Microsoft at CES has just unveiled its second iPhone app, Microsoft Tag. The program lets users take snapshots of almost anything then the program retrieves information including media, contact information, special offers, and so on. Microsoft Tags is based on Microsoft’s High Capacity Color Barcodes system, which is a high capacity barcode system that stores more information, as seen in the image below. The system is similar to the QR Code matrix. You can get Microsoft Tag now on your Windows Mobile phone, Andriod, BlackBerry, Symbian S60, J2ME, and now, on your iPhone. Microsoft Tags is Microsoft’s second iPhone release, the first being Seadragon.








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January 18th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
NeoMedia Technologies grandfathered this technology back in the mid 90’s and have been doing mobile code scanning long before any other company in this space.
NeoMedia has a rich patent portfolio that covers scanning barcodes with a camera enabled mobile device to connect to the Internet, comparison shop, and/or retrieve online content.
http://www.neom.com/13.html