Our modern smartphone screens are great for many things -- browsing the web, taking photos, etc. -- but they're useless when it comes to traditional barcode scanners.
Oh, how the times have changed for ShopSavvy. When the barcode-scanning app first launched on Android in 2008, hundreds of retailers had refused to give up their pricing and inventory data to it. Now that ShopSavvy has proven itself as …
If the new startup 1Ring has its way, soon we’ll be punching in phone numbers to learn more about the world around us.
The company’s technology is similar to QR barcodes, which are used in posters and magazines to connect …
ShareSquare, developers of a mobile platform that uses 2D barcodes, dubbed “QR codes,” to connect offline media like posters to the mobile Web, is formally launching today after proving wildly popular at this year’s South By Southwest conference.
The big …
Remember when Apple’s Steve Jobs dissed Pepsi as a purveyor of “sugared water”? It may be time to reboot Silicon Valley’s snobbery. The giant beverage-and-snacks concern announced this week a new experiment around barcodes at Internet Week in New York …
Mobile barcodes seem to be about to go mainstream, with Nokia and Sony Ericsson pre-installing barcode readers on many of their handsets. Barcodes in mobile are generally used to retrieve web content. For example a barcode on a poster can …
