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September 21, 2006
Motorola and Symbol
The Motorola acquisition of Symbol yesterday will help Motorola gain ground with big corporate clients in the retail, transport and health markets but will it also lead to new mobile consumer products using Symbol's RFID and scanning technologies? One can only speculate that Motorola's mobile handset building competency and Symbol's expertise in scanning technology could produce some pretty interesting mobile health applications. Could your mobile phone read the RFID tag in your blood pressure medication bottle to tell you that you haven't opened the bottle and taken your pills that day. Only time will tell...
Mark Carpenter
Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab
markcarp@stanford.edu
Posted by Mark at September 21, 2006 08:42 AM