How does the service station process credit cards if it doesn't have a connection?
Peter Olivola ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Lyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 8:35 PM
To: XMLEDI Group
Subject: Re: Small-biz e-biz reflections from an EDI'er
The service station may not have an internet connection. Why pay for one of
those when the receipt can be downloaded for (virtually) "free" directly to
the persons mobile phone.
On Saturday 11 May 2002 01:15, you wrote:
> Question, why can't the receipt be routed back through to the home system
> mirroring payment? This seems like a kludge.
>
> Peter Olivola ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> 847 969 9300
> 847 969 9352 (fax)
> 708 829 3185 (cell)
> www.effective-data.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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