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Tuesday,
December 30, 2003
Yesterday I
posted an entry pointing out the growing use of camera phones by
small business. Here is another article illustrating innovative
uses of camera phones by businesses:
The Year in Picturephones.
The article, citing sources at Picturephoning.com, provides the
following examples:
People have
been taking pictures of washing machines or plumbing fixtures
that need repairing, then sending them off to the repairman so
he'll bring the right parts.
Real estate
agents are using them to send pictures of homes to prospective
buyers, giving the realtor a speedy edge in a competitive
market.
A contractor
in the business of sealing driveways, has been taking pictures
of any pre-existing tar splatters on a customer's garage or
house. "Just so if a customer asks, I can say, "Here, look, that
was there before I started."
A company,
RealSafe.net Network , is suggesting real estate agents user
their camera phones - not to shoot property - but to snap
pictures of their clients (with their permission), as a form of
insurance and stored in a secure database, which can only be
accessed by court order.
At a Welsh
hospital, senior doctors are allowing interns to send them
pictures of an x-ray, thanks to pioneering mobile phone
technology, speeding up the diagnosis and suggested treatment
process.
Sounds like
the imagination is the limit for business uses of camera phones.
Expect the demand by businesses for camera phones to grow.
# posted by Anita Campbell : Thursday, December 18,
2003
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