Mobile barcodes (aka QR, or Quick Response codes) are old news in Japan and Korea, but they haven’t made it big in Europe or the US just yet. The Telegraph reported today that the tech is getting a big PR push in Britain, thanks to Pepsi. How long will it be until the scanning tech
Talk about a quick response. Almost as soon as the Android development community happen to stumble upon a root-access “jailbreak” method for the Android OS, Google let loose their counter-punch. Google is now pushing out a new Android OS build that patches the current Android jailbreak exploit. The patch should make quick work of closing the
Thirsty tech-savvy UK consumers will be able to access music, games and other entertainment from their mobile phones now that Pepsi has introduced QR codes to its drink packs. PepsiCo and Britvic are rolling out 400 million packs with quick response (QR) codes across Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max variants in the UK. QR codes are two-dimensional barcodes that act as a conduit between print and we...
No surprise. According to a Sprint study, text messaging gets a far quicker response than voice mail. In a study by Sprint, those under the age of 30 are four times more likely to respond within minutes to an SMS than a voicemail, with roughly 91 percent responding within the hour. Adults 30 and older were twice as likely to text a reply within minutes rather than call.
Ralph Lauren is making luxury shopping more mobile with the launch of and use of QR bar codes. This new mobile website makes it easier for mobile access because their website is almost all executed in Flash, a software not available in many web phones even the iPhone. Ralph Lauren is the first luxury retailer in the U.S. to directly launch m-commerce while incorporating Quick Response (QR) c...
