Hi to All ,
I am mohammed hamdy working on j2me since 4 months in Application communications
Hi Dave.
Hi all out there.
I am Paul.
Live in Gauteng in Soouth Africa.
Just starting to move form Windows to Linux ( so i am looking for answers and solutions everywhere.)
Hope to contribute something at some stage.
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Raggety
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:26:17
Hi,
I live in Bonny Scotland, know nothing about computers, and am trying to get the bl00dy thing to work!
Nx
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Novadog
Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:17:04
Some issues which you might need to consider:
1.) Do you need FSA / other financial approval for the system - for example, are you doing anything which would require a banking licence?
2.) It sounds as if there will be significant data protection issues - these will need consideration. Can you design the system, and its operation, in such a way that the minimum volume of personal data is required, and transmitted? Where it is necessary, is it suitably encrypted and anonymised? (For example, does the taxi driver need to know the device IMEI / customer's personal details, or would it be sufficient for the system to simply flag that the customer's account status was such that the journey should be carried out?
There will be a whole host of other similar issues too, but, probably nothing insurmountable - however, resolving them may not be cheap :(
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Neil
Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:50:52
Thanks a million Kevin that has given me som efood for thought, the plan is that a customer could manage their account on the web site one of the restrictions they could set is number of transactions per week, and max value per transaction. Which means if you leave your phone in the taxi then you don't have to worry about every one getting a free lift home afterwards. The current state of your account would appear on the Taxi drivers GUI so the taxi will know if your account is in the red or not. The customer would register their IMEI number which should give added securtity in that your phone will match your account. The service wouldn't work if you moved your sim card to another phone. Unless you registered an account with that phone. I'm starting a masters next week I hope to work on this idea as part of my thesis. Best rgds Frank
Hi Frank,
Seems a good idea to promote cashless taxis for both passenger and cabbie, for the reasons you've given; and existing solutions (although not identical) are available (for example Verrus in Canada , and Taxis Bleus in France). There is certainly opportunity for more sophisticated services following advances in mobile technology (such as GPS tracking to show distance travelled, and a record of journey time etc.), as you suggest. There could also be an option for corporate accounts so that registered individuals could automatically charge to their company.
My suggestions would be (and as a disclaimer, I'm not a lawyer, so best to seek further advice on number 2):
(1) keep NFC on the roadmap. NFC is available on many Japanese phones, and the touch-in/out is being trialled on European metros.
(2) Payments limits: certainly in Europe there are limits on mobile payments for tangible goods (i.e., non-digital). So for example you cannot buy a €50 theatre ticket via a mobile operator, rather it would have to be via a payments proxy (such as Paypal). As far as I know, cross-operator initiatives such as payforit.co.uk still have this restriction. So your payments reconciliation service (user to driver) would have to follow the same strict regulations as a bank - which may mean you are better off utilising existing payments APIs if you want to run this as an end-to-end managed service. You would also need to handle non-repudiation ("I never took this trip, someone has hacked my account, so I want a refund")
Hope that's of some help,
Kevin
http://www.verrus.com/verrus/article9.aspx
http://www.sgi.com/subscribe/sgi_magazine/07_november/08TaxisBleus.html
Hi my name is Frank Cawley I have an idea where taxi drivers can sign up to a website as a seller and customers sign up as buyers. When a buyer sits into a cab the sellers mobile device picks them up as a valid customer. The taxi driver sends them a txt with the fare and the customer replies with a pin number. The web site pays the taxi driver via electronic transfer and the customer is debited via their credit card or via a premium txt.
I've created a website to explain the idea better, www.wepayurbills.com, I'm looking for advice if the idea is possible. I would like to make it open source.
Hi Kam,
I've been given a response from our RIM contacts to your issues.
As I suspected I believe you have to be part of their developer program. There response below is:
"It seems like they are trying to run an app over BIS using the BlackBerry APN. The app works when using the simulator however by default BIS Service only allows http/https browsing and not application use, therefore the connection fails.
The developer can request approval for their app to run over the BIS transport if they are members of the BlackBerry Alliance Program."
This may cost you some money I believe! :-( ....
Let us know how you get on. None of our team have much familiarity with Blackberry apps.
Kind regards, Nicholas Herriot.
Hi Kam,
I believe this is down to the way applications are deployed onto Blackberries When they require a data connection they have to go through the blackberry APN's, and come for a certified blackberry app store.
Blackberry have tight control what app's can run on their devices. I'm forwarding your request to our blackberry contact to see if they can help you with getting a solution. I guess you will have to upload the app for approval, and put on their staging server. There may also be some form of certification of the app so that it may be installed on the device. Last point, to develop for the blackberry requires that you become a partner, which costs money! ....
If you know otherwise then you probably know more than us!
I'll post another response on this thread when our contact replies to us.
Kind regards, Nicholas Herriot.
Hi,
just been speaking to Vodafone trying to get some support and they have suggested I put a post on here to see if anyone can help.
I am having an application developed which is for Blackberries. Basically I want to ship and display data which is made available via a Web Service. The Blackberry we are testing with is the 8100 with mobile broardband and email.
The Blackberry application works in the desktop environment using the emulator and the data is displayed correctly. However, when we try to use Vodafone's mobile network in the UK we are getting "Open Tunnel - Failure" and nothing else. Has anyone else encountered anything similar? The calls that are being made are a http call followed by a SOAP call.
Any thoughts / suggestions / insights would be greatfully received.
Thanks
KAM
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KAM
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:34:31
