The holiday craze for gift tags with personalized QR codes

QR Code Gift Tags

Though gift tags may always be a part of the holiday tradition, those handwritten little tickets to which we have become so accustomed to may have become a thing of the past with the invention of personalized QR code tags. JC Penny is offering consumers Santa Tags this holiday season, providing gift-givers with the opportunity to record a voice message that the recipients will be able to hear when they unwrap their presents. This is all made possible with simple QR code technology. The way that it works is that…

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NeoMedia registers an increase of 240 percent in QR code use

QR Code

NeoMedia has announced that when compared to Black Friday in 2010, this year’s use of the app firm’s NeoReader application for barcode scanning increased by over 240 percent. They made this announcement through a recent press release, where they also stated that these two dimensional QR codes are the most popular type of barcode scanned by mobile devices, with 87 percent of scans going to them, while one dimensional barcodes received only 13 percent of scans. According to the chief executive officer at NeoMedia Technologies, Inc., Laura Marriott, retail stores…

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