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Mobile-Ticketing - Delivery On Mobile Phone

Posted by timothy on from the who-needs-a-boarding-pass dept.

quark007 writes "That's Cricket is reporting that the first match of the India-Australia cricket Test series in Bangalore next month will have hi-tech ticketing with the launch of 'Mobile-Ticketing,' a new service that enables cricket fans across the world to book the tickets online. But thats half the fun, since the tickets would be delivered directly to their mobile phones. the service is managed by Spice . The service delives the ticket as a special barcode which can then be scanned by a barcode reader. Sounds simple. Wired reported a similar story a while back." A system like this would have been great in my unsuccessful hunt for LotR Marathon tickets.

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  1. ZebraPass by powdered+toast+dude · · Score: 5, Informative

    Back in 2000, this was the original plan of a Washington, DC startup called ZebraPass. They failed spectacularly.

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  2. this is old stuff by theskeptic · · Score: 5, Informative

    go to NTT Docomo to see their phones and what they are capable of. Barcoding, ticket sales? Already in place for the past 2 years in jp.

  3. How this works... by Serious+Simon · · Score: 3, Informative
    The service sends you an image containing a 2-dimensional bar code such as Data Matrix. This bar code contains data that identifies your ticket.

    The bar code reader uses a CCD camera to capture the image and a relatively powerful processor to decode the data from it.

    It is actually not that easy to construct a reader that is able to read these bar codes, from a variety of mobile telephone displays. Especially when the backlight of the telephone is off, it is difficult to get an image with good contrast while avoiding reflections from the reader's light source.