Flash Developer for Logosware Software, Kenichi Ueno has released a library into the Spark Project (an open source community to develop Flash/ActionScripts) that recognizes and decodes any QR Code from any image source.
KS Corporation commune in Japan have released version 2 of their QR creator program. Images can be embedded in the created QR Code and will be automatically sized so that the code can still be read.
QuickMark have announced QuickMark for PC an application that lets you decode multiple popular 2d and 1d barcode formats via an image file (drag and drop), a screen capture, or your webcam. Also QuickMark for PC allows you to create your own 2D barcodes on your PC and the standard edition is free.
Scanbuy has published the EZcode specification and announced that the patents and intellectual property rights owned by Scanbuy will not be exercised. Scanbuy is also offering a web development kit to embed the complete ScanLife platform in third party websites and they will be making a code reader SDK commercially available in Q4, 2009 for […]
Software developer Isaac Potoczny-Jones has integrated QR Codes into an Android App with ZXing to pass notes between two mobile phones.
MTag have announced MeePass which uses an encrypted 2d barcode to secure your identity on your mobile device. Payment transactions, loyalty programmes, ticketing etc., can all be completed securely without a connection. Users register a PIN which is not stored on the mobile so if the device is lost or stolen it cannot be used […]
Brandon Wiley has created an ATM machine for the Austin Time Exchange Network complementary currency using QR codes. Using Tom Brown’s OAuth and the OSCurrency API they are currently working together on making the process resistant to counterfeiting. You can read the technical details here P2P Money with App Engine, OAuth, and QR Codes. The […]
As part of The University of Wolverhampton Centre for Art and Design Research and Experimentation lecture series, Dr Tim Kindberg (Senior Researcher at HP Labs, Bristol, UK) is giving a talk on ‘Digital-physical Mashups’. The poster advertising the event (reproduced below) is a good example of the error correction capability inherent in QR Codes. Although […]
When I saw Ryo Hirosawa’s bus stop photo on Flickr I have to admit that I could not immediately see the advantage of using a QR Code with a bus time table. Now Ryo has been kind enough to explain it to me.
Each bus has a GPS which continuously updates the bus company server […]
Osaka based t-ny.net has created a Firefox plugin MobaCut which crops a user selected area of any webpage and automatically creates a mobile page from the selection. The selection appears as a popup with a QR code which decodes to the mobilised page. You can see how it works from the demonstration video below. Although […]