Comments on: Are You Ready for iEconomy? http://gigaom.com/2009/12/31/ieconomy/ Sat, 26 May 2012 02:16:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eideard http://gigaom.com/2009/12/31/ieconomy/#comment-234668 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:12:52 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=88915#comment-234668 Hadn’t realized Symbol was purchased by Motorola. Almost $4B. Wow. They are an amazing, quality-driven outfit.

One of the very 1st to realize the potential for something as simple as bar-coding.

I worked with a firm that an early test of bar-coding for the Pentagon – back in the day. We ran 10K parcels through a sort using bar-codes. 99.97% accuracy. The .03% was 3 parcels they lost in the warehouse. :)

]]> By: Jake http://gigaom.com/2009/12/31/ieconomy/#comment-234667 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:28:07 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=88915#comment-234667 Isn’t this for commerce – brick and mortar commerce – small business services commerce – physical presence commerce? Why do you label this as e-commerce? E-commerce is something I typically associate with non-physical presence on the web. Typed in credit card numbers and CVV2 strings. That sort of thing.

]]> By: Courtney Benson http://gigaom.com/2009/12/31/ieconomy/#comment-234666 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:13:56 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=88915#comment-234666 Agree with several other folks who posted. Antiquated and a total brain drain, who cares about mag stripes. We should not be using them anyway. The banks should have moved forward with chips along time ago but they did not want to pay for the cards. I agree with using itunes – it’s safer.

]]> By: Abbi Vakil http://gigaom.com/2009/12/31/ieconomy/#comment-234665 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:50:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=88915#comment-234665 While all these card readers are cool to play with, I just don’t see them taking off to the same degree that Paypal has. Are you really going to carry a card reader around with you as you go from store to store?

]]> By: Bob Harvey http://gigaom.com/2009/12/31/ieconomy/#comment-234664 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:34:50 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=88915#comment-234664 Oh come on. If western capitalism is going to be transformed because people don’t have to type in their credit card number, then we have become simultaneously indolent and decadent. To the point of extinction. Is this really the last thing that needed inventing?

And what’s all this fuss about swiping? I’ve not had the mag stripe on my cards read in the last 3 years. Europe, India, Brazil, South Africa all use chip-and-pin terminals.

Where is my talking computer, direct neural connection, head up car dashboard, bionic injury repair, home-made solar cell recepie? For glod’s sake, if this is the best we can do, making something we used to make in the 1970s slightly smaller, then what hope is there? It looks like a 1974 HP-65

]]> By: Patty DeDominic http://gigaom.com/2009/12/31/ieconomy/#comment-234663 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:08:49 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=88915#comment-234663 I would like to republish this article on my blog. You have some great points and job seekers and career navigators need to stay up to date on new tools and trends.
http://www.thenewnewworldofwork.com

a free resource for job seekers in the USA

]]> By: altrenda http://gigaom.com/2009/12/31/ieconomy/#comment-234662 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:57:53 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=88915#comment-234662 Apple wants you to only buy through iTunes. Expect them to compete with Paypal soon.

I do welcome the idea as a mobile IT Tech to be able to easily take credit card payments in the field.

]]> By: Braden Harris http://gigaom.com/2009/12/31/ieconomy/#comment-234661 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:42:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=88915#comment-234661 ….”Both Morphie and related HW manufacturers including Apple would need to come under PCI compliance to pull this off”…

Stay tuned next week from a couple of companies, including Simply Swipe It for hardware that does meet PCI compliance….

]]> By: Naor http://gigaom.com/2009/12/31/ieconomy/#comment-234660 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:40:28 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=88915#comment-234660 on the lighter side, i have a deja-vue from the mid ’90s, same pics, just with Motorola StarTac :). We made a long way since .. or haven’t we?

]]> By: Indus Khaitan http://gigaom.com/2009/12/31/ieconomy/#comment-234659 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:56:18 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=88915#comment-234659 There are lots of other problems which are to be solved in the payment card economy which nobody is paying attention — google visa/mastercard, merchant fees, etc — Anyways, using the iPhone (and adding on an hardware) to accept credit-cards is cough a weird idea. A POS terminal sells for $100 and on top of that the acquirer bank (or an intermediary SI) gives it free when the merchant signs up.

Yeah, the one place I would need an iPhone’s card acceptor is while buying Pina Colada’s in the swim suit at the beach (cards are waterproof, thanks!).

As for for personal usage, Om, we don’t need a terminal attached to the phone/PC — someone needs to revive the browser-based wallet (remember VeriFone/Microsoft’s wallet?). Well, wallet died prematurely as the tech stack was way too complicated for the 1999 internet user.

Happy new year.

Cheers,
Indus
01/01/10 12:22am Bangalore local time

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