Question, why can't the receipt be routed back through to the home system mirroring payment? This seems like a kludge.
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From: David Lyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
But let me give you a simple scenario of some ebXML chips being developed in
Asia at the the moment.
On particular chip is designed to go into (or attach onto) a mobile phone.
When a business person goes and purchases petrol they place the phone (along
with the chip) on a contact pad.
The chip activates the contact pad to tell the receipt not to be printed but
rather to be sent into the mobile phone. That happens and the user takes the
mobile phone home without the paper receipt but with the electronic copy
loaded in the phone.
It then gets uploaded to the PC. No paper is lost, and the file is loaded
into the accounting system.
So simple. It's just one of the many simple technologies being developed in
the Asia/Pacific region at the moment.
If there are any Petrol companies who would like to trial the technology then
please let me know.
btw, as the phone is used in the payment office it poses no ignition threat.
Bluetooth isn't used as the pad only wants to talk with mobile phones less
than 10cm from the pad.
There are exciting things happening with Reciepts and Invoices out there.
The real challenge for developers is building an embedded accounting system
that fits in a mobile phone or pda that can collect receipts/invoices on the
go.
I would suspect that the only real people that would have the skills to build
devices like this in the future are the ones with the EDI backgrounds as now
the same power that they had in their Wang, MIPs or Tandem box, is about the
same as what you get in a PDA.
It seems to me that a lot of really skilled people have been nodding off to
sleep for a decade. That's ok, everybody needs a holiday now and again. :-)
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