Admission Tickets as Text Messages

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday January 18, 2006 @07:53AM from the hope-you-have-a-cell-phone dept.

lee1 writes to tell us that InfoWorld is reporting that Smartmachine and their partner Skidata have developed a new way to allow customers to purchase and receive tickets to events. The new ticketing system allows users to "have a ticket sent to their mobile phone via SMS (Short Message Service) in the form of a 2D (two-dimensional) bar code. At the gate, they slide their mobile phone display showing the bar code by a bar code reader." The new technology also claims to help combat the counterfeit, pilferage, and repeat use that can be such a problem for paper tickets.

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Re:Plan B by drinkypoo · 2006-01-18 08:09 · Score: 3, Informative

HTH: GSM Security FAQ

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Are those SMS? by Fr4ncis · 2006-01-18 08:21 · Score: 3, Informative

Are you sure they send SMS? Short Message Service is used to send just plain text, while MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) is used to send images as well as music and other nice stuff. I'm not sure you can compose a bar code with an SMS message!