Look forward to seeing folks tonight! Kind regards,

Geoff.

--- In mxtechtalk@yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Ballinger" <geoff@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
>