PARIS-France Telecom R&D announced details on an experimental service that lets vacationers create multimedia travel albums by using their cell phones to transfer content instantly while on vacation. The service, called Memoire de Voyage, allows users to add their own content to a site, including audio and video files and photos, so they can share it with family and friends.
The service is being tested this summer with 500 French- and English-speaking tourists vacationing in Corsica and the French Riviera. The trial will run from Aug. 4 into September.
About 150 monuments and tourists sites in Corsica have been identified and assigned codes. Vacationers send the code for a site to the service using an interactive voice menu or text message. Then the user receives a confirmation that the data has been sent to the personal Web site.
