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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Cell Phone News and Reviews


How-to: Scan QR codes

Posted: 18 May 2011 07:17 PM PDT

QR codes storing addresses and Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) may appear in magazines, on signs, buses, business cards, or almost any object about which users might need information. Users with a camera phone equipped with the correct reader application can scan the image of the QR code to display text, contact information, connect to a wireless network, or open a web page in the phone's browser. This act of linking from physical world objects is termed hardlinking or object hyperlinking.

QR code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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How-to: Scan High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB)

Posted: 18 May 2011 06:27 PM PDT

~High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) AKA: Microsoft Tag is the name coined by Microsoft for its technology of encoding data in a2D "barcode" using a palette of 4 or 8 colors for the triangles up to a max 3,500 characters per square inch. HCCB also permits the use of black and white. HCCB is not intended to replace traditional barcodes/ QR
~The Microsoft Tag reader application gives people the ability to use a mobile phone's on-board camera to take a picture of a tag, sends the HCCB data to a Microsoft server, which then returns the publisher's intended URL information in any form, such as text, vCard, URL, Online Photos, Online Video or contact details.

~Microsoft Tag reader >>> Download the Tag Reader
Tag Reader is an Online application. It uses your phone's data plan - normal charges apply.
Microsoft Tag reader is compatible for Internet-capable mobile devices, including many based on the Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Java, Android, Symbian S60, iPhone and Java ME platforms

Source: High Capacity Color Barcode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The HCCB code is used to videos and URLs by various magazines such as Health magazine.


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