Unfortunately we have been let down by the Canon's Gait and so the
event on the 21st will be held in the Waverley Bar round the corner at
3-5 St Mary's Street ...

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?pc=EH11TA

Kind regards,

Geoff.

--- In mxtechtalk@yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Ballinger" <geoff@...> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> The next event will be on Wednesday 21st of March at 7pm in the
> Canon's Gait in Edinburgh. Talks will be ...
>
> * Mobile Access to Data - Don't forget voice!
>
> "Love them or hate them, but don't disregard Interactive Voice
> Response (or IVR) systems as only applicable to the big boys. We all
> know how easy it is to find out the size of our overdraft with a few
> key strokes via telephone banking, but did you know you can provide
> this type of technology very economically for the smallest of projects."
>
> Steve Brown of Justfone explains how you can implement this type of
> system with a number of technologies, using traditional telephony and
> Voice over IP.
>
> * Mobile technologies for connecting physical
> objects to digital data
>
> "There are a number of technologies that enable mobile phones to
> access digital content that has been linked to physical objects.
> Approaches include tagging objects with passive markers such as 2D
> barcodes or active markers such as RFID tags. We provide another
> solution that identifies an object from an image taken on a camera
> phone and returns relevant data to the handset."
>
> Anthony Ashbrook of Mobile Acuity will provide a brief overview and
> comparison of the main approaches and provide some live examples.
>
> Looking forward to seeing folks there!,
>
> Geoff.
>