Comments on: Microsoft adopts QR Code as standard for Windows Live Barcode

By: Barcode scanning on your mobile phone « Eileen’s Technology blog

Barcode scanning on your mobile phone « Eileen’s Technology blog — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:50:14 +0000

[...] done some research and even considered adopting this as a standard . Shame I can’t find a way to get my E650 to scan these yet. [...]

By: Everything and the Mobile Software Universe… » Mobile Tagging - 2D Barcode…Tag my world!

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:04:42 +0000

[...] This can be strongly related to augmented reality where the “web world” is augmenting the “real world”. Even microsoft is taking the bandwagon as described in the always good Mobile Learning Really getting an address from an advertisement right into my cellphone by taking a snapshot, or storing an appointment for a movie or a special event by taking a photo of an ad seems really valuable to me: today even with my glorified Treo with its big keyboard, I’m reluctant to loose my time entering those snippet of information. [...]

By: todd

todd — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:54:27 +0000

I have to echo Dennis. Educators should consider symbologies that were made for mobile phone optics. Dont assume QR is the right track just because it works in Japan. It is an industrial code. It was made for infrared scanners. More modern codes were made for the optics on mobile phones. Nextcodes mCode, OP3’s shotcode etc. Nextcode recently inked an impresive carrier deal in the Philippines with SMART (22 million subscrbers). Interesting to see an Asian carrier reject QR. This blog entry goes into the reasons why: http://theponderingprimate.blogspot.com/2007/01/smart-communications-licenses.html Nextcode is working with a number of carriers and advertisers on near term impelmentations.

By: Mobile Learning » Japanese food data: a model for m-learning?

Mobile Learning » Japanese food data: a model for m-learning? — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:22:51 +0000

[...] More and more people outside of Japan are catching on to the concept of encoding information that can be read by ordinary cellphones. Microsoft have only recently implemented a beta version of such a system with Windows Live Barcode; but in Japan, over 30 million people already use their mobile phones to digitally retrieve information from advertising, media, and food packaging, using QR Codes (as illustrated below). [...]

By: Paola Cabrera V.

Paola Cabrera V. — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:51:21 +0000

Just to clarify that it’s a (common) mistake to say that “…format…Semacode (a.k.a. Datamatrix)…”.
Those are two different things.
Semacode is a company, like several others, which happen to use (and develop) Datamatrix codes.
Datamatrix is THE generic/common name, and is the non-proprietary standard.
The URLs of the Semacode company are:
Non-commercial site
http://www.semacode.org/
Commercial site
http://www.semacode.com/

By: swamp thing

swamp thing — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:06:07 +0000

MSFT was given a presentation by a company who owns that connection. Neomedia Technologies is coming out with free downloadable application for the mobile device. Go to http://www.qode.com.

They do own a company called Mobot who was in Forbes as a top 25 up and coming technology.

Now how is MSFT going to ties Qode into their product?

By: David

David — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:00:37 +0000

I have started a blog devoted to the topic of mobile phone readable codes, not in the educational context but more generally. This post was one of the inspirations for getting started. Dennis from Shotcodes has already stopped by. It would be great if those with an interest in this topic could pay a visit and let me know what you think and add your wisdom.

http://www.barcodemobile.com

Thanks – David

By: allan

allan — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:41:50 +0000

There is a whole arena of relationship building tools for educators that I need to use. I’m just discovering many of them. Thanks for some direction.

The next year will be very busy.

By: Everything and the Mobile Software Universe… » Mobile Data Input: find, organize and share….

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:25:30 +0000

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By: Leonard Low

Leonard Low — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:24:25 +0000

Thank you for your comment, Dennis – I’m certainly aware of Shotcode, and in fact I think that Shotcode is possibly the most aesthetically pleasing of all of the “2D Barcode” (perhaps a new descriptor is needed – after all, they don’t really use bars anymore) formats.

I’m pushing strongly for the use of 2D digital symbologies in the Australian education sector. If you think Shotcode would like to be involved in the deployment of proximal learning approaches here – please get in touch with me (contact details here)!

At the moment, the biggest inhibitor of the take-up of the technology here is simply a lack of software. If Shotcode can develop a reliable deployment system to make Shotcode readers quickly available on Australian mobile phones (which don’t come pre-loaded with any decoding software at present), they will acquire a natural market advantage.