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November 29, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Barcode Beta | 2D Barcode Creators
So how cool is this....the Japanese have long been in love with gadgets and now finally we have a mainstream company that seems to be putting some effort into playing catchup. So you've seen those new 2D barcodes, here's an enterprise reason to get that camera phone you've been lusting over.
So this 2D code came from the Microsoft site, and if you were to download the application for your Windows Mobile device you could then decode what the original author embedded into it.
So why am I writing about this you may ask? Well, barcode readers are mondo expensive, but almost everyone has a camera phone. So combine this recognition software withthe bar code printing software also mentioned at the site and you have a nice little SMB barcode inventory system.
However cool, I started wondering why Microsoft was getting into the bar code market when the answer slammed me in the face during the review of the Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server. The document library portion has an automatic barcode labeler so that you can more easily check documents in/out of the server. Just makes sense that Microsoft would abandon the older 1D Barcodes (like you see on soup cans and other UPC labeled items) in favor of the newer 2D codes with a much higher information density.
The recognition software also seems to be available as a standard windows app so with either a mobile phone or a camera on a Windows machine you could read information off biz card, a document, a computer, or just about anything else you may want to tag with a bit of information. Or just go crazy like our friends in Tokyo where posters for movies have a tag so that you can grab the URL with a simple snap of your cell phone camera.
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Posted by Brian Chee on November 29, 2006 04:34 PM
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In The Americas and Europe the Datamatrix is more common. Why use the Quick Code instead? The Quick Code is mostly used by Japanese company.
Posted by: Richard Bellemare at November 29, 2006 06:30 PMFunny, I got the same comment from some buddies in Berlin and London to the same effect. I'll ask the Microsoft folks why QR instead of some alternatives. The short version is that I have a CS Instructor in the next building that owns a DoCoMo reseller in Tokyo and writes lots of wireless java code....she and I have been chatting about creating an app to store club/discount card barcodes onto my mobile phone and see how well it can be scanned. I am looking for a way to put my wallet on a major diet. So while looking around on sourceforge to see if such a thing already existed, I stumbled across a posting about Microsoft's effort.
Thanks for the post and when I get an answer back from the Microsoft folks, I'll share the answer here....
Stay tuned....same bat channel....
/brian chee
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