Mobile Wallets for 1 Billion People

DigitaLife ‘04, a consumer electronics exhibition to be held in the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, will offer patrons the ability to carry their wallets, digitally, inside their mobile phones. Upon purchase of their tickets, visitors will be able to carry their event tickets, business cards, ShowCash debit cards and a loyalty card, all in their phones. Tickets will be issued via SMS, and ID cards saved as address book entries. These tickets and ID cards can then be scanned, as if they were physically presented in their paper or plastic form.

START MobileID technology enables this service by encoding the information otherwise stored in barcodes or magnetic strips into a special numeric geometry. This number is then optically scanned and decoded.

Unlike its picture-message counterparts, this technology is handset- and carrier-independent, and is supported by all message-enabled handsets on the market, including GSM, CDMA, 3G, i-Mode and Blackberry. As numbers are language-independent, it is internationally compatible. Continue >>