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Orbit-iEX Uses QR Code Ticketing

Roger — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:20:52 +0000

The largest computer event in Switzerland, Orbit-iEX in Zurich, is making use of QR Codes for this years show. Free electronic tickets (Google translated link) in the form of QR Codes are available for mobile phone registrants. Admission to the show is by scanning the QR Code display on your mobile.

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Orbit-iEX Uses QR Code Ticketing

BMW Mini Italy uses QR Code

Roger — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:05:53 +0000

After a four month campaign with QR Codes in German magazine advertisements, BMW Mini has launched a similar campaign in Italy. The QR Code points to a mobile site where users can view photos and details of the new models.

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BMW Mini Italy uses QR Code

Lufthansa uses Aztec Code for paperless boarding.

Roger — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:47:57 +0000

Lufthansa passengers flying from Hamburg to Frankfurt or Munich can use a mobile boarding pass service. The pass is sent direct to their mobile via email or SMS. Passengers with only hand luggage proceed straight to the security checkpoint and to the gate, where the Aztec Code on their mobile boarding pass is read by a scanner. Roll out to other domestic routes follows throughout the summer. (Press Release)

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Lufthansa uses Aztec Code for paperless boarding.

Google Chart Server API generates QR Codes

Roger — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:42:49 +0000

Google Chart Server API now generates QR Codes. Simply choose the size in pixels of your barcode and the url you wish to encode. I chose 300 x 300 and http://2d-code.co.uk/ as the url. Inserting these in the required url format gives:

http://chartserver.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=300x300&chl=http://2d-code.co.uk/

Which when you paste it into your browser address bar produces this:

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Google Chart Server API generates QR Codes

Investment Trust uses QR Codes

Roger — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:42:33 +0000

UDR, Inc the real estate investment trust with 77,000 apartment homes nationwide is adopting 2d barcode technology. Dhrubo Sircar, Senior Vice President of Technology for UDR believes that U.S. businesses and consumers will come to rely on this technology. It plans to add QR Codes to its print advertising, marketing collateral and website pages, and to provide apartment community digital media. Company Press Release.

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Investment Trust uses QR Codes

Japan Airlines McDonald’s Promotion

Roger — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:56:58 +0000

Japan Airlines (JAL) has teamed up with McDonald’s in a special promotion. Until the end of May ‘08 users of JAL domestic flights using the ‘Quic’ service will receive a gift coupon that can be used in McDonald’s. The ‘Quic’ Touch and Go service uses QR encoded downloadable boarding passes for automated airport check-in machines.

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Japan Airlines McDonald's Promotion

QR Code on Harrods Poster

Roger — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:18:32 +0000

QR Codes are being used in a Harrods poster (see full post for image) to advertise their Design Icons exhibition. Leaflets and posters containing the code are being distributed to students at art, design and architectural schools in London. The QR Code decodes to a TinyURL which takes you to a mobile site with more information about the event and a competition.

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QR Code on Harrods Poster

C Library for Encoding QR Code Symbol

Roger — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:52:22 +0000

Kentaro Fukuchi has released a new version of libqrencode, the C library for encoding data in a QR Code symbol. Testing release 2008.4.17

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C Library for Encoding QR Code Symbol

QR Code on a Business Card but how?

Roger — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:50:14 +0000

How many different ways can you think of to get a working QR Code on your business card?

Here are two to start the ball rolling and when you think of others please add them in a comment.

First, the way that MT Digital’s Viscards would have you do it.

1. Sign up at viscards.com
2. Enter your contact information
3. Download your QR Code which points to http://www.viscards.com/your-user-name, the location of your vCard .vcf file.
4. Print the QR Code on your business card

Quite straight forward and once you have signed up you can go back and change the contact information (if you change jobs for example) and still use the same QR Code.

A second method using a drop.

1. Create your vCard .vcf file in Outlook or one of the many online generators like vCardMaker
2. Creat a new drop at drop.io and upload the .vcf file like this for example http://drop.io/hgjyqfr
3. Create a QR code somewhere like here for your drop.io url.
4. Print the QR Code on your business card

If you change jobs then you just create and upload a new .vcf file

Here is an example of one I produced on drop.io and one on Viscards both for The President.

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QR Code on a Business Card but how?

Bookhitch QR Codes

Roger — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:32:35 +0000

Bookhitch community book project, in which different authors wrote the plot line and the Bookhitch community voted how the story would progress, is about to be published. QR Codes appear in the book to enable readers to reach specific Bookhitch web pages and find out more information about certain features.

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Bookhitch QR Codes