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Gmail boarding passes and movie tickets can now be stored in Google Wallet

03/19/202403/18/2024 Sam Lambert

Google Wallet - Gmail app on phone update

In the mobile app’s latest update, support was added to draw these documents from Gmail Recent Google Wallet updates have given the mobile app the ability to support drawing travel boarding passes and movie tickets right out of a Gmail email account. The new feature for the app was originally announced in developer release notes Once Google Wallet has been updated, users will be able to automatically use the confirmation emails they receive for their boarding passes and movie tickets to import those documents into the app. Both boarding passes…

Google Chrome QR code generator is headed to a future browser version

12/11/201912/10/2019 Jennifer Goula

Chrome QR Code Generator - mobile phone - Chrome symbol - QR code

The tech giant has chosen to work quick response codes into an upcoming version of its browser. Google is working on adding a Chrome QR code generator to an upcoming version of the popular browser. The idea is to provide a new and simple way to send websites directly from a desktop or laptop screen onto a mobile device. Using quick response codes makes it possible for a quick scan to send a desktop site to a phone. Typing a URL into a mobile device is an inconvenient task. After…

Integrate graphics in QR Code while keeping the error correction intact

03/31/201304/13/2014 Guest Post

QR Codes are being used more and more in magazines and on billboards. They offer a good bridge between the real world and the digital world of the internet. Scanning a QR Code that contains an URL avoids typing errors and even deep-linking into your website becomes easier. Another benefit is the trace-ability of the code usage, offering various statistical information on the scanned QR Code. There is only one big drawback in QR Code usage, at first glance all QR Code’s look the same. Various companies jumped into this…

QR codes used by Google Now for airport check ins

12/10/201212/06/2012 Jennifer Goula

The service has taken on Passbook with additional features such as camera search. Google has announced that it will be moving ahead to develop its Google Now predictive search assistant service by adding additional useful tools which will include the use of QR codes. The previous development of the service looks as though it could have been loosely based on Apple. However, the most recent Google Search app update, which has just recently been issued, allows the application to monitor the inbox of the mobile device user’s email in order…

New Google Chrome extension makes online QR code scanning easier

12/24/201108/26/2012 Jennifer Goula

More QR codes have begun showing up on websites in recent months. While QR codes have become very popular in the world of marketing, their use on websites can be somewhat counter intuitive. The codes must be scanned by a smart phone equipped with a barcode scanning application. These apps use the phone’s camera to decipher the information embedded in the codes. The problem is that a phone’s camera can, at times, have difficulty properly viewing a computer screen, making it impossible to scan the code. A new extension for…