Take a picture of something, and save money!
We’re reaching the point where retailers are going to forbid you to take out your cell phone, or ask you to leave if you need to make a call… Why? Because we’ve now reached a point in the mobile industry where your phone can literally do the shopping for you. The only required effort on your part is taking a picture of whatever it is you want, and watch the magic happen.
For example, Amazon released an application for the iPhone where you can take a picture of any product, and Amazon will scan its picture library and match whatever it is you took a picture of and show you their pricing.
Another program (currently in testing for the Android phones) called Android Bounty scans any picture you take of any barcode, and have it pull up the results associated with that barcode on The Pirate Bay. Here’s a video demonstration below:
With this type of technology evolving, it’s only a matter of time before this becomes mainstream. Retailers are going to need to change their strategy and start offering their products at a more competitive price if they’re going to want to remain in business. Either that or start banning people from using their cell phones while in their stores… Which won’t go over well…
In any event, retailers, you better come up with a strategy soon!
Usually whenever you hear user stories and their experiences with Telco companies, they’re negative.
While I was browsing the CrackBerry Forums, I came across a Sprint user that took the prerogative to directly e-mail Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, and actually got his problem addressed.
User 0pusX from the CrackBerry Forums shares his story:
I am still so impressed at the response I have received I am still a bit shell shocked.
So Friday afternoon I decide to shoot an email to dan@sprint.com. All I did was explain the situation. When at work phone is constantly on roam. No EVDO connection thus causing battery to die quickly and causing my co-workers Moto v950 to never have direct connect service. I also wrote that we work in a 911 Dispatch center and use direct connect quite often and love the potential to have direct connect AND EVDO on the qChat devices…… if only we didn’t roam.
Fast forward to today at about 3pm. My co-worker tells me someone is here to see me. Imagine my surprise when I find out it is a Engineer from Sprint. Drove from the other side of the state to get some readings and talk to me. I tell him our issue and he witnesses it by looking down at his curve 8330 only to see no service. (I’m guessing he had roaming off).
Now it is 5:20 and my phone rings. It is a Exec Services Rep telling me they are working on my case and needed me to get a bit more info for her. She gave me all her contact info and once I get the info she needed she said she can go forward with fixing the problem. She noticed I had switched to an 8350i on iDen and I told her while that was true I do want to go back to my 8330 asap.
She apologized several times for my troubles and thanked me for my continued business.
I am so blown away that the next business day after sending the email they had people working on this. Now as soon as I get here some names they can get working on a solution.
KUDOS SPRINT!!! You earned a few lifetime customers today (me and 2 of my CDMA using co-workers were also very impressed)
Good job Sprint.
(Note: original posting from 0posX had alot of spelling errors that I corrected)
I wonder had this guy left out the fact that he works in a 911 dispatch center, if Sprint would have responded. But in any event, it’s nice to come across stories like this and know that the company is at least trying. I will give Sprint credit, they have been slowly turning things around, especially in customer care.
WTF is wrong with Apple's decision making?
I’ve always had reasons to avoid Apple, not so much because their products are bad, but because of the stupid decisions Apple makes.
Like the fact that the iPhone STILL to this day does not have copy & paste? WTF
Just recently, Apple denied an update for an application called Tweetie – a client that lets users post short messages directly to their Twitter accounts. The application was rejected on account of some bad language that was on Twitter. The decision making that goes through Apple’s channels for application approval is completely fucking retarded.
There was an application called “Podcaster” (now known as the RSS Player) that would allow people to download or stream podcasts onto their iPhone/iPod Touch. It was rejected because Apple claimed it was duplicating existing functionality. (Yet at that time the option didn’t exist until they released an update to their firmware.)
Engadget made a really good point saying they might as well reject Safari, since it’s capable of displaying profanities, might as well lock it down because it can display bad words! OH MY!
Seriously Apple, pull your head out of your ass. You have a good thing going here with your App store. If you keep fucking developers over with your stupid decisions rejecting legimate applications, yet approve stupid shit like “iFart”, you’re going to drive away your community.
Dumbasses.
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If you haven’t heard the story about mother Nadya Suleman giving birth to octuplets, well then you seriously need to get out more. It’s no secret that we as a society are pretty pissed off that a woman like her thinks she has the right to have as many kids as she wants, despite the fact that she lives with her mom, who is currently undergoing a foreclosure, a single mom, and jobless. Who do you think will end up paying for her kids? US TAXPAYERS.
In any event, Jimmy Kimmel makes light of the situation and shows us what most likely took place when Nadya gave birth.
Recent security flaws have been discovered with Adobe’s Flash player. Some of the problems include: denial of service, information disclosure, click-jacking attacks, and remote code execution. Anything that is over on Windows and Mac is 10.0.12.36 and Linux 10.0.15.3 have these known exploits.
Adobe has updated their Flash player to rectify these security vulnerabilities.
Go to Adobe’s site, and update your Flash Player, and also your player that’s embedded in your browser. You want 10.0.22.87. Or if you’re still back on version 9 of Flash, you want 9.0.159.0 in order to get the Flash Player that’s been patched to fix these multiple problems.
Get your update flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
