Latest QR Code Stories

RE/MAX Northern Illinois, an independently owned and privately held RE/MAX region, which encompasses the top third of the state of Illinois, recently introduced property videos and virtual tours to its popular mobile website, m.illinoisproperty.com. It is one of the first real estate brokerages to incorporate these two popular property features into a mobile search platform. (PRWEB) June 12, 2011 RE/MAX Northern Illinois, an independently owned and privately held RE/MAX region, which...

PHOENIXVILLE, Pa., June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Center for the Arts & Technology (CAT) Pickering Campus has seen the future of yearbooks and it is small black-and-white squares. Reminiscent of a Rorschach inkblot or a supermarket barcode, QR (Quick Response) codes have popped up everywhere, on a Calvin Klein billboard in Times Square, on packages of Sun-Maid Raisins and now within the pages of The Shield. Opening the door toward endless multimedia possibilities, CAT...

NEW YORK, June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- News America Marketing, the premier publisher of coupons in the U.S. and Canada, producing over 165 billion coupons annually, today announced that QR codes have been added to all its online coupons, giving store personnel the ability to validate them at checkout and detect fraudulent couponing activity, simply by using standard smartphones. News America Marketing (NAM), a division of News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS), operates the popular online consumer...

LOS ANGELES, June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Superior Lithographics, California's leading large-format packaging printer, today launched FirstTouch(TM), an all-in-one interactive packaging solution that slashes the costs and complexity of marketing products to consumers using Quick Response (QR) technology and the mobile web. With FirstTouch(TM), retail packaged goods companies can easily add QR codes to make their current packaging interactive with a fully branded, fully hosted mobile web...

NEW YORK, June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Scanbuy, Inc. (www.scanbuy.com), the global leader in mobile barcode solutions, today announced that it is providing a dynamic QR (quick response) code solution for Ford Motor Company's "Ford Focus Hunt." The promotion is the latest example of how major brands and events - including Bluefly, Miller Lite, The Home Depot and the Tribeca Film Festival - rely on Scanbuy for mobile barcode solutions that enable interactive campaigns and...

BOCA RATON, Fla., May 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Memorial Day 2011 has inspired an idea to place not only wreaths and flags, but decorated QR-type codes called "Tagitaphs" (www.tagitaph.com) on the headstones of U.S. soldiers who paid the ultimate price for freedom. QR Codes yield a depth of content with a snap of a mobile phone picture, says Tom Madden, CEO of TransMedia Group who patented Knife and Forklift (www.knifeandforklift.com) and other inventions. QR "scancodes" as they are...

SAN DIEGO, May 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As a result of skyrocketing smartphone usage among consumers, QR codes are increasingly being incorporated in marketing campaigns, advertisements and promotions. As a result, more and more consumers are seeing QR codes within the magazines, brochures and websites they read on a daily basis. "We're seeing that people often get excited to scan the QR codes due to the mystery of what is behind them and to see what they ultimately reveal. To keep...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A newly launched website, Barcode Gallery (www.barcodegallery.com) is taking the "Art of the Barcode" to a new level. On this site, users are able to create customized and personalized pieces of modern art leveraging the growingly popular QR Barcode technology. The end result is the creation of a ready-to-hang piece of colorful modern art that contains an embedded message that can be decoded by observers using camera-equipped smartphones....

Go Mobile Tag lets users create their own QR Codes and MS Tags in real time. Orlando, FL (PRWEB) May 02, 2011 Right Brain Media is proud to announce the launch of Go Mobile Tag, a digital mobile marketing solution created by Right Brain Media that lets users create and manage their own interactive QR Code and MS Tag campaigns in minutes. With rich multimedia features and sophisticated administrative functionality and analytics, Go Mobile Tag is a state of the art application that can...

Today, more and more industries are adopting the use of two-dimensional or 2D bar codes. The benefits of two-dimensional bar codes include the ability to incorporate more information in the code, offer higher levels of security and usually produce fewer printing issues. New user-interactive applications such as mobile marketing, mobile ticketing, electronic coupons and loyalty clubs, typically feature 2D Quick Response or QR codes, which requires a 2D bar code scanner for reading. Eugene,...