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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 technologies. Comparing Microsoft Tag to QR Code: Microsoft Tag uses colors and triangles vs. black … Read more
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 application which must be installed beforehand. I’m a believer that smart-posters will become a very … Read more
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 barcodes, 2D codes, words, and whatnot. Then took that one concept and applied for 12 … Read more
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 tags such as UPC and QR Codes barcodes… From the Google website: ZXing (pronounced “zebra … Read more
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). “Google is going to trial QR codes with print advertisers. This shows that Google is … Read more