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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: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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