QR Code Press

Juchem introduced the Qkie – a cookie with its own QR code

11/04/2011 Sam Lambert

Juchem Gruppe, a German food company, has introduced a new product that can actually interact with consumers. The company has unveiled the Qkie – a small cookie with its very own edible QR code. Juchem teamed with The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence to make the codes possible. Each code is printed on edible paper, which can be placed on the cookies after they have been baked. Consumers can customize the codes to link to online content. Edible QR codes are nothing new, but Juchem is the first food…

QRSpider.com getting popular for generating Dynamic QR Code on websites and blogs

10/30/2011 Guest Post

QRSpider.com – How It Works! from QR SPider on Vimeo. QRSpider.com announced that after less than a month from its launch, 100’s of websites have already embedded its code to show dynamic QR Code on their pages. QR Code has become popular of late for its potential to hold large amounts of information and to be easily printed and scanned. QR codes is mainly used in printed advertisements and other pivotal marketing materials, allowing those who use a QR code scanner on a smart phone to quickly read a URL.…

Cleveland Restaurant Week to be given some spice with QR codes

10/18/201110/18/2011 Stephanie Beck

Next month will be host to Cleveland Restaurant Week, a major culinary event held every year in Ohio. Despite the events name, participants will have fourteen days to enjoy the various activities that will be held in Downtown Cleveland. This year, the event’s organizer, Cleveland Independents, will be incorporating the latest mobile marketing trend to engage tech-savvy attendees. The group has adopted QR codes and plans to partner with the 90 restaurants that will be participating in the event. Event organizers are currently working with local restaurants to formulate an…

UK consumers warming to QR codes, according to survey

10/07/2011 Stephen Vagus

A new survey conducted by Toluna Quick, a market research company, shows that QR codes may be more popular in the UK than they are in the U.S. Earlier this year, a report from Simpson Carpenter, another research firm based in the U.S., showed that most Americans were unaware of what QR codes actually were. The report may have cooled some of the hype surrounding the codes in the States, but UK consumers seem to be warming up to the codes in droves. According to Toluna Quick, of the 1,500…

World’s largest QR code from Hackerspace Charlotte

10/05/201110/05/2011 John Montgallo

A group of tech-savvy artists from Hackerspace Charlotte, a non-profit group of hobbyists in North Carolina, are attempting to create the world’s largest QR code on the roof of a scrap yard building. The code will be more than 10,000 square feet by the time it is finished and only discernable from the air. Whether a code of this size will actually function is not yet known, but other large-scale QR codes built in the past have been functional. When the code is completed, it will be visible via satellite…