Category QR Code

QR Code, Datamatrix and other two dimensional barcode news and analysis.

The A-Team Home Improvements Company’s QR Move

As the world continues to marvel at, explore and criticize the use of QR Codes as marketing tools, yet another American company have started to promote its business with a QR Code. A Louisiana home improvement company A-Team Home Improvements Company, have apparently fallen under the spell of this amazing technology too. While the way [...]

Applied DNA Sciences Uses QR Codes for digitalDNA Applied DNA Sciences has come up with digitalDNA, a tool that helps you authenticate products with a unique botanical DNA to prevent counterfeiting. It has a tremendous impact and a lot of uses, but there’s a problem: you would need a special scanner to decode the unique [...]

It is a no brainer that the postal departments from all around the world are suffering from low volume of mails. Not only are people sending emails now, they are completely online on their mobile phones, utilizing instant messaging systems to stay in touch with their friends and family members. With such instant means of [...]

Peapod, an online grocery store, has launched a mobile shopping campaign that makes use of quick response codes. L Transit commuters in Chicago can scan the QR codes that Peapod has made available at the State and Lake Station Tunnel to download Peapod’s mobile shopping ads. The QR codes are found next to virtual grocery [...]

The proliferation of counterfeit products is a huge problem for manufacturers. A CBS News article relates that 2.5 million containers arrive yearly at the Port of New York and New Jersey alone, containing nothing but counterfeit goods. These counterfeit items equate to multi-billion losses to the legitimate manufacturers. The CBS News report also says that [...]

It is a well known fact by now that Instagram now belongs to Facebook. While it continues to be fuzzy on the integration part and how Instagram continues to look and feel ‘separate’ from the main function of Facebook, we do feel that the two apps are slowly coming together. Facebook, for many of us, [...]

Nintendo has just announced several special games mode in Mario Tennis Open last month. But it seems that the surprises for the upcoming game does not end there. The soon to be released game will have unlockable characters, which you could get by scanning special QR codes or by playing the game. Mario Tennis Open [...]

The issue on QR code security just won’t die. You are probably sick and tired of hearing about how QR codes are not safe to scan because they can direct scanners to malware or malicious sites. But we will never get tired of assuring marketers and consumers alike that QR codes can do you no [...]

You could say that QR Codes helped level the playing field for small and medium-sized businesses. Instead of having to fight an uneven battleground with large cash-rich businesses, they are now armed with the same powerful tool that is not only cost-effective but also mobile. Because of how flexible the technology and system is, everyone [...]

Ontario’s tender fruit producers can now get quick response codes from the marketing board to attach to their packaging. These QR codes direct customers to relevant information about the fruit products. These QR codes are in lieu of the Ontario Tender Fruit Producers Marketing Board’s newly launched website. The site provides the tender fruit growers [...]