Google has identified over 100,000 businesses in the U.S. as Favorite Places based on Google users interaction with local business listings. Each business is receiving a window decal with a unique QR code that you scan with your phones camera. Then you can read reviews or star the business as your own favorite. QR Codes

If you need a free barcode reader for your BlackBerry mobile phone, BeeTagg is one that not only it is free but supports QR-Code, BeeTagg Code and Datamatrix. One other feature worth mentioning is that BeeTagg for BlackBerry allows you to create matrix code barcodes and upload them to your site for instant browsing. As far as the compatibility with BlackBerry devices goes, all phones with camera a...

Good article by the Mobile Marketer’s Giselle Abramovich on the recent announcement from Polo Ralph Lauren that they would begin utilizing a 2D barcode reader (Quick Response- QR- code reader specifically) in their new mobile commerce efforts. The article stated that consumers could, “shop via their camera phones by scanning the QR code appearing

Google has recently confirmed that it has set up a team that would provide technical support to hardware makers in Taiwan for the company's Android operating system developed for mobile phones. According to Chien Lee-Feng, president of Google Taiwan, the team is meant to offer support for phones. “Android is a free, open-source mobile plat...

Many BlackBerry users, especially those using BlackBerry Messenger 5, are already familiar with Mobile Tags, or, QR Codes, as they are properly referred to.  QR codes are a type of  2D barcode that can be scanned by most smartphones and even many feature phones allowing the user to access a website , contact information, product ...

Samsung's Head of Product Strategy Won-Pyo Hong told Reuters that the company will release more than three mobile phones powered Google's Android operating system in 2009. Hong also said the company plans on releasing a phone powered by Limo's Linux operating system. Read the full story here.

In an interview with CNET News.com last week, David Wood, Symbian Foundation's "catalyst and futurist" talked about new open-source strategy aimed at making the Symbian OS stronger amid completely new market realities, including the success of Apple and RIM, and Google's launch of Android, a license-free, open-source operating system for mobile phones. Not to mention forthcoming Palm Pre...

Section: Communications, Cellphones, Smartphones, Mobile If you dont trust Google, you are not alone.  Why else would Samsung develop an open source operating system for mobile phones on their own instead of using the free Android?  Samsungs new OS dubbed, Bada should be found on its first phone come mid-2010. Bada, which according to Electronista, means ocean in Korean, but is more comm...

What do you want your cell phone to be able to do? MIT professor Hal Abelson put that question to about 20 computer science students this semester when he gave them one assignment: Design a software program for cell phones that use Google's upcoming Android mobile operating system.

Scanbuy, now offers a Google Android version of  tis ScanLife multi-barcode reader that uses the camera in the smartphone. With ScanLife , users can scan all major 2D barcode formats (Datamatrix, EZcode, QR). Then information is automatically displayed about a wbsiite, launch a video, dial a phone number, and more. People can go to www.scanlife.com to create their own bar codes for free which...