Or conversely, they have the QR-code-generating website for businesses but no app on the consumer side of things.
To make it quick and easy to get rolling with Everio, Wi-Fi models are supported by a QR code-based Wi-Fi setup utility, and all models are supported by a mobile user guide that's been optimized for smartphone viewing.
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Billed as the first QR-code promotion that Pandora has done, this publicity campaign would engage dog owners through a savvy integration of in-store and online touchpoints.
The stores are actually posters on bus-stops with QR codes on each image of a DVD or Blu-Ray.
In one demo, a box decorated in QR-like codes opens to reveal a bouquet of virtual flowers.
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Some of them rely on technology other than NFC, such as offering services that let people pay for purchases by sending text messages or by scanning product bar codes using a phone's QR-code reader.
There's also a QR code plus its corresponding label ID printed below the foil, and scanning the former or entering the latter on qr-sennheiser.com returns a virtual copy of the foil label plus a visual description.
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Rio de Janeiro is adding something new into its trademark black-and-white mosaic pavements: QR codes.
The advert -- part of which you see below -- shows the faint outline of a QR code, the contents of which lead to the application details.
Employers are also starting to experiment with the next frontiers of mobile recruiting: using QR codes and text-messaging, two capabilities that are specifically geared to smartphones.
Using QR codes on in-store tent cards, posters and cup sleeves, customers could scan to add Starbucks as a friend, then send the company an emoticon to be rewarded with a customized song designed to lift their mood.
Other innovations include placing a QR code on a pill-bottle label that consumers can scan with a smartphone to download a short video with information about the drug.
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The oft-maligned QR code was originally pitched by some as a taste of the future.
What is not included on any platform (Android, iPhone or Windows) is a built-in QR code scanner.
Guests can also scan to shop with in-store QR codes, use the interactive gift finder at Target.com, on tablets and mobile devices, and shop Target in a few unexpected places, like high-traffic bus shelters.
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Each seat has a QR code that leads users to check-in to the site on Facebook Places, and offers them the opportunity to win VIP tickets for a game at Yankee Stadium .
And it will also take integration of technologies such as NFC, localization, barcode scanning and QR codes to drive personalized offers in real-time.
Again and again we see companies launch full-scale campaigns that include QR codes which lead to desktop sites.
Especially when it comes to security breaches done through fake quick response codes, or QR codes (crossword puzzle looking bar code scan-able by some smart phones), the iPhone is a lot safer, he says.
Marco Antonio de Carvalho, 25, actor, Film student and assistant director for GNT (TV network), was among the curious passers-by who entered the QR Code that redirects to the campaign site on the web and gives access to videos featuring Brazilian performers Rodrigo Santoro, Alice Braga and MV Bill.
Of course, this is just one of the many ways the travel industry has begun to employ the QR code to make travel sites and services more tech-friendly.
According to comScore, another research company, more than two-thirds of Americans and Europeans who scan QR codes do so in order to obtain information about a product.
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Going the digital route has certainly been a growing trend -- 3M recently launched a Cloud Library lending service while one Austrian town kicked off its own unique e-book repository based on stickers equipped with QR codes and NFC chips.
"Gibraltarpedia" organisers want their QR codes to communicate with the user's phone to determine its set-up language, so a Brazilian tourist can be taken to a page in Portuguese, a Turk to one in Turkish and so on, says Roger Bamkin, a consultant to the Gibraltar government and a volunteer from Wikimedia UK, the charity that supports the online encyclopaedia.
When I scanned the QR code for that business, I was given a reward for a free hook-on hat band from their Detroit location.
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So we need to rethink how we use mobile and QR codes in a more appropriate and relevant way to give people exciting, new real-time interactions with brands.
Most free QR code apps will launch pages that are crowded with mobile banner ads making the viewing experience sub-par.
As well as free wi-fi, it said the money would also fund signs with Quick Response (QR) codes which visitors would be able to scan on their smart phone to be directed to events and offers in the area.
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Rather than expose your banking details by holding them in a chip, LevelUp's NFC is just used to move the transaction along -- if it's used to get things started, shoppers can either switch to a QR code or complete the transaction with a second tap.
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