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Welcome to About Mobility. My name is C. Enrique Ortiz and this is my blog where I cover mobile computing in general - my views on mobility, software, technologies & products, and related areas; with the occasional tangent into other unrelated thoughts. I try to blog at least once per week, if time permits.
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Category Archives: PhysicalToDigitalConnections
Microsoft Joins the Physical World Connections and Interactions Space with Microsoft Tag
Microsoft has joined the physical world connection/interactions space with its release of their High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) called Microsoft Tag, a new 2D Barcode technology developed by Microsoft research that competes with QR Code, Datamatrix and other 2D barcode … Continue reading
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Tagged connections, gettag, interactions, microsoft, physical, tag, world
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NFC tag-equipped (smart) posters in Japan
Crunchgear reports on Japan gets NFC tag-equipped movie posters… Hitachi, Gemalto, NTT Data and SoftBank are working together in developing the smart poster system that transmits information to cellphone users from the posters over NFC; the cellphones use the MasterCardPayPass … Continue reading
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A very good day for physical to digital worlds connection companies. U.S. Patent Office Rejects All Ninety Five NeoMedia Patent Claims
Back in March of 2006 I wrote about Neomedia’s patent claims related to computer systems that rely on scanned inputs — they claimed that they owned the IP for all technologies and computer systems that perform processing based on scanning … Continue reading
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Google ZXing (“Zebra Crossing”) is open for business
Sean Owen of Google left a comment on my blog about ZXing‘s availability: We are open for business! I invite everyone to take a look at what we’ve got so far: http://code.google.com/p/zxing/ Neat, an open-source Java implementation for decoding visual … Continue reading
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Google’s ZXing Project
I just found this little nugget at the wubbahed.com blog, which is Google’s ZXing project, a new (and still quiet) open source visual tags reader for Android for reading QR Code, DataMatrix and UPC barcodes (and probably others over time). … Continue reading
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