Last week I attended the HIMMS convention in Orlando and used my tablet PC to maximize my coverage and information at hand, but one other item to note was the fact that so many folks were still handing out "business cards". How many carry a device that is capable of "beaming" contact information? 
Many of us in the business world have them...Blackberries, Windows Mobile devices, etc. but it's amazing how we still rely on "paper" for the exchange of information instead of beaming a contact with our devices. Now this is not new technology by any means and has been around for quite a while as we all remember the Palm commercials with 2 folks beaming their information on the train...I too collected business cards as I was not sure of the comfort level of others using the technology...but again, this makes light of the fact of another area of how old habits die hard...with a paper card you have to either scan with OCR 
software or type all the information into a "contact file"; however when the information is beamed, the information is in the phone and synchronizes with Outlook...and ready to be utilized...phone calls, email, or just a general reference for all the information. There is also a V-Card format that can be used to import the information in to Email clients outside of Outlook as well. You can also beam other files with a Windows Mobile unit.
Anyway, this was just something that struck me as unusual as the show was all about technology...there were the card readers set up to scan the information while at the booth to make this easy to import in to Outlook for follow up emails, but what about the times when meetings occurred outside the designated booth areas and the device to scan was not available..those are the times when I still noticed the dependency on the old paper business cards alive and well.
The link below will take you to a Windows Mobile page that explains the process...BD
In the Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Tasks, and Pictures programs, you can beam files and information to other devices using Bluetooth or infrared. From the program, select the item you want to beam. In Calendar, first open the appointment in Agenda view.
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