Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Expanding business with Wiki, GPS and RFID

A double read up on the article, I would suggest that wiki is a side where business can hardly be conducted such as e commerce. I am not saying it’s not a good site but somehow rather I find there’s no privacy as anyone can do posting and adjustment onto the comments or even news update. It may be a site for education, forum, and even a portal where groups of people come in and have a discussion over some issues such as the webpage NiceNet.org, my lecturer used to post up questions for us to answer and discuss. Maybe Wiki could conduct small business where by it concerns more on customer relationships than sales profit.

As for implementing GPS into businesses, its sounds good as it can help transporters to deliver their goods to certain unknown places. If GPS could be used in shopping malls, it could help those that got lost in such huge shopping mall. I once went Ikea, Damansara with my family and no doubt all KL’s shopping malls are quite huge and you can seriously get lost easily. As we was there doing our shopping on furniture, my dad asked me to get some things in his car. My bro and I went to get it and we got lost in the car park as we would find our dad’s car. We went from B2 to B3 to look for it and fearing whether it has been stolen or what. Somehow when we show the ticket to one of the guards, he told us that our car was parked at level B4. So if that moment I have a GPS, I guess all of us wouldn’t had freak out which we would have just find our way back to our car without getting lost.

RFID, I would also suggest the same thing with GPS. Having a system that could detect where your car is locate and park, without getting hazel to look for it. RFID, Radio Frequency Identification as discussed in the article is said to be widely used in the field of logistics where shipment processes and operations could be easily tracked by the use of RFID tags which emits a radio signal to be interpreted by the radio tower which enables details and information of products to be detected. RFID aids businesses as business operations are more organized with the help of RFID technology. If we were to implement it on shopping malls, other than hyper markets, yet to the parking ticket. Whereby a system body will be place inside the shopping mall when one got lost and has no idea where his car is, can just scan through the ticket and it’ll shows you your car location. I guess this might work out as told with GPS paragraph that lots of people tend to get lost in shopping malls and some of the security guards are not as friendly or knowledgeable to be helpful.

Expanding Mobile phones technology in the world of Business

Question C.

I would suggest in expanding mobile phones technology in the world of business. As we all know that current mobile trend which have a wifi, gps, emails, and etc.. Almost everything you could do with the mobile phones, even now, we can watch TV shows on a mobile phone! How awesome is that?

However, according to the article i have read thru about this Mobile phone section, it was told that a study done by the Australian Telecommunication Association(AMTA) that more than half of the employed respondent believes that mobile helps them to balance their family and working life. Now, some businesses are doing advertising thru mobile phones, to save cost and also helps the environment.

No doubt there are still much scams and dishonestly throughout the mobile adverts, come to think of it, by doing mobile ads it could not only bring up the businesses and also building up customer relationship thru convienience. I'm not saying taking those tradisional way of building up customer relationship is a no no, but what if we were to send them updates thru posting and somehow rather the post got lost or misused?

Back in 2005, I bought a mobile phone which contains much useful stuff such as e wallet, e credit card and so on. Back then I was still a kid as I didn't know what the heck was it, but know after learning this subject and knowing what is the use of an e wallet and so on, I really didn't know that how technology grows day by day. With e wallet, people can pay thru phones instead of bringing cash out since the secrurity on the street is terrible. Who knows when will i get rob?!
Exploring the part of E credit card, it's a very personal as it contains password to log in to use your credit card on the phone to pay your bills. Would it be awesome and cool if all your ever have to bring out was just your phone and it helps you do almost everything? On how to use, i seriously don't know as that phone i've dumped it long long time. *how cruel* As i was told that, I just have to key in my credit card number and a code behind my card, send it out to the bank, and it will send back a notification that tells i have swipe the card and i can bring my goods back home without any signature or receipt.

Till now, there's wifi and so on. Since TV phones are out for grabs, why not we take this opportunity for business to create adverts with higher resolutions just like those showed on TV and send them out as emails or attachments to our loyal customers and markets? Without having them to go back and watch TV just on to know what's going on around. Who knows some might just tell you they don't watch tv? For example, Digi users would receive sms and also mms about promotions and rewards. They even send out greetings mms to their loyal customers on festival seasons and sometimes for certain contest.

I find that expanding the mobile phones is a good deal and we could all move into a new era of new techonoly.