Anyone heard of this???
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Someone at my company heard that an insurance company in Japan is now giving their customers a sticker to put on their car that will automatically cause your cell phone to dial the insurance company if you hold the phone close to it. Of course, now my company wants a full report from me about how we can use this. Anyone heard of this before or know of any companies that might do this kind of thing? What the heck do they call it?
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Someone at my company heard that an insurance company in Japan is now giving their customers a sticker to put on their car that will automatically cause your cell phone to dial the insurance company if you hold the phone close to it. Of course, now my company wants a full report from me about how we can use this. Anyone heard of this before or know of any companies that might do this kind of thing? What the heck do they call it?
Nope. Haven't heard of it and it sounds kind of creepy :suss:
If you try to write that in English, I might be able to understand more than a fraction of it. - Guffa
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Someone at my company heard that an insurance company in Japan is now giving their customers a sticker to put on their car that will automatically cause your cell phone to dial the insurance company if you hold the phone close to it. Of course, now my company wants a full report from me about how we can use this. Anyone heard of this before or know of any companies that might do this kind of thing? What the heck do they call it?
I'd ask the person asking for a report for a source of information. If he read it in the 'odd spot' in the paper, it's probably not exactly true.
Christian Graus - C++ MVP 'Why don't we jump on a fad that hasn't already been widely discredited ?' - Dilbert
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Someone at my company heard that an insurance company in Japan is now giving their customers a sticker to put on their car that will automatically cause your cell phone to dial the insurance company if you hold the phone close to it. Of course, now my company wants a full report from me about how we can use this. Anyone heard of this before or know of any companies that might do this kind of thing? What the heck do they call it?
Sounds like a hoax. -The sticker would have to emit some sort of signal that ALL phones listened to and dialed automatically. -Even then, if you were on the phone already, how would it dial to the insurance company. -And finally, would something like this preclude passengers in your vehicle from using their cell phone in your car?
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Someone at my company heard that an insurance company in Japan is now giving their customers a sticker to put on their car that will automatically cause your cell phone to dial the insurance company if you hold the phone close to it. Of course, now my company wants a full report from me about how we can use this. Anyone heard of this before or know of any companies that might do this kind of thing? What the heck do they call it?
webguy55 wrote:
giving their customers a sticker to put on their car that will automatically cause your cell phone to dial the insurance company if you hold the phone close to it.
Sounds kindof shortsigted to me, what if the part of your car that got totaled was the part you put the sticker on? "I wanted to call guys, but I couldn't find the sticker...":-D
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Sounds like a hoax. -The sticker would have to emit some sort of signal that ALL phones listened to and dialed automatically. -Even then, if you were on the phone already, how would it dial to the insurance company. -And finally, would something like this preclude passengers in your vehicle from using their cell phone in your car?
And, what if you walked too close to the sticker, and your phone just kept dialling the company. That was the gist of my comment, I don't buy it, and it worries me that someone has been asked at work to provide a report on something that I doubt has come from a serious source. Of course, I could be wrong. But, that's how it feels to me.
Christian Graus - C++ MVP 'Why don't we jump on a fad that hasn't already been widely discredited ?' - Dilbert
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webguy55 wrote:
giving their customers a sticker to put on their car that will automatically cause your cell phone to dial the insurance company if you hold the phone close to it.
Sounds kindof shortsigted to me, what if the part of your car that got totaled was the part you put the sticker on? "I wanted to call guys, but I couldn't find the sticker...":-D
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Someone at my company heard that an insurance company in Japan is now giving their customers a sticker to put on their car that will automatically cause your cell phone to dial the insurance company if you hold the phone close to it. Of course, now my company wants a full report from me about how we can use this. Anyone heard of this before or know of any companies that might do this kind of thing? What the heck do they call it?
I think I found something: "Sony, working with NTT DoCoMo has been spearheading the mobile phone wallet technology, or as it’s commonly known 'FeliCa'. This technology makes use of a RFID chip inside the handset which can communicate with special readers when the phone is placed near them. "
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Someone at my company heard that an insurance company in Japan is now giving their customers a sticker to put on their car that will automatically cause your cell phone to dial the insurance company if you hold the phone close to it. Of course, now my company wants a full report from me about how we can use this. Anyone heard of this before or know of any companies that might do this kind of thing? What the heck do they call it?
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It doesn't sound too bad, as long as it was just the phone number of the company like the sticker others send you to put in your window. What would be creepy is if somehow the stickers where encoded for a particular customer and anyone could glean information about the person almost like reading info from a credit card or something.
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I think I found something: "Sony, working with NTT DoCoMo has been spearheading the mobile phone wallet technology, or as it’s commonly known 'FeliCa'. This technology makes use of a RFID chip inside the handset which can communicate with special readers when the phone is placed near them. "
I did a quick search as well, and it does appear that RFID is really catching on in Japan. Parents are using it to track their kids and security guards are using them to log records that they visited a security station. Those both seem like weak examples for its usage. I think an RFID tag in the security guards badges would be a better place, and GPS for the kids. Japan has also been very accepting to the "spying" technologies.
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It doesn't sound too bad, as long as it was just the phone number of the company like the sticker others send you to put in your window. What would be creepy is if somehow the stickers where encoded for a particular customer and anyone could glean information about the person almost like reading info from a credit card or something.
:wtf: Why don't they just tell you their phone number?
Matt Gerrans
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:wtf: Why don't they just tell you their phone number?
Matt Gerrans
That's what I was thinking - Why not just have the phone number on the sticker?
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Someone at my company heard that an insurance company in Japan is now giving their customers a sticker to put on their car that will automatically cause your cell phone to dial the insurance company if you hold the phone close to it. Of course, now my company wants a full report from me about how we can use this. Anyone heard of this before or know of any companies that might do this kind of thing? What the heck do they call it?
I have had the low-tech version of it for years. The sticker just had the insurance companies number and your fingers did the dialling!