. It was really just intended, for those who weren't there, as a summary of my opening presentation at Telco 2.0 (see also here), which itself was designed to take the audience out of their comfort zone, albeit in a humorous manner. The whole idea around the Telco 2.0 event was the theme of an "industry brainstorm," and I was trying to focus on issues which the industry needs to work through. As I made clear to the audience at the time, the list is a distillation of things I genuinely have heard investors complaining or worrying about (occasionally with a bit of help from me).

And here are the links to the the Ten Things I hate about Telecoms as well as to the follow up


See also:
Three words were on everyone's lips .... "convergence", "content" and "open".
Mobile 2.0 at the User Generated Conference. By the way: the term was used early on by Ajit and Tony Fish who wrote a book under the same title. And now Jérômes tells me also about a conference in San Francisco under the same name.

Finally back from the Côte d'Azur - sorry I didn't make it to MIPCOM where MobileTV and User Generated Content were two of the hot topics. But now to the IHT Article:

Wireless: Mobile marketing in an ink blot

"QR codes have been a great success in Japan because phone carriers confronted this in a systemic way, with all of them using the same technology," Daniel Scuka, the editor of Wireless Watch Japan, said - a potential lesson for carriers in Europe and the United States.

So true!


Promo PS:
Personally I see - and I repeat myself - two possible codes: Datamatrix and QR Codes. The Kaywa Reader supports both of them.

Softbank's Super Slim 3G Keitai: Panasonic 705.


Image from Cellsuite


Somewhat related:
BENQ's Black Box Phone with one big touchscreen

I wasn't at this Telco conference, but it sounds really interesting.

Today's Telco 2.0 event was a radical departure from that format. Befitting its name, and of interest to the "community" dimension of Forum Oxford, this event was ENGAGING and INTERACTIVE beyond anything I've ever seen.

Plug to the organizer - they certainly deserve it. The event was set up by Simon Torrance (CEO of STL) founder of the Telco 2.0 initiative. We had many of the active members of Forum Oxford in major roles in the event, such as Dean Bubley and Martin Geddes.

Ok, what made it so special. The technology of interaction. The whole event featured these ultraportable laptops with wireless connectivity. All participants were constantly able to provide real time questions, comments and feedback. And the event had polls and surveys as well.

posted by Tomi on Forum Oxford

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Similar ideas about the complex and changing world (not only for telcos) can be found here and there.

According to a report from Informa Telecoms and Media,

only a quarter of all mobile phones sold by 2008 will be 3G - which might not be quite the news operators, desperate to recoup the money they spent on third-generation networks, wanted to hear.

Couldn't that be different if handset manufacturers and telecoms would push now for integrated QR Code readers like in Japan - which increased by factor 3 the mobile internet usage in Japan in 2005? If people do not access more often the mobile internet, I don't see why they should need a 3G Phone. And I don't think that Mobile TV is the panacea.


via BBC News Technology which I mobilized with feed2mobile.

I wasn't sure if a QR Code on a can would work, but obviously it works as this image from Georgia.jp shows:



Via Fussballblog (see comments) and QR Code Blog