Later this year, it will introduce apps that use 2-D barcodes for mobile marketing campaigns.
Ilze explains that they are scanning barcodes from contracts of cell phones that have been delivered.
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Dr Hebert hopes to have half a million barcodes available online within the next five years.
All she asks in exchange for identifying mosquitoes is a copy of their barcodes.
Goggles is particularly useful for pinpointing landmarks while Shopper focuses on matching images and barcodes to products.
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Barcodes are universal and won't be replaced anytime soon, meaning retailers don't need to upgrade their POS systems.
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The barcodes could allow passengers to work out if they had been picked.
Again, you would need to fall in the window of number of samples x regions of interest x barcodes x machine capacity.
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It will be a hand-held device that reads barcodes on the spot.
America's Department of Agriculture is creating barcodes for the world's fruit flies.
Just put a real phone down on Surface: it can recognize etched tags (like barcodes) on new phones and will retrieve more details.
Another notion: Using barcodes so refrigerators can automatically order milk and cheese when they run low or get close to their expiration date.
In a room down the corridor, several people are hard at work scanning barcodes from stacks of documents with an optical character reader.
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Using some chemical wizardry, Dr Linton has been able to get barcodes from old, dried museum specimens collected as long ago as 1916.
Similar to barcodes, Quick Recognition (QR) codes can be scanned by almost any smart phone, allowing tourists to find out more information about locations.
As Samsung highlighted during this year's Mobile World Congress, retailers prefer barcodes because they don't have to install any new infrastructure to support it.
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The problem with traditional barcodes is that when they are rendered on a smartphone, screen glare can prevent a scanner from reading them correctly.
Placing barcodes on all plastic cards that are read by a barcode reader that is powered by some other means could possibly perform this service.
Today consumers can use their phones to locate stores, scan barcodes and comparison shop right from the store aisle, make purchases and collect loyalty points.
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Consumers then view these company scores while they shop, by scanning product barcodes with their mobile phone camera or using a widget to view scores while browsing online.
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The Samsung S4 is the first phone to integrate with technology from a company called Mobeam which allows mobile devices to beam barcodes to ordinary POS scanners.
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Aided by the trend of people upgrading regular cellphones to smartphones, MGF is also testing new tools, such as mobile barcodes (also known as 2D barcodes or QR codes).
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When a passenger steps forward to get on a flight, an agent could hold up the boarding pass and passport in front of their smart glasses, scanning barcodes on the two documents simultaneously.
The user would use Passbook and the 2D barcode to pay at any register that scans barcodes and the transaction steps would be similar to those for the Starbucks app.
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This opens up the possibility of this installed base of scanners to be able to process barcodes, coupons, loyalty cards and gift cards directly from mobile devices no physical packaging, cards or coupons required.
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While smartphones are simplifying life in a variety of new ways, true mobile couponing has not been an option because the vast majority of in-store laser scanners cannot scan barcodes displayed on mobile phone screens.
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Although barcodes are very easy to transmit securely to mobile devices, the estimated 165 million standard barcode scanners at checkout locations in the U.S. have a very hard time reading them off of reflective screens.
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Mobeam converts barcodes, coupons, loyalty cards and gift cards into a beam of light that can be read by every one of the estimated 165 million laser scanners in use today by retailers around the world.
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