tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post7302831619009448279..comments2024-03-20T22:57:03.923+00:00Comments on Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless: Is m-commerce about to kill the retail industry?Dean Bubleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05719150957239368264noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post-92012115853813820212008-06-04T01:43:00.000+01:002008-06-04T01:43:00.000+01:00mCommerce works when it solves a problemand user u...mCommerce works when it solves a problem<BR/>and user understand the need.<BR/><BR/>The capacity to have portable computing power<BR/>has incredible potential. I am confident<BR/>that it will only improve our quality of life and ability to collaborate.<BR/><BR/>We are running a search tool called<BR/>mobile.barcle.com or www.barcle.com<BR/>which allow the shopper to input<BR/>the barcode so they are sure they are looking for the right information for the product currently in front of them.<BR/><BR/>We have a live database of over<BR/>20 million unique products covering over 50 000 brands with prcing from over 1200 partners.<BR/><BR/>The idea is converge instore experience of touch , see and feel with low online prices in order to save the user money. It is also a<BR/>GREEN technology as it means less travelling around and less usage of wasteful desktop computers.<BR/><BR/>The challenge in the North American market is the use of 1D instead of 2D codes, requires most<BR/>to input manually the barcodes, however for both the generation of instant messengers and Silver Surfers willing to type in 10 to 14number to quite often save both time and money, we have developped a core group of first adopters.<BR/><BR/>Ted Baltuch<BR/>www.barcle.com<BR/>mobile.barcle.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post-77374793637219490512008-04-10T19:13:00.000+01:002008-04-10T19:13:00.000+01:00Why don't you just Froogle an item when you are in...Why don't you just Froogle an item when you are in the store using your mobile web browser? Some operators in the US (Verizon, Helio) also provide some default product results for search items already. Helio already has Amazon directly built in as an results tab in its multi-homed search feature on Ocean and Mysto.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post-33656328617321442762008-04-10T16:20:00.000+01:002008-04-10T16:20:00.000+01:001 GB/s/mi^2 is pretty optimistic. With all their f...1 GB/s/mi^2 is pretty optimistic. With all their fancy antenna processing, LTE and mobile WiMAX will get somewhere between 2 and 4 bps/hz/cell (assuming 3 sector cells). So that 11+11 Mhz C-block allocation will give Verizon about 60 Mbps/cell (combined UL and DL). So the question is, how big are the cells?<BR/><BR/>Let's assume that in urban and suburban settings, Verizon is using the wonderful propagation characteristics of 700 MHz to get good indoor coverage and low battery life (as opposed to big cells) so they have 1 mile radius cells. That gives you about 20 Mbs/square mile. You were only off by a factor of 50 :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post-5201511021819408182008-04-10T12:12:00.000+01:002008-04-10T12:12:00.000+01:00I remember reading about companies doing this ages...I remember reading about companies doing this ages back - what I don't totally follow is, were you planning to domain squat with your registered URLs? Even a shorter domain probably wouldn't have helped - I've always been led to believe that there is more to building an e-commerce or m-commerce service than just registering a domain, which might explain why your wait turned out fruitless :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com