Bar Code Reader by NTT DoCoMo

Capture URLs and Personal Data in an Instant

Users simply let the phone's camera capture and read the Bar code (QR Code) to obtain all sorts of information. This provides one-touch access to sites found with Bar codes printed in magazines, on posters, and other advertisements, without the hassle of entering URLs. Users can also display and register phone numbers and mail addresses from name cards.

First eBarcode From Verizon Wireless

Some Shakira concertgoers will receive a multimedia message barcode ticket sent to their Verizon Wireless phones. When they arrive at the concert, the wireless bar code tickets will be scanned to get them into the show.

Thanks Scott. I missed this one.

Getjar reaches 30.000 ShotCode users in 4 months.

"05-04-2006 Getjar, a large mobile online software distributor, is using ShotCodes to simplify their mobile software downloads drastically. One only needs to scan the unique ShotCode, which is depicted next to the software title, and confirm the download. Afterwards, the mobile phone starts downloading the software immediately. Difficult installation methods as first downloading the software to the pc and then installing by cable, infrared or Bluetooth have become superfluous."

Remember when this Code who launched by my friend Anil Malhotra, Founder of Bango.net?
I am sure you do. It was everywhere. At that time it was named the Spot.
Now, it is a ShotCode. Looks familiar, no?

Good job Dennis with this "first" launch!

Visa, Nokia launch phone payment project

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Visa International and Finnish cell phone maker Nokia Corp. jointly released the world's first credit card payment pilot system in Malaysia, allowing consumers to shop and pay using their mobile phones.

Far EasTone to promote handsets with built-in QR Code

Taiwan-based 3G telecom provider Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) plans to gradually increase the proportion of 3G handsets it offers that come with built-in Quick Response Code (QR Code), according to FET president Jan Erik Nilsson.
Starting from the second half of this year, the company will require its handset providers, including NEC, Sharp, and Nokia, to increase their shipments of handsets with built-in QR Code, Nilsson stated, adding that FET will also cooperate with a select number of Taiwan-based handset vendors to develop QR Code-enabled 3G handsets.
Among local handset makers, BenQ, Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Communications and Inventec Appliances, have already started developing related QR Code technology, according to market sources

The Art of the Start

Serge Loncar suggested to me to read this book. He got the WOW effect. Amazing, how many things I learnt the hard way when everything was simple in this book. If you have any intentions to launch a business in the IT world, it is a must-read.
Click the link on the left bar to get from Amazon.com. Again, it is a must!

Go Rogers

Amazing experience for today.

As I am travelling from US to Europe. I, as usual, shut off my BlackBerry before take off.
Suddenly, like an hour later I feel something vibrating in my pocket. I look and the BlackBerry automatically turn on to ring a reminder for a meeting canceled.
So I intend to shut it off again when suddenly I realized that messages are been received.
The plane is at 35000 feets and it says "Rogers Wireless". We are indeed flying above Canada and the network works. Weird experience. I turn it off immediately. I am just afraid now that
people received emails I wrote being disconnected that were intended to
be sent at my arrival.
Where were you when I received this email? I thought you were in a plane?

Thank you Rogers Wireless for this unique experience. I waiting
impatiently to see the result of the AirFrance experience in North
Africa for the first planes with GSM networks.

LinkMe to the World

The little box on the right is unique. It is an eZcode. You can create your own from here. Now to use it, you need to download the little app developped by SCANBUY.

SCANBUY Media is about linking the physical printing world to the Internet content."By simply pointing at a 2D code with a camera phone, consumers are automatically routed to the page the content provider has associated to that code."

After all, all the content is digital today, no? But it is not on your phone yet! Why, because even if you like to type Small MessageS on this little keypad, go for a URL. No way!
Now launch your camera from your camera phone with this app and point at the little box. Did you getthebox.com?
Now look what happened on your phone. I know! You are now a member of the WOW family.
The reading is impressive. The speed to access this content is amazing. A content you would
never remember to look from your home or office computer is right here.
After Blogging, MoBlogging, we will experience very soon the ScanBlogging. Ready?

Remote and Indirect blog from my BlackBerry.

Remote and Indirect blog from my BlackBerry.
It starts with an option for mobile users offered by Blogger.com, a blackberry and plenty of
commute time.
It becomes a day-to-day news. Some kind of diary about everything in this field.
In this case the everything is only about barcode and phones, it should be here.

It will arrive, a dedicated barcode-shopping-phone. Within 2 years max. By 2008, mobile
handset manufacturers will understand the power of barcodes and cellphone.
Today, I am preaching everyone to hear, read, understand the power of this fantastic mariage of an almost dead technology - the barcode - and a pushed-by-the-users technology - the camera phone. It will become a no-brainer. The same way you have an SMS feature on your
phone, you will have a barcode function on your camera phone. The trend is clear today.
It is very difficult when you are alone trying to convince the world that something so dramatic will happen. When I am not the only one anymore, it surely does help. Welcome!

Store Technology Update: The Next Generation of Retail

[...]
Another type of personal assistant is being developed by Scanbuy, Inc. The company develops technology that provides mobile phones and other wireless devices with the ability to capture and decode the ever-present bar code. Scanbuy's Optical Intelligence™ software transforms any camera phone into a personal bar code scanner that allows the immediate processing of the bar code. The software, which fits easily into a camera phone, PDA, or webcam, decodes and processes the information and provides users with multiple contents related to that code.

"It's the ultimate tool for comparison and smarter shopping. Your camera phone can become a personal, wireless, and interactive bar code scanner for less than half the price of traditional laser-based scanning equipment," says Scanbuy's Olivier Attia. "This software links the physical world to the Internet through the use of basic bar code technology. It helps businesses sell more products, and it also helps educate consumers, increasing the chances that they will be satisfied with their purchase and less likely to make a return."

Consumers aren't the only ones that will benefit from the Scanbuy technology. Businesses can reduce costs by replacing expensive scanners with cheaper scan-ready phones. Inventory management can be centralized, and field and sales forces can become more automated. There are even security applications — government officials can utilize the software to scan driver's licenses and other forms of identification at important checkpoints.

A consumer with a Scanbuy-equipped phone could theoretically walk into a store, scan a product they are interested in, and then through the phone's Internet connection, gain access to a complete list of the same product's availability and price variations at other stores.

First Interactive T-Shirts

It happens last week in Los Angeles and was launch by www.XxtremeMeasures.com. Check their site and solutions, it is a real interactive mobile agency.

Should you need to contact them directly, contact Dion their COO.

Getting On Board

Getting On Board
An old advertising medium is being reinvented. Billboards are getting smart and interactive, to let you in on the action
By DODY TSIANTAR

[...] In Japan, 30 million phones are equipped with a gizmo for reading QR Code, a tiny two-dimensional bar code commonly found on the front of magazines, which can bounce readers to a website, a competition or discount coupons. Last October in Tokyo, Northwest Airlines blew up QR codes to as large as 10 m in height and put them on billboards for passersby to snap, decode and win air miles in an online contest. [...]

Comments Again!

After hours of readings I figured out the "Comment" issue.
It is back. You can now comment the news on my blog but... you will have to show, as we say in French "Patte Blanche". It means you will have to register to post Comments. THEN, I will moderate the comments. I apologize for the inconvenience and hope to read you soon. Thanks

Camera Function Tops List of Frequently Used Features on Cell Phones, According to InfoTrends' Study

According to recent research by InfoTrends, the camera is the most popular mobile application. Although consumers may not be purchasing phones initially for their imaging components, it seems that once they try the camera feature, they are pleasantly surprised by its utility.

Of course, as digital cameras on cell phones become more widely available, the function is graduating from a special feature to one of a list of product specifications. InfoTrends' data shows that 29% of U.S. Internet users now have a camera phone, up from 18% in June of 2005. As the market moves towards an early majority phase, behaviors will change accordingly. For example, the number of images captured per month has been cut by more than 60% from 2004 to 2005. The cause of this decline can be attributed to some consumers no longer purchasing camera phones for "fun" and "spontaneity," but rather because the handset was the most affordable and had the best overall features.

More here.

Microsoft Agrees to Use Ad-ID

I found this news on Scott's Pondering Primate blog.

[...] The Microsoft decision is potentially key in helping influence more Web publishers to embrace Ad-ID. "This is the reason we developed Ad-ID was to meet the needs of ANA members in an advertising environment that is rapidly evolving and becoming more complex every day," said Barbara Bacci Mirque, Ad-ID co-CEO and ANA executive vp. "Microsoft believes the future lies with identified, targeted, customized advertisements, and the best way to effectively track and measure results from advertising assets is by using Ad-ID, a universal code which provides end to end system connectivity."

The list of users is getting long now.

Nutrition Tracker 2.0 & Calorie Scanner™

Remember the CS1504 from Symbol? Now you can use it to track your calories by scanning the UPC of the product you eat.

And the winner in Japan is: Barcode reader!

Japanese consumers are the world’s early adopters of the latest mobile technologies and features. The market is therefore seen as a key test bed for innovation, which is why industry professionals around the world look to Japan to understand “what’s next” in wireless. Even so, it’s a common myth that Japan is two to three years ahead of the U.S. in the development of its wireless market.

[..]

Among the mobile phone features used more often by Japanese consumers than their U.S. counterparts were wireless Web browsing, mobile email, ringtone downloads, PDA functions, graphics and screensaver downloads, mobile gaming, picture messaging, digital music listening, video messaging, and mobile TV and video. Most notably, 76 percent of Japanese consumers use their phones for Web browsing, compared to just 12 percent in the U.S. market.
Emerging features currently available in Japan, but less ubiquitous here, also display a strong growth potential for the consumer wireless market in the U.S. These features include the following:
- Barcode reader (used by 27 percent of Japanese consumers)
- GPS (26 percent)
- FM radio (22 percent)
- Voice recorder (18 percent)
- Analog TV tuner (18 percent)
- Mobile Commerce and e-money capabilities (16 percent)

BarCode 1 - A Web Of Information About Bar Code

This is the THE Site. Eveything you want to know about barcodes. For instance, did you know that GS1 is the new name for EAN International? Even the UCC (Uniform Code Council) announced that it has changed its name to GS1 US effective June 7, 2005. Everything you always wanted to learn about barcodes is at: BarCode 1 - A Web Of Information About Bar Code.
When it comes to barcodes Adams Russ is the expert.

New Database Research to Improve Comparison Shopping

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/001897.html: "Many of us depend on comparison shopping on the web for a diversity of things, flight tickets and computers included, and there are a number of agents available to help us out. But often it takes a lot of time just to manipulate these services to actually include products that you know are out there. The databases involved aren't considering your queries as any human travel agent would. Web agents aren't involved in evaluations or intelligent guesses.

This is how it works; users are provided with pricing information for thousands of products. Data is reconciled from dozens of online retailers who may represent products in slightly different ways. Due to those slight differences, until now, it has been tough for comparison-shopping software to properly figure out whether it is describing the same product or different ones."

Camera-Phone Danger

Columns by PC Magazine: Camera-Phone Danger: "Getting a corporate cell phone can be both a blessing and a burden for employees. On the one hand, your company covers the hardware and service charges and, while you'll certainly use the phone for business, it's also available to you for personal calls. On the other hand, the phone gives your company carte blanche to reach you anywhere and anytime they need to, and if you have the phone off over the weekend, they may ask you why on Monday. But what employees and companies may not realize is that the phone can also be a liability, especially if it's a camera phone."

Latest phones inform on groceries

Latest phones inform on groceries: "Latest phones inform on groceries"

the near future, Taiwanese consumers will be able to use their camera phones to give the tomatoes being sold in grocery stores a background check.
All they have to do is take a snapshot of the matrix-type Quick Response Code glued to the veggie, and the tomato's history - from the day it was planted and the way it was cultivated to the day it was picked and delivered to the store - would be displayed on their handset screen.
Those who want more information about those tomatoes only need to click on one button, and they will automatically be directed to the tomato farmer's mobile Web site.
"This is already happening in Japan where the QR Code is widely used," said Jan Nilsson, president of Far EasTone. "We hope the QR Code will be just as broadly used here."
Measuring about a couple of centimeters square, the QR Code is, in several ways, more superior than the conventional barcode. Unlike the barcode which can only store a small amount of data, the two-dimensional QR Code can store up to 4,296 characters, is equipped with an encryption and security code, is capable of 360-degree scanning, and facilitates one-click access to wireless Internet, said Nilsson.
Hoping to give its wireless services a boost, mobile telecom operator FET yesterday unveiled its first QR Code-enabled handset, the Sharp WX-T91. Users could use their Sharp phones to scan the QR Code provided in the FET wireless Internet service guide and quickly load the Web pages that they wanted. In addition to the Sharp handset, FET will also be introducing i-mode QR Code-enabled mobile phones in the third quarter of this year, the mobile operator said.

The Blogging Revolution

I was asked several times already: "Why do you blog?" Remember I just started in March 2006.
First, several people are guilty here. First of all Loic le Meur. Yes Sir you are the first. Loic was one of the first blog evangelist. He obviously has an establish blog but did not stop there. Enjoy the story behind this serial entrepreneur.
I won't mention Mr Sepuvelda or Mr Billaut again (see below interviews). Two major bloggers.
Second, members of my company. I was amazed to read their topics on their blogs and decided to follow the path.
Third, the passionnates: Elie with plane, Elise and her recipes, and the list goes on...
I highly suggest you read this article about the Blogging Revolution to understand the trend.

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The Blogging Revolution

Weblogs Are To Words What Napster Was To Music.
By Andrew Sullivan

In the beginning - say 1994 - the phenomenon now called blogging was little more than the sometimes nutty, sometimes inspired writing of online diaries. These days, there are tech blogs and sex blogs and drug blogs and onanistic teenage blogs. But there are also news blogs and commentary blogs, sites packed with links and quips and ideas and arguments that only months ago were the near-monopoly of established news outlets. Poised between media, blogs can be as nuanced and well-sourced as traditional journalism, but they have the immediacy of talk radio. Amid it all, this much is clear: The phenomenon is real. Blogging is changing the media world and could, I think, foment a revolution in how journalism functions in our culture.

No Comments!

First weeks in the Blog world and I already got hacked. Until I figure out a way to limit the risks of (BHA) Blog Hacking Activities, NO COMMENTS option for now on this Blog. I apologize for the inconvenience! If you want to comment a Blog, just send me an email at blog@attia.com.

Now I highly encourage hacking because there are good hacks. Indeed I found out recently that on this page that O'Reilly Publishing has a popular series of computer books that "reclaims the term 'hacking' for the good guys—innovators who explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools, and come up with fun things to try on their own."

Not the same thing!

Scripps acquires UK Comparison-Shopping Site uSwitch

The E.W. Scripps Company has paid for $366 million in cash for privately held uSwitch Ltd., a UK comparison-shopping site. Last June, Scripps had acquired comparison-shopping site Shopzilla for $525 million in cash. The services compete with Shopping.com, which eBay acquired last year for $620 million.

ComparisonEngines.com - Understanding online comparison engines

Everything you want to know about the ComparisonEngines.com industry is in this great site. Fantastic job done by Brian Smith.

M-Dollar: Have camera phone, will search

M-Dollar: Have camera phone, will search
Microsoft's Research division is getting snappy with Photo2Search, an intriguing new picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words technology

Motorola Introduces Optical Character Recognition

Motorola Introduces Optical Character Recognition: "Motorola Introduces Optical Character Recognition
What will Motorola decide to scan next?

From InfoWorld Motorola offers optical character recognition software on the Ming in China

Motorola Inc. is making life a little easier for Chinese executives. The company's latest smart phone, the Ming, packs a 2-megapixel camera that doubles as a business card scanner.

Motorola engineers added a card scanner and optical character-recognition software to the Ming handset."

Partnering with Google?

If you want to partner with Google, that's what you need to know about the way they are partnering with little guys.
Thanks Chris Sacca for a great blog.
Yes I know: "This is your personal blog and nothing in this blog is approved by your employer"

Talking With Frucall, New Comparison Shopping Service For Your Phone

Talking With Frucall, New Comparison Shopping Service For Your Phone Frucall, a mobile shopping comparison service, launched in beta last week. There's already been some good coverage.

01net. - Un comparateur de prix dans son téléphone portable

01net. - Un comparateur de prix dans son téléphone portable: "Un comparateur de prix dans son téléphone portable

Lire un code-barres avec son téléphone portable : une idée riche en applications que la start-up ScanBuy compte bien exploiter en Europe.

Julie de Meslon , 01net., le 24/01/2006 à 18h02"

The Mobile Technology Weblog: Better Camerphone Images through Innovation

The Mobile Technology Weblog: Better Camerphone Images through Innovation

ABC News: Camera-Phone Danger

ABC News: Camera-Phone Danger
Corporate cell phones are a great convenience and, perhaps, an even greater financial and liability risk.

SCANBUY ON TV

A quick video, compilation of several interviews on TV in US starting June 2005. If you don't get what SCANBUY Shopper is all about from this video, there is something wrong!

Verizon, Telefonica to buy Vodafone for $167 billion? | TG Daily

Verizon, Telefonica to buy Vodafone for $167 billion? TG Daily
According to a report published in the Daily Mail, Verizon, Telefonica of Spain and private equity firm Blackstone are planning to acquire and break-up the world's largest mobile phone company Vodafone.

Red Herring: Cameraphone as Store Scanner

A startup in New York City hopes to teach mobile subscribers to do more than take photos with their camera phones.April 3, 2006 Print Issue
The cell phone has evolved into many things: television, web browser, MP3 player, video camera. Now, add barcode scanner to the list.

Olivier Attia, the founder and CEO of ScanBuy, imagines a future in which shoppers will use camera phones to snap a photo of a barcode and retrieve a mother lode of product information—from alerts for people with food allergies to special offers and short previews of DVDs or CDs that they can then buy.

Turning mobile camera phones into barcode scanners in the palms of consumers is hardly a no-brainer. It’s easy to imagine faster technologies, such as RFID scanners in phones, supplanting ScanBuy’s innovation, which relies on a steady hand and a focused lens. But ScanBuy does have an advantage. The New York City-based company is zeroing in on markets like the United States and Latin America, places where mobile phones are used for little more than voice and text. It’s an open field.

More here

Gateway Email - SMS

Most carriers already understood the value to link your email to your SMS.
For instance with T-Mobile in US, if you want to send me a TextMessage, you can use
6464362383@tmomail.net. Now when you don't know the format of your gateway, sixsense did the work for you. Go directly to this page and select your carrier. Wherever you are?
If you don't want to use this format and just want to send a message to someone you don't know the carrier, just send it to phonenumber@teleflip.com

5 steps to download QR reader in Taiwan

什麼是行動條碼？只要開啟可使用行動條碼的手機中行動條碼應用程式，透過鏡頭對著行動條碼 (2D barcode)進行瞄準的動作，就可輕鬆利用行動條碼的圖樣，快速連結到網址、快速電話撥號或快速交換名片、行程資料等自動化文字傳輸，操作簡易且使用十分方便喔！

Who is Ori Alon?

Google has bought a new search algorithm penned by Ori Alon, an Israeli student from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Apparently they beat Microsoft and Yahoo, who were also interested in the super-advanced technique for prioritizing relevance in text-searches. The algorithm called Orion, works out the most relevant text on which to perform a search. It only works in English and rates the text by quality of the site in which it appears. Orion will make searches less-time consuming, by working with existing search engines and expanding on their function. Moreover, instead of finding pages on the net that contain keywords, then providing links, the new search engine will provide expanded text extracts which will eradicate the need to open every link. -->Orion had sparked interest from the likes of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, with Google eventually acquiring the rights to the algorithm. Alon stated that Orion would improve the speed and focus of internet searches making it an invaluable service. As its developers say, the new search-engine tool will revolutionize the way people retrieve information from the internet. Alon further explained that, it also provides a list of terms or topics related to the original search keyword. This new tool would make net surfing much easier and less frustrating, giving information directly and immediately making it a great time-saver for users. According to sources, it is confirmed that Ori Alon works at Google's Mountain View, California offices. Unfortunately there is no public demo of Orion, but this system is said to give users the most relevant results and a list of suggested topics that the user may not be aware of.

Scanbuy offers a NANO at CTIA 2006

in case you missed it, here is the link
http://www.scanbuy.com/CTIA2006Vegas/

Defining Google - Now Batelle believes in scanCOMMERCE

On 60 Minutes, John Batelle, who became the most knowledgeable Google expert discusses the current strategy. Defining Google (you can buy it from Amazon by clicking on the icon on the left of this page) is an interesting view on how Schmidt, Brin and Page are re-defining Search.
I receommend his very interesting Blog.

Why I mention this interview? Scroll down the page of the transcript and you will read:

"Battelle describes another advance potentially on the not-so-distant horizon. Users would, he says, "have a device which is in your pocket, which looks like a phone, and you go to a supermarket and you see a potentially overpriced box of pasta. And you take that device and you wand it over the product code, and you see comparison prices from Google of three other stores that are within a mile, OK? That’s power. That’s search. But no one has quite figured out that. That’s also the future.
"

Ring some bells?

Remember 2004 even Bill Gates was going there! Who's next?

Innovation: Our Most Important Investment

BILL GATES: “So everything here really drives our opportunity to come in with new software value. The idea that cameras are very cheap and that cameras will be built into cell phones means that for the first time the cell phone can basically see what's going on. […] It can take a picture of a barcode, see what product you're looking at buying, tell what the price is, what the recommendations are—really engage in a very rich interaction between the physical world and the digital world because of the magic of software that is running behind that camera.”

Watch the Video and go directly to 00:05:43 to hear this paragraph.

The Pondering Primate: The Next Google?...No, Much Much Bigger...

Scott P. Shaffer is a fabulous person. A real visionair. He thinks linking the physical world to Internet using barcode is BIGGER than Google. Check his blog. It is worth!
The Pondering Primate: The Next Google?...No, Much Much Bigger...

Fortune names Scanbuy one of the 25 "breakout companies"

25 Breakout Companies
Our 13th annual playlist of upstarts changing the game.

Bargain hunters have a new ally: the cellphone. Soon it will be easy to walk into a store, point your camera phone at the bar code on a product, and within seconds find the same item online for a comparable or better price.
Consumer bar-code technology, already common in Japan, is about to hit the U.S., says Olivier Attia. His 13-person company, Scanbuy, offers what he calls scancommerce software, which links any bar code to the Internet via camera phones. (The square code--above left--is designed to be especially phone-friendly.) The Nokia Series 60 and other phones can read the codes; they connect users to Amazon or PriceGrabber websites.
Before rushing to the mall, customers must download ScanZoom, Scanbuy's free software, to their cells. Scanbuy makes money by selling decoding technology to handset makers and by taking a cut from online retailers when goods are purchased via ScanZoom. Attia says he'll know he's arrived when "the sign outside the store reads NO PETS, NO FOOD, AND NO BAR-CODE SCANNING." -- Julie Schlosser

Scotsman.com Living - I am not a barcode .. I am a free man!

Scotsman.com Living - I am not a barcode .. I am a free man!

RED HERRING | Magazine Preview: Web Warrior

Red Herring narrows competition for “Red Herring 100 North America” to 200 companies.April 4, 2006
Red Herring on Wednesday will announce 200 companies as finalists in its annual competition for the “Red Herring 100 North America” list of technology companies that reflect promising innovations.

More than 1,000 privately held companies submitted entries and were judged on such factors as financial performance, innovations, quality of management, and their ability to execute their strategies.

The 100 winners will be announced May 23 at the Red Herring Spring conference in Monterey, California.

"We can see the resurgence of the tech sector reflected in the quantity and variety of excellent companies that we had to choose from in putting our list together,” said Joel Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief of Red Herring.

“It was difficult to choose the 200 finalists and we are very happy with the stellar quality of the companies on this short-list," said Mr. Dreyfuss.

RED HERRING Magazine Preview: Web Warrior: "“Scanning for Discounts” looks at how companies like ScanBuy hope to turn barcode scanning into the latest killer application for camera phones, giving shutterbugs detailed information about food, special offers, and even multimedia previews."

Don't you have a barcode on your business card?

Why would you have this weird thing on your business card?
Check http://people.scanbuy.com you'll understand.

SCANBUY offers a FREE phone in Cosmopolitan

WIN FREE STUFF FROM COSMO

Scanbuy in Chinese

Scanbuy Optical Intelligence for your mobile phones

Short-List of Finalists for the "Red Herring 100 North America" Awards: SCANBUY, INC

PRESS RELEASE Red Herring Releases Short-List of Finalists for the "Red Herring 100 North America" Awards

Do you know Jean Michel Billaut?

He is responsible. First job, out of college, I am participating to an amazing Billaut Show. Evangelist #1, Jean Michel Billaut told me: If you can go work for the CowBoys, just go! Couple of weeks later, I am in New York. Rest is history! Interview here.

Interview with Rodrigo A. SEPÚLVEDA SCHULZ

This guy is both nuts and a genius. I studied with Rodrigo years ago. Honestly I don't really know what he is doing of his days. Entrepreneur, investor, VC, manager, but he is successful.
Enjoy this unique interview recorded at Etre 2005 in Greece.
Also, be careful, the guy is becoming a star on TV (French TV but TV) with his vpod.tv. Thanks for letteing me using it.

PayPal launches text message payments - Wireless World - MSNBC.com

I tested it and I am ready to pay by SMS. Can you? Read the news PayPal launches text message payments - Wireless World - MSNBC.com. This is the easiest way for PayPal to become bigger than all the combined banks in the world.

Barcode grows with the fruit- The Economic Times

Barcode grows with the fruit- The Economic Times