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Amazon Japan Offers Barcode Purchases via Camera Phone

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the disintermediation dept.

Zode writes "Jesse James Garrett reports that Amazon Mobile Japan customers can purchase a item with their camera phones. "Snap a photo of a product bar code using your cell phone, and Amazon Japan will give you a price check," according to Garrett, relaying from this article in Ketai Watch (Wireless Watch). Here's the English translation from Babelfish."

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  1. Re:another security breach by Boss+Sauce · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hey man go easy on the Yoohoo next time before posting....

  2. Re:Indian patents ... by The+Cydonian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Okay, this officially is my first fan-boy post, but mod parent up and all that. Very informative, gracias!

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  3. Re:Male information by fbjon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    True, but why the hell do people insist on using babelfish for Japanese then!? Use WWW.EXCITE.CO.JP/WORLD, people. Here's the link from excite and as anyone can plainly notice, it makes a good translation of official text. If you want to translate an URL with Japanese, go to this page, paste in the url, select which way to translate with the radio buttons (the boxy character means japanese, the complex one is english), and Go!

    Let me state it again for clarification:

    Do NOT use babelfish for translating Japanese! Excite.co.jp translates cleanly, into correct and understandable English. (of course the japanese has to be correct to start with, no wild slang)

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  4. Soooo...... by sharkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The CueCat is back?

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  5. Re:Barcode recognition have been used awhile in Ja by JavaMoose · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Anyone who believes that they can get an iPod for free is just plain stupid (or really naive).

    Maybe the stupid (or naive) people are the ones that think you can't.

    http://secretagent.textamerica.com/?r=1401078

    http://secretagent.textamerica.com/?r=1402091

    http://secretagent.textamerica.com/?r=1426079

    It was 100% free for me. Email account was a throw-away yahoo account, so I don't even see any spam.

    Who is the naive one again?

  6. Does this mean... by Phidoux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... if I stick a barcode on the sexy number in the mini-skirt that sits in the cubical opposite mine, and then take a pic of the barcode, that someone will buy her for me?

    I'm buy-sexual... If I can't get it I buy it.

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  7. Re:Keitai doesn't mean wireless by Tore+S+B · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    People who speak the language, or are learning?

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