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Sunday, September 30, 2012

WordPress › Social QR Code Scan Me Anywhere « WordPress ...

Automatic generate Quick Response Code (QR) for your blog and allowed user quickly scan the QR code and find out more information about your website.

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Bop Design Discusses QR Codes and How B2B Firms Can Use Them

Bop Design discusses how mobile browsing and QR codes presents an excellent opportunity for B2B firms to more effectively engage with prospects.

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QR Codes For Headstones Keep Dearly Departed Close

Printed onto that square is a QR code — that square digital bar code you can scan with a smartphone. Miller peels off the back of her square to expose the adhesive and pushes it into place. The headstone, which otherwise looks the same as many others ...

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Codgigo Cube Review






You open the app and scan any side of the die, which has a QR code on each side and each code is a different color. After you scan the die, it opens up the game main screen on your phone where you start the game. Your first choice is to pick the game ...

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Android Hack Can Erase All Data From Your Phone






Heads up if you own an Android smartphone: A nasty attack has surfaced that can erase all the data on your phone—contacts, photos, everything—with a line of code hiding in a website you visit or one delivered via text message, NFC tag or QR code.

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

QR Codes For Headstones Keep Dearly Departed Close






Lorie Miller bends over her grandparents' grave in north Philadelphia. She holds a two-inch brass square she's going to attach next to the headstone's names and dates. Printed onto that square is a QR code — that square digital bar code you can scan ...

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iQR Codes: Make Creative QR Codes to Go Anywhere | Mac ...

QR codes are kind of ubiquitous now, but they all sort of look the same. For the most part, you can expect a QR code to be black and squarish, boring and samey.

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Where is the strangest place you've seen a QR code?

QR codes. They've been around for a long while now, but I can honestly say that I wasn't expecting them to become so common place. I see them everywhere now. Even just last year, I would have said that QR codes are similar to augmented reality. It ...

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Ms. Cheap: Belly up to a bar code scanner for deals

“Most commonly, the code will unlock a mobile website, play a video, add a contact to your address book, text a friend or even refill a prescription,” she said. Check out this demo video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaxIGE0UM_0) by AT&T to see mobile bar ...

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Friday, September 28, 2012

QR codes tested by fire department in new emergency program






Across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, this county's fire department began looking into the design of a program that would incorporate QR codes and that could be piloted over a year in an attempt to help to provide an enhanced safety ...

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Why You Should Start Using QR Codes In Your Classroom

I'll admit QR codes were a bit of a mystery to me until recently. I've seen the funny little codes in magazines and advertisements, and I understood that if you had an app on your phone you could scan them and get...somewhere. Beyond that I ...

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Defective iPhone 5 ships to customer with QR code confirmation ...

Sep. 28, 2012 - Every electronic device that is sold goes through some kind of quality control process. Devices are poked and prodded in an assembly line, and the ones that.

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QR Codes Used in Searches for Missing Children

Will QR codes become the next tool in the fight against child abduction?

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PHP Master | Generate QR Codes in PHP

Used widely in various recent applications, QR Codes can be seen on cola cans, business cards, in sushi bars, and in museums. QR Code is a 2-dimensional barcode specification that was invented in Japan. It is patented. but it's inventor, ...

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Receipt, Please! Paying For Dinner With QR Code-Reading ...

Bank of America is trying to carve out a slice of the $171 billion global payments market with a new technology that would allow you to pay at a store by scanning a QR code on your smartphone, Reuters reports.The technology, provided by ...

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QR codes on clothing converts college students into advertising






The poll found that 46 percent of the people who took part had scanned QR codes simply because they were “curious” about where it would lead. Jossle, a startup from Babson, Massachusetts, had its own curiosity piqued by this survey outcome, and it has ...

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Defective iPhone 5 ships to customer with QR code confirmation






The screenshot in question contained a QR code that stored all of the information about the users device, right down to nano-SIM that was included. Above, the QR code is a big stop sign shaped red icon with the Chinese symbol for stop in the center.

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Would people bother using QR codes on energy bills?

To compare energy tariffs, he suggested, “The QR codes could push consumers to a mobile website that shows their energy usage (tied in to the presented bill) and associated cost that they are paying, alongside comparison costs from other energy firms ...

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Webscape: How QR codes could keeping your property safe






Belon.gs is a global lost and found service that uses QR code stickers to mark an item, allowing you to tag it in a database in the hope that someone honest will find it, log on to the website and get it back to you. Safeknight is a smartphone app that ...

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Scanbuy Touts Success Of 'First Mobilized Olympics'






Along with world-class athletes and aging British pop stars, the Summer Olympics in London provided a high-profile showcase for QR codes. Scanbuy, maker of the ScanLife barcode reader, was the official supplier of code services to the Olympics ...

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Launched today: FinderCodes QR Code Tech | Gear Diary

Launched today: FinderCodes QR Code Tech. In the main, I keep up with tech stuff. Partly it's my job, not just as a Gear Diary contributor, but also because my “day job” is in high-tech, and keeping up is pretty key. But one thing that I've ...

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Bank of America testing QR Code scanning mobile payment system ...

Mobile payment is still a bit of a wild west at the moment, and seemingly every technological and financial institution has a dog in this fight. Bank of.

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QR codes can now be used for digital billing with proper guidelines






NACHA has now come up with the bill payment standard that has been long awaited. NACHA – the Council for Electronic Billing and Payment (CEBP) at the Electronic Payments Association – has now unveiled the long awaited guidelines for using QR codes ...

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Social Marketing Platform Woobox Lets Businesses Send Apple Passbook ...

And most importantly, it means that businesses of all sizes can get onboard with Passbook, even if they don't have point-of-sale equipment capable of scanning QR codes, like the big-brand Passbook early adopters (Walgreens, Target, airlines, etc.) do.

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St. Louis Video Production Company Leverages The Power of QR Codes

"I was brainstorming with one of the marketing gurus over at the shopping cart company that we sell our videos through, and the subject of QR codes came up. That's when the light went off! So we decided to apply QR code technology as a way for ...

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QR Codes Used in Searches for Missing Children






This QR code was placed it on press releases, fliers, posters and websites to direct people to a site dedicated to finding Stephen Watkins' sons, who were abducted by their mother in March of 2009.

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Bank of America tests QR code mobile-payment service

The QR codes could be displayed at the register in a store when a customer is checking out, or a restaurant could print the code on the check, allowing patrons to scan their bills right at the table and pay without ever handing over a credit card or cash.

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Local Startup Turns College Students Into Walking Billboards With QR-Coded ...

Market research and consulting firm Chadwick Martin Bailey polled nearly 1,300 people about why they scan QR codes. Forty-six percent responded it was because they were “curious,” and it's that curiosity Babson-born startup Jossle is now trying to ...

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Design With QR Codes






I have been having fun with a new online tool that let's you turn any image or design into a QR Code. Startup Visualead has created a quick and easy platform that allows users to upload any image and turn it into a visually striking QR Code using the ...

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Purported quality control QR code left behind in new iPhone 5's camera roll






Purported quality control QR code left behind in new iPhone 5's camera roll. By Mikey Campbell. A never before seen image of what looks to be a QR code generated after some type of test was found in the camera roll of a straight-from-the-factory iPhone ...

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

3.3m UK consumers scanned a QR code in Q2 | Econsultancy

More than 3m UK consumers used their smartphone to scan QR codes in Q2, according to new data from a comScore survey of 15000 consumers.

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My Android Device Is Vulnerable to a 'Dirty USSD' Hack, Now What?

the code can be spread through legit-looking URL, an NFC attack, or a malicious QR code. The most threatening USSD code, a factory reset, was specific to Samsung TouchWiz phones and has already been disabled by Samsung. However, there are many ...

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QR codes central to Royal Canadian Mint's challenge winner






The challenge created by the Royal Canadian Mint was designed in order to encourage the development of an app that will clearly illustrate the advantages of using digital funds over actual cash, and was met with a winner that used QR codes as the heart ...

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City Council Passes Bill to Require QR Codes in Restaurants ...

For any Midtown Lunch'ers who happen to a) regularly utilize QR codes to find out information or b) deeply care about restaurant health code violations when.

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A Great New Idea You'll Never Use: NYC's Required QR Codes For ...

This week, the New York City Council passed a bill that requires all city buildings with permits of any kind--think restaurants, bars, and daycare centers--to provide QR codes that link back to more detailed information. So by fall 2013, you'll be ...

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AV Chiado / Turismo de Portugal: QR Code | Ads of the World™

The idea was simple; Launch a QR code, one of the most innovative technologies of the XXI century, made by Portuguese cobblestones, one of the most ancient Portuguese traditions. From the fusion between technology and historical ...

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Olympic first for Sochi 2014 as they launch stamp with QR code

"We have taken a step into the future with the launch of Sochi 2014 stamp with QR code incorporated, which is the first of its kind both in the history of Russia and the Olympic Movement," said Dmitry Chernyshenko, the President and chief executive of ...

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QR codes and NFC could threaten Samsung smartphones






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 ...

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Fire Department Tests QR Codes for Citizen Medical Data






QR codes — which resemble a bar code — gained attention in city government in 2009, when Manor, Texas, CIO Dustin Haisler led efforts to have them placed throughout the city so residents and visitors could learn more about a location that held a QR code.

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A Great New Idea You'll Never Use: NYC's Required QR Codes For City Buildings






This week, the New York City Council passed a bill that requires all city buildings with permits of any kind--think restaurants, bars, and daycare centers--to provide QR codes that link back to more detailed information. So by fall 2013, you'll be able ...

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QR Code DNA Art






Ottawa's all night public arts and culture extravaganza (Nuit Blanche) included a digital sign outside the Ottawa School of Art displaying a rapid sequence of QR Codes. Each code resolved to a snippet of the human genome at the rate of 15 QR Codes per ...

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The QR Code E-billing Guidelines are now available!






qr code The QR Code E billing Guidelines are now available! To continue to provide the electronic payments industry with leading edge products, processes and solutions, NACHA (The Electronic Payments Association's Council for Electronic Billing and ...

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Remote wipe vulnerability found on Android phones

Borgaonkar suggested the vulnerability could be mitigated by turning off the Service Loading feature to prevent USSD codes from executing via SMS, and also to uninstall popular barcode scanner applications like QR Droid. He also suggested users turn ...

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Soon We Will All Be QR Coded






Last year Mayor Bloomberg promised that QR codes on all construction site signs was "just the beginning" and he meant it. Yesterday the City Council passed legislation that requires any city agency that has more information online than on a permit ...

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Professor develops invisible QR code

A University of South Dakota professor has helped create an invisible version of the Quick Response (QR) code. Stanley May, professor of chemistry at USD, along with Jon Kellar and William Cross, professors of materials and metallurgical engineering at ...

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Malicious Code In NFC And QR Wipes Out Samsung Smartphones






The code could be encoded in NFC tags or QR codes, leaving Samsung users to unknowingly wipe their devices as soon as their phone receives it. Once the code has set in, users can only sit and watch as their phone starts the resetting process. So far ...

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All NYC Permits Get A QR Code

Last year's introduction of QR Codes by the New York City Department of Buildings on all building permits must have been a success. Yesterday New York City Council unanimously passed a bill that requires every city agency that issues ...

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Samsung phones vulnerable to factory reset hack

At the Ekoparty security conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last week, Technical University of Berlin researcher Ravi Borgaonkar demonstrated how a text message, NFC connection or QR code could cause a Android phone running Samsung's ...

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Multiple Samsung handsets vulnerable to remote wipe hack

As Slashgear tells us, the process can be enabled in multiple ways, including NFC, QR code, or pushed from a Web site. Once initiated, the factory wipe cannot be canceled or undone. What's more, the user will not receive any advance warning or ...

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QR codes rolled out for all Sina Weibo users






It is also hoped that members will use the QR codes on their business cards in order to draw even more attention to their activities online as well as to Sina Weibo itself. This is not the first mobile barcode feature of this nature that has been ...

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Soon Sanitary Inspection Horrors Will Be Just a QR Code Away






Sanitary inspection letter grades make a great rule of thumb, but sometimes you want to know exactly what knocked that diner down from a B to a C. For those times, thanks to a new law, there'll be QR codes. The Daily News reports that the City Council ...

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Ed Tech: QR Codes

Third grade teacher Briana Hawks says the "Quick Response Codes" are just a fast way to get extra information. She has set her sights high. She says, “My eventual hope is to have all thousand books have QR Codes on the back of them, so it might take a ...

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Samsung Galaxy S III remote data-wipe hack reportedly discovered [Updated]






The hack was detailed by Ravi Borgaonkar at the Ekoparty security conference, with a simple USSD code – that could be sent from a website, or pushed to the handset by NFC or triggered by a QR code – that can reset the Galaxy S III or indeed other ...

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Monday, September 24, 2012

QR codes to give NYers more info on city permits

The City Council voted on legislation that would require many city issued permits, licenses, and registrations which are posted publically to include QR code technology so that consumers are able to get acces to further information online through the ...

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New York is going to start putting QR codes on city permits

The City Council unanimously passed a bill Monday that requires every city agency that has inspection, permit, license or registration information online to post a QR code linking to it. Council Speaker Christine Quinn said the bill was created to ...

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Using QR Codes for Marketing | LionLeaf, LLC Official Blog

Quick Response (QR) codes are, without a doubt, one of the most popular forms of advertising in recent years. Perhaps you've seen these familiar black and white.

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QR code use in Spain skyrockets by 218 percent






A comScore study has looked into the use of QR code technology throughout the EU5 countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom) and has found that smartphone users in Spain are increasing their scans at a rate that is much faster ...

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Chamber's new mobile app includes deals function for Windsorites

To download the app, scan the QR code or search Windsor, Colo. in the Apple App or Android Google Play stores. More. There's a new way for Windsorites to keep track of all their favorite businesses; the Windsor Chamber of Commerce's new mobile app.

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QR codes usage grows in Europe, but not so much in the UK






The data which looks at the usage of QR codes on smartphones across the five leading European markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) shows users scanning QR codes with a smartphone in these countries has grown by 96% in ...

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QR codes used for door locks drawing significant attention

QR codes are already being used in a number of different ways to allow smartphone users to bridge the gap between reality and the digital world. The devices themselves are already making many different common items relatively obsolete, such as printed ...

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300 Million QR Codes






Chinese micro-blogging site Sina Weibo rolled out a QR Code feature this morning for their 300 million plus registered users. From today every user can generate a customized QR Code for their account from their PC or from within the Sina Weibo Android ...

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Sina Weibo Rolls Out Social QR Codes For All Users






To scan or create your own QR code, you can log on to your Sina Weibo account within the Android or iPhone app (version 3.1.0 only) and hit the “contacts” button. Click on “Find a contact” and the QR code feature can be found at the top. For folks who ...

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Codes carved in stone tell tale of deceased

QR codes, essentially barcodes that can be scanned with smartphones or QR scanners, allow users to pull up information on the internet and are frequently used in advertising and marketing campaigns, and are now being brought into the world's cemeteries.

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DG3's Val Digiacinto gives insight into the effective use of QR codes

And we're just going to discuss a little bit my passion about the use of QR Codes. We're one of the country's leading suppliers of QR Codes and mobile marketing, and we're very passionate about how we feel the QR Code execution should really be ...

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SD scientists create nanotech invisible ink

Quick-response codes, which can hold up to 100 times more information than a traditional bar code, have grown in popularity in part because they can be scanned with smartphones. Invisible QR codes could be used to verify documents or monitor remote ...

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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Mobile payments success will rely on improved compatibility






While one business may require consumers to scan QR codes, another needs a wave of an NFC enabled device over a reader. With this lack of consistency, consumers are finding themselves confused, and a service that is meant to help to provide ease, ...

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Record Breaking QR Code

A vast corn maze is the world's largest Quick Response code - and if you happen to overfly it you can discover that it works. Have QR codes finally found the field they were invented for? QR codes are the two-dimensional barcodes that you can scan with ...

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QR codes are being scanned 96 percent more this year






It included the usage of QR codes in the five largest markets in Europe (Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Italy). What it discovered was that three out of every four scans of these mobile barcodes resulted in the receipt of product ...

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QR-Code Hotel Room by Antoine Peters

QR codes link to pornography at this hotel room by Antoine Peters.

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Friday, September 21, 2012

Get lost in these 5 amazing corn mazes






There were tense moments when the family went up in a helicopter to scan the maze for the first time and found the QR code didn't work. The problem? Not enough contrast between the green corn and the dark paths QR codes are usually black and white, ...

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QR code opens doors to you - Hack a Day






[Jeremy Blum] wrote in to share his LibeTech QR Code Door Lock project. He developed it ...

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QR codes scanned by 3.3 million consumers in the United Kingdom






The second quarter of 2012 showed tremendous popularity for the mobile barcodes. The latest study regarding the QR code scanning behaviors of smartphone users has revealed that the second quarter of this year was a busy one in the United Kingdom.

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QR code scanning rises 218% in Spain

QR codes are becoming more commonplace in magazines and outdoor advertising across Europe. Within the EU5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom), more than 17 million smartphone users scanned a QR code in the second quarter of ...

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QR Code hotel room reveals porn

They cover almost every available surface: the floors. The walls. The bed. The curtains. It appears quite innocent, if a little busy, but the QR Code hotel room, designed by Amsterdam's Antoine Peters, conceals behind every code a sexy surprise: pin-up ...

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Quick responses give entrepreneur ticket to her success






QR, or Quick Response, codes are appearing more often on print ads and other media. Smartphone users swipe the QR code and are transported to digital media with additional information about the products or services advertised. A light in Ms. Yaney's ...

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Gibraltar targets tourists with Wikipedia QR codes






QR codes store text, phone numbers, email addresses and calendar events, and once scanned, create links to websites or generate some interactive content on your smartphone's screen. A QR code in Monmouth Monmouth in Wales became the world's first ...

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QR-Code Hotel Room by Antoine Peters

QR codes link to pornography at this hotel room by Antoine Peters.

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QR code use soaring in Europe

The company surveyed the five leading markets in Europe - the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain - and revealed that the number of smartphone users scanning QR codes on their devices jumped 96 per cent in the last 12 months. Some 17.4 million ...

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LibeTech Uses QR Codes as Door Keys: Convenient or Dangerous?






Say you have a hotel reservation. All you have to do is go to a website, log in and the hotel will send you a QR code. libetech qr code door key 2. When you get to your room, just show the QR code to the webcam at the door and you're in. You don't even ...

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3.3m UK consumers scanned a QR code in Q2






QR codes are now common in outdoor marketing campaigns and in magazines, so it seems likely that 1 in 10 UK smartphone owners has scanned one of the codes. However, in an online survey carried out with TolunaQuick in October 2011 we found that ...

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QR Codes Spice Up Hotel Room






This week saw the opening of the new Modez Hotel in the Dutch town of Arnhem, with its 20 rooms individually designed by Dutch fashion designers. Antoine Peters, who graduated cum laude at the Art Academy in Arnhem, designed Room 6 which is entirely ...

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QR codes to receive new attention from Doxo






Consumers around the world are seeing QR codes everywhere they look these days and a growing number have started to scan them with their smartphones to see what they're all about, but they're now being used with a new angle by Doxo.

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High Interest: Sept. 20

QR Code Clues (bring your smartphone and your smarts!). During the walk, you will scan a QR code like the Chamber's QR Code. The QR Code will give you clues to your destination. When you arrive at that destination, you will scan the next QR Code and so ...

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3.3m UK consumers scanned a QR code in Q2, says comScore






More than 3m UK consumers used their smartphone to scan QR codes in Q2, according to new data from comScore. This equates to 11.4% of the total smartphone audience and represents a year-on-year growth of 43%. But the data suggests that other ...

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QR Codes Pose Security Risk, Becoming Obsolete Experts Claim






... Andy Patrizio, technologyguide.com Contributor PUBLISHED: 9/18/2012. QR codes have pre-dated their most common usage cases by decades, and just as we are getting to know them, some pundits are predicting the demise of the blocky scanner codes.

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