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Android contest winner scores $700K in seed financing
Mobile applications developer Big in Japan announced it secured $700,000 in seed financing from IT outsourcing company and tech startup incubator Architel LP in the wake of claiming one of 10 $275,000 top prizes awarded as part of Google's Android Developer Challenge competition. Big in Japan's ShopSavvy (formerly known as GoCart) was one of 1,788 total submissions to the Android Developer Challenge--the application promises users the capability to "scan a product's barcode with your phone's camera and view all the best prices online and at nearby, local stores," per its ADC description. ShopSavvy will be available for consumer download when Google opens its Android Market later this year--Big in Japan said ShopSavvy is the first of many commercial applications it intends to develop for the Android OS. Check out a screen capture of ShopSavvy here.
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Posted by streetstylz | September 28, 2008 - 2:13pm
I wonder if the creators of ShopSavvy know that they are in violation of NeoMedia's patents?
Posted by streetstylz | October 5, 2008 - 2:46pm
NeoMedia has patents that cover this technology
Patent #6,651,053 — Interactive system for investigating products on a network
An interactive search system for use with a global computer network, e.g., the Internet, using a search identifying barcode to rapidly and effectively obtain a supply of related information for presentation to a user. A computer, either landline based or mobile, may be used to input a UPC code, taken from a package or advertisement or prestored in the computer, to an implementing server on the network. The server contains a database of product and manufacturer identifying UPC codes and uses the input UPC code and the database to identify the manufacturer and is programmed to then perform a search of the network to locate sites relating to or operated by the manufacturer. Also, the server may search the network on a product basis to locate other sites containing the UPC under search. Using “parsing†technology, the server “pulls out†the product description, transmits it to and places it in a random access memory (RAM) or storage of the computer, and proceeds to perform further searching relying on the product description to uncover relevant information. Accordingly, using a single input, a collection of product-related and manufacturer information is quickly assembled in the computer available for a user’s consideration all at once at any time.
Posted by Anonymous | November 19, 2008 - 5:41pm
Software patents are lame.
nosoftwarepatents -dot- com
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