QR Code Press

QR codes give tourists an info boost

12/30/201312/30/2013 Julie Campbell

A new promotion from the Malayalam Wikipedia will be using quick response codes to assist visitors. A new tourism promotion is taking advantage of the benefits of QR codes to be able to provide visitors with a tremendous amount of information in order to be able to enhance their experiences. The Malayalam Wikipedia is now working to make sure its information will be more readily available to tourists. The Wikipedia in this language that is primarily spoken by people in the Kerala state in India already contains almost 34,000 articles…

Nellymoser and NeoMedia offer solution to Microsoft Tags

12/18/201312/15/2013 Stephen Vagus

Tags could be replaced by QR codes and other tools Nellymoser, a company that specializes in mobile computing, has teamed with NeoMedia in order to provide a migration solution for those looking to move away from Microsoft Tags. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it would be discontinuing support for its Tag codes, which have been used in the past by several prominent brands around the world. Several large organizations, as well as their smaller counterparts, are still using Tags and are in need of a new service that can…

QR codes considered for tombstones in Arlington National Cemetery

11/25/201311/23/2013 Julie Campbell

Though quick response codes have been becoming increasingly common on gravestones, they are not permitted here. Although cemeteries are hardly known for being high tech, using the latest cutting edge technologies, QR codes have been changing that in some places across the country as these scannable barcodes have been added to tombstones. In fact, quick response codes have been a growing trend in cemeteries around the world. When QR codes were added to a war memorial cemetery in Wales, with the Duke of Kent attending the unveiling of WWI barcodes…

QR codes used by Australia Post for video messages

11/13/201311/11/2013 Julie Campbell

This new feature will allow gift senders to link videos to their parcels over the holiday season. Australia Post is currently encouraging Australians to use their new service based on QR codes to record a video of up to 15 seconds in length and link it to the parcels that they are sending to their loved ones. These videos can be accessed by the recipient by scanning the barcode with their smartphones. The QR code is added to the parcel so that the recipient will be able to use their…

QR codes could be preserved for mega-annums

11/01/201310/29/2013 Jesse Collins

Tungsten could be the solution to making sure that these barcodes will be scannable for millions of years. Researchers have now come up with a way to make sure that QR codes can store information for extremely long periods of time by using certain etching techniques to hold every bit. This involves the use of optical information carriers that will be able to withstand the test of time. The method used by the researchers to create the QR codes and to preserve both them and the information that they contain…