20 Dec
2009
20 Dec
'09
8:08 a.m.
On 20/12/2009 15:10, John Foust wrote:
At 07:19 AM 12/20/2009, Pete Turnbull wrote:
The key-fob, of course. Or for that matter, why couldn't the
average contemporary cell phone handle that sort of aural barcode?
No more bytes than a twitter or a txt.
True, it's not technically difficult. My point was just that nothing
does that, now. There's no incentive for companies like Sony Ericcson,
Motorola or Nokia to build that in. OTOH there are reasons for them to
build in Bluetooth capability and provide the profiles necessary to
handle vCard broadcasts (which is how placecasting works) and to provide
Near-Field Communications technology (using RFID, for bus tickets and
"smart posters" etc).
Both placecasting and smart posters *have* been tried. Look them up :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
These
days, how hard would be it be to modem-tone a URL at the
end of a radio advert or a TV advert?
And what would listen to anything as
ancient as modem tones?