Do you know Space Invaders and the artist that puts them on walls in many different cities? If not you might want to have a look here. So what does this have to do with mobile and wireless? Looks like somebody has now started to add another dimension to this with 2D barcodes. If you have a mobile phone with a 2D barcode scanner, take a look at this picture, click on "full screen resolution'" to in...

The HTC Touch Pro runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS and offers a 3.2 MP camera that doubles as a scanner, GPS, Opera Web browser, and a 2.8" VGA touch-screen display and a microSD memory card slot.

There are currently no viruses for the Android platform, but the antivirus is out.

SymbianV3 reports the finding of a useful tool not shown on any of the Nokia sites... at least none that we are aware of.  The Nokia Multiscanner. According to my Symbian-Guru, the Nokia Multiscanner is a tool that's available to the E66 and E71 (although I can't find it on my E71).  The Multiscanner offers 2 functions... a card reader and a text scanner which converts  The applicat...

Sprint has hooked up with Scanbuy to launch ScanLife, a 2D barcode scanner app for Sprint phones that will be able to read 2D barcodes found in advertisements and elsewhere. Read the full story here.

RobK reports on Mobile Industry Review that some clever chap has created an app to enable you to scan text with your N95. Basically the app takes a photo of the page of text and becomes an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) scanner, translating what it has seen into words on the device’s screen. It doesn’t just

Found under: Symbian, Freeware, Smartphones, In case you need a perfectly fake Symbian application to dazzle your friends with it then you should get X-Scanner. Not that this application is a fake but what it does is pretty much fake. Looking at the picture here you probably assumed what X-Scanner does right Well although Symbian smartphones have become smarter and smarter they still cant perform ...

Those natty guys over at SymbianV3.Com have posted an application for Nokia mobiles, which effectively turns them into an optical character recognition scanner via its camera. This could be the best use of a Nokia since someone turned the humongous N95 into a paper weight. In luddites terms the software takes a photo of a page from

You've got to love these Nokia utilities that get unofficially shifted from one device to another. Multiscanner, a dual purpose card scanner and general text optical character recogniser (OCR), is taken from the E71 and E66 but seems to work well on other S60 phones, according to Symbian Guru... I did try it on the N82 but the brightness of the flash made the OCRing of text too tricky, it see...

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