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Friday, August 28, 2009

Bar codes on mobile phones.

Snap it, click it, use it: The Economist (22 August 2009, p. 70) discusses 2D bar codes.

"In America and Europe, three types of bar code, called QR Code, Data Matrix and Ezcode, are likely to become common. The first two are free, open standards. Ezcode is owned by a New York-based firm called Scanbuy, but it, too, is available free, for general purposes. The firm behind it makes its money by charging advertisers and publishers when people use it."