Attack of the QRs

   The emerging QR codes are making their present known as smartphone users are scanning away. When you scan or read a QR code with your iPhone, Android or other camera-enabled Smartphone, it accesses a link to digital content on the web. While QR codes are still considered a novelty here in the United States, they’ve been actively used for over a decade in Japan where they were invented. QR is a registered trademark of Denso Wave, a subsidiary of Toyota. Denso Wave has elected not to exercise their patent rights of QR codes and that has encouraged their widespread use in other parts of the world.

   The QR code is known for appearing in magazines, on signs, on buses, on business cards, or on almost any object about which users might need information. QR (Quick Response code). Is a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code) designed to be read by today’s smartphones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background usually big or small. Although initially used for tracking parts in vehicle manufacturing, QR codes as of 2011 are used in a much broader context. Uses extend from commercial tracking to entertainment and from product marketing to in-store product labeling. Many of these applications target for smartphone users (via mobile tagging). Mobile tagging is the process of providing data read from tags for display on mobile devices such as websites, videos, and more.

   In the US, QR Code usage is expanding according to one study, 14 million mobile users scanned a QR Code or a barcode: 58% of those users scanned a QR or bar code from their home, while 39% scanned from retail stores (Retrieved from www.wikipedia.com).

    Additionally, there are sites where you can build your own QR code to display whatever you would like @ http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ 


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Say Hello to Mr. All-in-One

    Can cellphones be the all in one of the technology world? These devices are capable of providing a bridge to the internet, no matter where you want to go. Not to forget that the super phones of today can take pictures, record videos, run applications, play your favorite movies and music, and even provide a hot spot for your WiFi devices. The cellphones of today are changing the whole idea of just having a phone, but having a device that can entertain, educate, and even help you plan life events just to name a few. The world of cellular phones have evolved a bit, because these days everyone want to have access to the newer technologies that phones can offer whether it be 3G, 4G, or even mobile hotspots.

    It was not long ago that everyone wanted a cellphone rather than a beeper. The ability to talk on the go has been one of the greatest inventions that has transformed the way we communicate many times over. It all started with the greatness of talking to someone while on the go and having your personal call line for friends and family to call on your hip. Then cellphones managed to add another level of communication by creating text messaging which is probably the most contagious form of communicate today. In this present day, the technology of phones has found a way to add another page to it history, by  giving users a way to communicate face to face by using the likes of Skype, Face-time, and other programs that utilize the camera technology. If you ask me, I think that cellphones have a bone to pick with computers as they manage to get closer and closer to offering the features that a computer provides for it's users. Will they one day become like them or better, no one knows but only time will tell...