Why want my beaming Palm card back

As someone who works in sales, I find a lot of networking events in person. It's great to be able to leave the office and meet people and exchange contact information for follow-up.

What I've been noticing more and more, however, is that everyone seems to have returned to hand out paper cards, because it is much more convenient to do it than to type even a quick introductory email to someone at a meeting.

Personally I have not been printed cards in more than five years. The recent events when I joined IBM in 2007, and when he changed jobs in that company and moved to Florida from New Jersey, I never had the reissued had.

When I joined Microsoft in December 2012 did them not had. Now that I think about it, you probably should.

But there has to be a better way to exchange contact information. Business cards are lost, and the information about them has to be manually entered in the contacts Manager application on your device or scanned in any way, which requires OCR technology and is subject to all of the problems associated to.

Contact information email is best, but then ends on a thread of email contact information and not necessarily entered in your address book unless a virtual card (.vcf) file is attached. And of course you have to manually click the .vcf for import into your contact manager.

It comes as a surprise to some of you that there was a better way to deal with this problem, and it was resolved 17 years ago with the introduction of the Palm III PDA.

The Palm III was the first of a series of hand's Palm and its licensors OEM devices (Yes, I had several, Google was not the first to do this with Android) which could "Beam" all your contact information relevant to other Palm-compatible device while you had the need to go-Barrado and receipt of hardware.

All I had to do was hold the hardware Contacts button, points to another Palm Unit, and within 3 seconds, they had all the information. It was a simple technology and worked almost perfectly.

Of course, this only worked in las palmas, but back then, Palm had something along the line of the 90 per cent market share in the PDA market. Windows CE also had PDAs, and applications that allow these devices receive data and make palms. I don't remember exactly if Psion/Symbian had a similar way of dealing with the radiant problem Cruz-OS, but I am sure that it did. I know that even the Apple Newton could do it.

The modern smartphone avoided the blaster of IrDA in favor of the technology of 'better' in the form of Bluetooth, mobile data and Wi-Fi, but we don't have an easy solution to synchronize ad hoc contacts.

Yes, it's the new iOS 7 launch, but it does not work as easily as one would expect, and also it is not cross-platform with Android or Windows Phone. Android Beam requires NFC, and only works with other androids with NFC. Wi-Fi Direct, while potentially a good cross-platform solution, failed to buy in general industry.

Then, do we could well get that feature back and make sure that it works on all devices? Well, I have some ideas.

First, start with the good ' ol QR code. Each person would claim a registered QR code that essentially contain the URL of a web site or a web service that is published in XML format that contains the contact information that you want to share. This may include not only email addresses email and snail, titles and companies and phone numbers, but also links to social media recommended: accounts and profiles on Twitter and LinkedIn.

I see potentially, LinkedIn, Google, Microsoft and Apple running its own records of QR code, or even the usual domain registrar topics. And you should be able to transfer that registered QR House who can hold that kind of service at any time.

You should also be able to edit the content of published XML at any time, so if you changed jobs, or change telephone, or is, that the data can be automatically updated on all devices provided the PIM software in these devices that support dynamic update. However their registered QR code and address of power would always equal, as a phone number or email address.

Then we build applications for mobile devices that allow quick visualization of the QR code on the screen of the device and would also allow the camera facing forward on each device to capture the QR code on the device - other-, as well as you have your "handshake".

Of course, you can print these QR codes as buttons of fashion to the pins for their jackets, etc. If we actually start to use laptops, this is something that many people will want to.

Geek? Safe. But missing in us return to IrDA or find out how to reach around the world to adopt Wi-Fi Direct, need a solution like this.

You were a Palm tree "Beamer?" Reply and Let Me know.