| Officials in Rio de Janeiro have begun embedding quick response (QR) codes into pavements to guide tourists around the city. The black and white codes are being built with the same stones used to decorate the pavements with more traditional mosaic ... See all stories on this topic » |  BBC News |
| The popularity of QR codes among marketers and smartphone users is rapidly growing due to their cost effectiveness and because they can be scanned by these very common mobile devices. However, the actual appearance of the barcodes is relatively ... See all stories on this topic » |  QR Code Press |
| The city plans to install 30 of the codes at beaches and historic sites. The codes offer tourists more information about the most visited spots such as Ipanema beach. QR codes were first designed for the automotive industry in Japan in 1994 but in ... See all stories on this topic » | BBC News |
| Biggest human QR code Mission Hills China The largest human barcode was formed by 2,000 people at the Mission Hills luxury golf and spa resort. On the grounds of the largest golf facility in the world, Mission Hills Shenzhen, in China, the 2,000 ... See all stories on this topic » |  QR Code Press |
| sidewalk qr codes QR Codes Embedded On Brazilian Sidewalks We have seen our fair share of creative QR code use in the past, but this time around, another innovative use has been spotted on the traditional mosaic sidewalks of Rio De Janeiro in Brazil. See all stories on this topic » |  Ubergizmo |
| Have you heard of augmented reality? Augmented reality (AR) is kind of like a QR code on steroids. I have to admit, prior to yesterday I'd never heard of it but this technology has been out there for a few years. Last year, Esquire magazine published ... See all stories on this topic » |  Mother Nature Network (blog) |
| QR codes have long been powerful marketing tools for advertisers looking to engage mobile consumers. The codes have been growing beyond the boundaries of marketing, however, and have been entering the realm of mobile commerce. QR codes are ... See all stories on this topic » |  QR Code Press |
 | Few technologies linger in perpetual potential like QR codes, and Visualead hopes to change ... www.mediabistro.com/.../visualead-a-better-looking-qr-code_... |
| On buildings, coins and even clothes, QR codes have invaded just about every possible space — sometimes with questionable utility. New QR codes popping up in Brazil might actually be useful while blending in with their surroundings. Black and white ... See all stories on this topic » |  DVICE |
| Now, anybody with any type of smartphone, using any QR code reader on the market, can scan the QR code on your phone and instantly receive your file or files. The only exception is when sending money, both sender and receiver must use Xsync, which is ... See all stories on this topic » |  QR Code Press |
| The city installed its first QR code Friday at Arpoador, the massive boulder that separates Copacabana and Ipanema beaches. Pavers embedded the barcode into the sidewalk just like the decorative waves and fish nearby, and it can be scanned by anyone ... See all stories on this topic » |  International Business Times |
| SHENZHEN, China -- Some 2,000 employees of luxury golf and spa resort Mission Hills came together to form a gigantic real life QR Code by staff carrying umbrellas, in an effort to promote eco-tourism to the world and to make sustainable tourism a ... See all stories on this topic » |  World Record Academy |
| German Maestro took the opportunity at CES to unveil a new program that has been created to assist retailers with more appealing and practical consumer education through the use of QR codes. See all stories on this topic » |  QR Code Press |
| The first two-dimensional bar codes, or QR codes, as they're known, were installed on Friday at Arpoador, a massive boulder that rises at the end of Ipanema beach. The image was built into the pavement with the same black and white stones that decorate ... See all stories on this topic » |  Telegraph.co.uk |
| Rio de Janeiro is using QR Code mosaics in sidewalks to provide tourist information in 30 locations throughout the city, including the famous walkways overlooking Copacabana and Ipanema beach. The QR Codes resolve to a mobile site providing ... See all stories on this topic » |  2d-code |
| Mobile marketers are beginning to realize that there are certain ways to use QR codes that will be entirely uninteresting to consumers, or that will draw interest but be virtually impossible to use. A growing number of marketers who use these barcodes ... See all stories on this topic » |  QR Code Press |
| I can think of few things in technology as widely detested as the QR code. Israeli startup Visualead understands that problem and is looking to make them more palatable with the release of a new revision to its visual QR code standard. Visualead says ... See all stories on this topic » |  The Next Web |
| Associated Press/Silvia Izquierdo - A two-dimensional bar code, or QR code, as they're known, made from black and white stones covers a sidewalk near the beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. …more The QR codes are being placed at ... See all stories on this topic » |  Yahoo! News (blog) |
 | Missing Children Argentina receives an average of 3 calls a day from people reporting missing ... www.creativeguerrillamarketing.com/.../how-qr-code-marketi... |
| Barcodes help missing children to be found in Buenos Aires. An organization in Argentina has seen the opportunity presented by QR codes and has chosen to take advantage of the technology to assist them in reaching their goals more effectively. See all stories on this topic » |  QR Code Press |
| If you are a Tourism Bureau this may be a fun idea worth thinking about. SunExpress (jointly owned by Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa) is running a QR Code scavenger hunt in Istanbul (images below). Under the title “Crack the Code” the QR Code posters ... See all stories on this topic » |  2d-code |
| At the moment, QR codes from this organization can be found in spaces such as parks and other areas where parents will bring their children to play in Buenos Aires. This technique takes advantage of the fact that these barcodes are becoming far more ... See all stories on this topic » | QR Code Press |
| Know who'll see your QR code. While millions of Americans use smartphones, some use them more than others. Proportionately, about twice as many Millennials, age 18 to 29, own smartphones (66 percent) as their parents' generation (34 percent), age 50 to ... See all stories on this topic » |  Examiner.com |
| McDonald's is embracing QR codes to provide its customers with new information concerning the food the restaurant chain provides. The company chose to make use of QR codes because of their information distribution capabilities. McDonald's has taken ... See all stories on this topic » |  QR Code Press |
| QR Codes often get a bad rap, mainly because they are misused. Marketers like to write articles claiming that QR Codes are bad, useless or even dead. But, here's the thing – if we went by these types of arguments, we wouldn't use any of the marketing ... See all stories on this topic » |  Business 2 Community |
| Bandera Blanca Missing Children an Argentinian charity for missing children, is using QR Codes in a novel way to involve parents in helping to locate them. The QR Codes are placed in the main parks of Buenos Aires where parents bring their children to ... See all stories on this topic » |  2d-code |
| Chevrolet QR Codes for Electric car In response to the need for answers to many questions, the auto manufacturer has gone smartphone friendly. The Chevy Volt, an electric vehicle, has been attracting a growing amount of attention since its release, so ... See all stories on this topic » |  QR Code Press |
| The mobile payment system simply allows plug-in vehicle owners to pay for charging by scanning a QR code with their smartphones. This eliminates the need to swipe a credit card or to call customer support to submit payment information over the phone. See all stories on this topic » |  PluginCars.com |
| The QR codes are the company's response to the desire that consumers have expressed to be able to access nutrition information quickly and easily. According to the chief brand officer of McDonald's, Kevin Newell, “Customers tell us they want to know ... See all stories on this topic » |  QR Code Press |
| I have three QR Code maxims that I sometimes need to recite when a client runs an idea past me for a new QR Code campaign. I have reproduced them here to help anyone who is considering using a QR Code for their business. Before you proceed with ... See all stories on this topic » |  2d-code |
| The Catholic Health Association has come up with a new and unique configuration for using QR codes, and implemented it at its 2012 Catholic Health Assembly, successfully saving both time and money, while making things more convenient for its attendees. See all stories on this topic » |  QR Code Press |
| Although I like the idea of the cards, the QR code sticker is a smart move on GM's part to address misconceptions about the car with its large battery and gas generator. Instead of scanning the QR code and simply being taken to the Volt's website, the ... See all stories on this topic » |  GigaOM |
| The QR codes are made out of faux marble. Eight of them have been positioned into the sidewalk in various parts of the Gangnam district of the city. They have been selected to help smartphone and tablet using tourists to be able to discover more about ... See all stories on this topic » |  QR Code Press |
| There were 5,000 consumer participants in the study, which reported that there is an average use of QR codes of 15 percent among all age groups. Moreover, among those within the age group of 18 to 34 years old, 27 percent said that they had used their ... See all stories on this topic » |  QR Code Press |
| Instead of scanning the QR code and simply being taken to the Volt's website, the code points to a phone-friendly YouTube video showing how the Volt works. The video quality is only 360p resolution so it's not going to eat up gobs of mobile broadband data. See all stories on this topic » | GigaOM |
