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Trials Begin For Phone-operated Vending Machines
News The service will allow i-mode users to purchase soft drinks from custom-designed vending machines without the need for cash, in effect charging the payment through to the i-mode billing system. Coca-Cola Japan operates about one million of Japan's...
[August 8, 2001, 17:02]
Trials Begin For Phone-operated Vending Machines
Talkback When will we have the pay to charge your mobile/pda/xda/laptop vending machine
[April 23, 2004, 21:27]
QUALCOMM Case Study: Tomra East
White Papers Tomra East, a subsidiary of the North American division of Norway-based Tomra, builds, markets and maintains reverse vending machines that offer customers automated bottle redemptions. In June 2003, Tomra East began deploying wireless-enabled...
[July 14, 2008, 1:20]
Intel's Mobile Ambitions Still On Hold
News And the only 3G operator using Hermon is NTT DoCoMo, which is using Hermon-based modules to record wireless payments made at vending machines. In the interim, Intel has worked with NTT DoCoMo in Japan on modules that allow vending machines, taxis...
[March 10, 2006, 13:40]
OIDS.X
Downloads Rescue the OIDS from the Fiendish Biocretes who are turning them into vending machines and household appliances. Fuel your ship, charge your shields, and blast off to adventure as you challenge planetoid after planetoid of devious gravity traps...
[October 18, 2003, 0:27]
WinVideo
Downloads WinVideo is a multifunctional program for video rental business with optionally one or more Automatic Video Vending machines (Video Products automatic delivery). Common WinVideo customer is a video store with rental products.
[March 11, 2007, 3:16]
Toshiba Claims Fuel Cell Breakthrough
Talkback Methane Cell vending machines - this is what a Toshiba spokesman said was one vision of the future. Instant power wherever you are
[June 27, 2004, 13:34]
Where Is The Learning In E-Learning?: A Critical Analysis Of The E-Learning Industry
White Papers Technologies such as Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) are like vending machines. While it is important that they work well, what is more important is what they dispense.
[August 2, 2004, 5:27]
Cribware
Downloads Cribware controls secure storage solutions including vending, Lista cabinets and tool dispensing machines for a completely controlled environment. The Cribware system is the leading software application for managing and controlling toolrooms...
[June 8, 2007, 2:46]
Phone Users Hang Up On M-commerce
News However, the concept of "m-cash," or using a mobile phone to buy small items electronically, such as sodas from vending machines or transit tickets, has grown on consumers. Pepsi and Coke have both teamed up with mobile phone makers for trials in...
[March 21, 2002, 11:53]
Bluetooth To Lead The E-commerce Revolution - Gartner
News He added: "It provides endless opportunities for applications such as vending and ticketing machines, point-of-sale terminals, banking machines and parking meters. The wireless technology Bluetooth was hailed by analysts as one of the main drivers...
[November 2, 1999, 8:28]
Barclays Trials 'wave And Pay' Debit Cards
News It says the tech will suit "fast food outlets, coffee shops, newsagents, off licences, bars, pubs, parking facilities and vending machines". A similar scheme, the Octopus card, is already used in Hong Kong where users can pick up their paper at a 7...
[December 14, 2006, 8:02]
RFID: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
News As the official soft drink of the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Coca-Cola provided free refreshment to athletes using Coke bottle-shaped key ring tags and Coca-Cola vending machines equipped with RFID readers.
[February 19, 2004, 14:29]
Jasper Wireless Targets Untapped M2M Market
News For example, a Sprint Nextel or a Rogers may have an M2M vending-machine monitoring application, to which they will add the fleet-management telematics for the trucks that service those machines, and the cell-phone connectivity for the workers in...
[October 9, 2007, 18:22]
Synanthropy, And Ice Cream For Crow
Blog It pointed me at A Vending Machine For Crows, a project by polymath techie Joshua Klein that aims to put some of the hundreds of millions of dropped coins back in circulation. Perhaps the most exciting long-term potential for the Crow Vending...
[March 5, 2008, 10:32]
Lacey's Paper Round
News At Finnish railway stations, vending machines sell chocolate bars displaying their own mobile number. As Nokia and Ericsson go from strength to strength, Scandinavia adds another first to its significant achievements in mobile telephony - the...
[August 10, 1998, 9:33]
Lacey's Paper Round: Best Of 1998
News At Finnish railway stations, vending machines sell chocolate bars displaying their own mobile number. As Nokia and Ericsson go from strength to strength, Scandinavia adds another first to its significant achievements in mobile telephony -- the...
[December 29, 1998, 5:41]
Novell Considers Embedded Linux
News Novell, which sells Linux for servers and desktop computers, is considering a move into the market for embedded computing for devices such as mobile phones and vending machines. The company is thinking over a choice of developing its own technology...
[March 25, 2004, 7:45]
At Last! The Emperor
Talkback I don't notice the DfES cravenly removing taps from schools and replacing them exclusively with vending machines. Sounds like a long overdue breath of fresh air and good sense. I've noticed that the water available for schoolchildren to drink in...
[January 16, 2007, 17:02]
Orange Trials 3G Rival To WiMax
Talkback The best mobile web-service I can think of is to auto-sync with my PayPal account to wirelessly pay for taxis, busses and vending machines. Oh great, another 3G trial. It took long enough for these gready companies to get the services operational...
[March 31, 2005, 19:46]
