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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…

QR codes lawsuit settled between SpyderLynk and NeoMedia

12/07/201212/05/2012 Stephanie Beck

The two companies have reached a settlement in the patent infringement suit. Two companies involved in a patent infringement lawsuit that had to do with QR codes software have reached a settlement in the case. The suit had to do with software designed for mobile phones in order to use barcodes. The two companies involved in the lawsuit are SpyderLynk LLC, which his based in Denver, and NeoMedia Technologies, Inc., which is based in Boulder. The latter has agreed to drop its claims of legal patent infringement against the former,…

QR codes on product packages still missing the mark

11/29/201211/27/2012 Julie Campbell

Some brands still fail to understand what consumers want from scanning a barcode. It has become commonplace to see QR codes on many products throughout the grocery store shelves, but while marketers seem very keen to place the barcodes on package labels, they aren’t always focused on the benefit that their use will provide consumers. Cereal boxes provide prime marketing real estate, but the barcodes placed upon them aren’t performing. The problem isn’t that consumers don’t want to scan QR codes. Instead, it is that the barcodes that they do…

QR codes and NFC could threaten Samsung smartphones with malicious code

09/26/201209/26/2012 Jesse Collins

A single line of coding has been discovered that can wipe the devices back to factory settings. The latest mobile news has shaken some owners of Samsung smartphone devices, as they discover that activities as simple as visiting an mcommerce website, scanning QR codes, or using NFC transactions could be enough to wipe all of the saved data and settings from their devices. The tiny piece of coding is enough to return the phones back to their original status. The malicious coding has so far been reported as being able…

QR codes to be the center of a new program from the Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce

09/03/201209/02/2012 L. Green

Local businesses will receive assistance in integrating these barcodes into their mcommerce strategies. Businesses will be able to receive a lesson in the use and implementation of QR codes from the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce by attending an educational presentation that will run from 8am to 9am on September 27. The presentation about quick response codes will be located in Wisconsin Rapids, at 1120 Lincoln St. The co-sponsorship of this event is from Cellcom and from Element Mobile. The purpose is to help local businesses to make important…