Both YottaMark and FoodLogiq offer systems that let shoppers type a text code into a mobile phone or home computer, or scan a bar-code using a phone's built-in camera, to find out when the tomatoes on the shelf were picked and which field they came from.
Imagine if someone walks into a bar with a cell phone up and recording every conversation.
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Another bar patron found the phone, and, instead of returning it to Apple, attempted to recover his beer money by selling it to the media.
Webster says he's seen a number of productivity applications, such as a shopping service that scans bar codes with the phone's camera and supplies comparative pricing, product reviews and local store information.
Some of them rely on technology other than NFC, such as offering services that let people pay for purchases by sending text messages or by scanning product bar codes using a phone's QR-code reader.
We don't see any major surprises in specs -- there's a dual-core Tegra 2 1GHz processor, 4.3-inch qHD screen, 8MP rear camera, and 1080p HDMI-out video, to list off the highlights -- although we are excited to see Gingerbread may be in the mix here, indicated by the ever-so-subtle blue bar seen on the phone's screen.
Wednesday's team announcement did lay to rest a few worries which had come to the surface when Jeremy Guscott was spotted in the Brewery bar with a mobile phone glued to his ear - although there was some scepticism, the possibility that Guscott was being called up to replace BOD couldn't entirely be discounted given Sir Clive's somewhat erratic selection policy.
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Among the cool new features, iPhone 5 will come with a new Maps app with Siri-powered turn-by-turn directions and a Passport app that will store digital versions of your affinity cards, boarding passes, tickets, coupons and, eventually credit and debit cards, so you can get on a plane or into a stadium or pay for a Starbucks coffee by flashing a bar code on the phone.
Mobile commerce, comparative shopping on your phone, mobile bar codes and more all existed and in many cases worked quite well.
One theory is that it's the unnamed person who found the phone in a bar after it was left there by an Apple employee.
The Apple genius bar suggested that I replace the phone itself, which I did.
"With Instagram for Android I can upload photos of abandoned beers on the backs of bar toilets RIGHT from my mobile phone!"
Punch the numbers into a telephone dial pad in a phone booth outside the bar, and a concealed door swings open to reveal a classic cocktail joint that swaggers with the decadence of a 1920s Chicago speakeasy.
Mr Evans explained that his mobile phone was stolen from a bar.
Future Droids may come at a low price if you agree to Google as the exclusive search bar and default browser search on the phone.
After Brian took it out of the bar, he had help shopping the phone around to news outlets, according to a new report from CNet.
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While its direct competitor, the Nokia 8210 series, was intended as a stylish high-end phone, it uses a forgettable bar form-factor with interchangeable covers just like many of its contemporaries.
After how frustrated I got switching between Yelp and Google Maps on my phone just trying to find a good bar to watch baseball (and drink, obviously), I would have loved for all this travel advice to be in one trusted place.
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At 4.28 inches long, 2.29 inches wide and .93 inches thick, the 4.5 ounce phone is a little bigger than many candy bar-shaped models.
The European Commission charged Samsung Electronics on Friday with abusing its dominant position in seeking to bar rival Apple from using a patent deemed essential to mobile phone use.
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If they don't have a frequent-flier ID card, travelers check in online or at kiosks and get a bar code on a printed boarding pass or on a mobile phone, just like at other airlines.
Scout out the bar or restaurant menu ahead of time and note your picks on your phone.
She cheered me on from 500 miles away for my first race (calming me down over the phone for my pre-race panic) and talked me through my bar exam jitters.
In January this correspondent, sitting in a Swiss hotel bar, thought nothing of looking up the BBC's site on his mobile phone and following, penalty kick by penalty kick, as Bristol Rovers dumped Fulham out of the FA Cup to his great joy.
She described how she had been spotting people across London using Lumia phones, from a woman in a restaurant who was showing a recently-acquired Lumia 800 to her fellow diners, to a female friend who, after playing with the same device at a bar, found herself approached by two different men all wanting to know more about her phone.
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In spite of its small iterative steps forward, Sense is now a user interface that's beginning to show its age, with oversized widgets that fail to make the best of the space available to them and that egregious omnipresent menu bar at the bottom that takes up far more space than a couple of links to your apps and phone ought to.
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