Digit-Eyes is an iPhone 3G app for the blind and visually impaired community. It makes text or audio QR Code labels you can read with your iPhone and also lets you read the Universal Product Code or European Article Number and find out what’s in the can or package. Nancy Miracle, President, Digital Miracles L.L.C. […]
Kerem Erkan has coded a PHP wrapper for Fukuchi Kentaro’s C library for generating ISO/IEC 18004 standard QR Codes.
Blazej Zieba alerted me about two php scripts he has written. “Mobile Virtual Guide” is a web application which allows you to create a virtual tour and generate QR Codes to mark locations and “Mobile 2d Code Hunt” is a web application which allows you to create urban games. Both applications are free and can […]
As a sabbatical project, Franz Enzenhofer has coded a tinyurl for QR Codes using the Google Code APIs, called miniQR. He has also made available a simple API for miniQR with a HTTP Request version and a JavaScript version. Nice work Franz.
Color Code Technologies is licensing exclusive territorial rights to its Color Construct Code (Color C Code) to mobile network operators interested in increasing average revenue per user through mobile advertising and marketing.
Color C Code enables the transmission of large amounts of data and does not require an internet connection to decode and display digital […]
While the object of cryptography is to make data unreadable by a third party, the object of steganography is to hide the data from a third party. It would appear that combining QR Codes with image processing is a practical stenographic technique, see “QR Code and image processing techniques are used to construct a nested […]
Denso Wave, developers of the QR Code and JMango developers of rapid mobile application delivery platforms have set up a joint global project team to develop turn key QR Code solutions worldwide. Full press release (PDF).
Update: 25 November, 2010 Interview with Ilan Oosting, CEO of JMango.
Serioustec have adopted 3GVision’s QR Code reader and backend tools as part of its new mobile publishing and tracking platform. Called Dakode it includes comprehensive editorial and advertising management capabilities as well as full reporting and analysis on performance. Full press release (.docx file).
Starbucks are testing payment by iPhone in sixteen selected stores in Silicon Valley and Seattle. The iPhone app displays a QR Code that can be used just like a Starbucks Card to make purchases.
The Camera Culture Group at MIT Media Lab will be demonstrating a barcode replacement at Siggraph 2009 in New Orleans next week. Called Bokode they consist of an LED under a mask and lens. Information is encoded in the light shining through the mask which varies in brightness depending on the angle it is seen […]