A dairy cow has had a QR code spray painted on its back to promote the UK dairy industry. The QR code, which is a type of souped-up barcode, can be scanned by smartphones or other specialist readers and directs users to a blog which records the cow’s daily routine. Somerby dairy farmer Jane Barnes […]
Payment for goods in store just got easier thanks to online payment service PayPal. PayPal is the familiar method of payment online, which thousands of users have as adopted as standard over the last decade or so, especially users of online marketplace eBay. So to break into the standard retail shopping arena has taken a […]
A new system of cash withdrawal has been developed by ATM manufacturer NCR and the system uses barcodes at the core of its technology. NCR are looking for a partner to help them rollout their new cash withdrawal method, which involves customers simply having their mobile phone scanned by the cash dispenser to release funds. […]
Renowned for their innovative products and applications, Apple showed developers at its recent Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco it is always looking to stay ahead of the game, with the introduction of its new Passbook app. Along with the unveiling of its flagship operating system iOS6, the company took the opportunity to showcase Passbook, […]
When any new product or service is hyped up, the furore surrounding it can detract from what the product offers. Take the recent explosion of the QR code for example. Who’d have thought that a simple grid pattern of data could have shaken the marketing world so significantly over the last few months? The jury […]
A new study from Scanbuy, the ScanLife mobile barcode developer, has shown that there has been a huge increase in traffic over the past year in the number of people using mobile phones to scan barcode labels and QR codes. The company monitors traffic for a variety of brands in the United States and through […]
Online retailer Amazon has recently brought out an app for those with Microsoft-powered handsets. This new mobile shopping gadget makes use of a barcode scanner to check retail prices in stores. It is hoped the free barcode scanning app (available from the Windows Phone Marketplace) will increase the popularity of smartphones using the Windows mobile […]
In the United States, ShopSavvy’s barcode scanning app has become very popular, with many retailers rushing to open up their inventory and pricing data to the platform so users can enjoy this mobile shopping tool to the full. Now that ShopSavvy has amassed more than 10 million users, the company has decided to relax the […]
