Qr Codes Archive

  • Utility Announces a New Website and Additional Smartphone Capabilities

    Posted on May 24, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Little Giant Ladder Systems First to Use QR Codes to Increase Ladder Safety

    Posted on May 10, 2011 | No Comments
    SPRINGVILLE, Utah–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Little Giant Ladder Systems® (www.littlegiantladders.com), maker of the original articulating ladder, unveiled today the newest smartphone technology to the hardware industry to increase ladder safety ...

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  • SendOutCards Launches Video Cards

    Posted on April 28, 2011 | No Comments
    SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SendOutCards® today introduced Video Cards, the next generation of greeting cards that uses video, web 2.0, smartphone technology and traditional, printed greeting cards as an enhanced way to...

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  • Brilliance Audio Introduces Snap to Listen App

    Posted on March 23, 2011 | No Comments
    GRAND HAVEN, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Brilliance Audio, Inc., a leading audiobook publisher, will now place a two-dimensional bar code (called a “quick response” or “QR” code) on its packaging, which allows customers and...

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  • Microsoft Tag comes out of beta, promises free colorful codes for all

    Microsoft Tag comes out of beta, promises free colorful codes for all

    Posted on May 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Microsoft Tag comes out of beta, promises free colorful codes for allIt was about a year and a half ago that Microsoft decided it could do QR codes better, that any universal coding system needed a dash of color, and launched Tag. Now, the roughly one billion Tags that users have printed have been made a little less illegitimate, with Microsoft bringing the service out of beta and taking the opportunity to toot Tag's trumpet a bit. The codes have appeared in 20 million magazines so far and have recently been deployed to create a sort of tour for geeks in Amsterdam (no word on whether our own international man of mystery is featured). Meanwhile America's cultural hub, the Mall of America, has been similarly bestickered to "enhance customer engagement," but based on our previous experiences at that bastion of commercialism we're thinking scooters and foot massages might have been more effective.

    Microsoft Tag comes out of beta, promises free colorful codes for all originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 13:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Microsoft Tag fills your world with tags that you scan for information

    Microsoft Tag fills your world with tags that you scan for information

    Posted on May 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Say hello to Microsoft Tag. It's a brand new service (I guess you can call it a service) that envisions a world filled with tags. The tags, almost like barcodes or QR codes, are placed all over the place. On merchandise at the mall, on statues at the parks, and so on. You scan the tag with your phone, then all sorts of info pops up.

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  • iCitizen Symposium 2010: The Real-Time Web

    iCitizen Symposium 2010: The Real-Time Web

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
    I’ve been at the iCitizen Symposium 2010, here in beautiful Columbus OH, since bright and early this morning. I have been talking to people and scanning QR codes (I’ll come back to that). The main theme of this event surrounds the “real-time web” and the speed with which its underbelly is changing the way people [...]

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  • Blinking LEDs to give QR codes a run for their (ad) money

    Blinking LEDs to give QR codes a run for their (ad) money

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
    We're still waiting for this so-called QR code revolution to hit North America, but our contemporaries across the Pacific are already looking to develop the next big thing. Reportedly, a smattering of mega-corps (including the likes of Toshiba and NEC) are joining hands in order to concoct a rivaling technology that requires even less effort to get content from billboards, books and posters to one's mobile. The heretofore unnamed system utilizes blinking LEDs to send data to phones, and so long as an ad has enough room for a minuscule light, consumers can come within five meters of it and receive the associated information by simply pointing their handset in the direction of the light. If all goes well, the technology will be ready for commercialization by 2013, or just after phase one of the Robot Apocalypse.

    Blinking LEDs to give QR codes a run for their (ad) money originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Blinking LEDs transmit information to cell phones via light

    Blinking LEDs transmit information to cell phones via light

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm not really sure if this is good or bad news for end consumers, but a couple of Japanese companies have developed a technology that makes it possible to transmit information from blinking LEDs fixed on advertisements to cell phones - using only light. The companies involved in the development include some big names such as Toshiba or NEC. With this new system, Japanese cell phone users don't have to scan the ubiquitous QR codes anymore to access more information on a certain product or to get coupons but can obtain the data without being physically close to the ads. If you have an ad measuring 1sqm and place LEDs on it, for example, the target user can stand as far as five meters away (the distance can be longer in the case of larger ads). If the users are interested in what's being offered, it's enough to point the cell phone to the ad to instantly view the information on the screen.

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  • Now blinking LEDs can transmit information to cell phones via light

    Now blinking LEDs can transmit information to cell phones via light

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm not really sure if this is good or bad news for end consumers, but a couple of Japanese companies have developed a technology that makes it possible to transmit information from blinking LEDs fixed on advertisements to cell phones - using only light. The companies involved in the development include some big names such as Toshiba or NEC. With this new system, Japanese cell phone users don't have to scan the ubiquitous QR codes anymore to access more information on a certain product or to get coupons but can obtain the data without being physically close to the ads. If you have an ad measuring 1sqm and place LEDs on it, for example, the target user can stand as far as five meters away (the distance can be longer in the case of larger ads). If the users are interested in what's being offered, it's enough to point the cell phone to the ad to instantly view the information on the screen.

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