Yowza: For Black Friday Coupons for Your iPhone

Yowza is an app for bringing scannable coupons to your iPhone. While the app was released recently, Yowza suddenly gets a bit more high-profile on Black Friday. I'm picturing shoppers combing the mall while...

The QR (Quick Response) Code And You :: Symblogogy

"Image Credit: Ralph LaurenThe QR (Quick Response) Code And YouA cellphone with a camera isn’t a communications device with a way to capture pictures and share them with friends… rather, it’s a web...

INDY DownForce And Marketing Blunders :: Symblogogy

"Promotional graphic used by INDY DownForce to promote mobile information alert applications. Non-sponsoring company product married to a log-time IRL racing team and series sponsor from the same mobile products...

Smartphones That Know When & Where To Move :: Symblogogy

"A new type of technology is making its way to the cellphone platform. The mobile phone has played host to GPS, Cameras, Symbology (barcode) Scanning, Walkie-Talkies, Bluetooth Broadcasting, MP3 Music, and...

Symbology Development Growth Gets MSM Attention :: Symblogogy

"Yes, that’s right, the Main Stream Media (MSM) here in North America is finally taking notice that cellphones and symbologies make good bedfellows (New York Times – “New Bar Codes Can Talk With Your...

Auto ID > Symbology > Biometrics > Photo Pattern Recognition :: Symblogogy

"What is Photo Pattern Recognition (PPR)? PPR is the ability to render a still photograph into an algorithm discernable identification symbol that then can be used for all of the cellphone applications that are...

Beauty And The Web 2.0 - Contest Meets mCode Symbology :: Symblogogy

" Recently Smart Communications introduced a service to its customers that allowed the cellphone owner to gain automated connections in a streamlined symbology method they call Decode. Decode, based on a...

Sex And The Web 2.0 - Or, When Denim Meets QR Code :: Symblogogy

"Never has a symbology or denim jeans material ever looked so good. This type of branding and marketing really has a way of catching ones attention. Let us not miss what is important here though, and that is? ......

Symbology News Invades 3GSM Conference :: Symblogogy

"A PR Newswire release timed for the opening of the world’s premiere conference for GSM mobile phone communications (3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain - February 12-15) highlights the announcement of a...

"mCode" Mobility Symbology Is Making Moves :: Symblogogy

"Most people are familiar with barcodes; they appear on almost every product we purchase. These barcodes are used to identify the products we purchase so that the pricing and other information (inventory and etc.)...

QR Based PM Code - The Best 3D Symbology Ever, Really!

"QR Based PM Code - The Best 3D Symbology Ever, Really! ... And it is a 5th Generation Media symbology known as the PM Code. With this printed symbology one can use a simple cellphone with a camera and unleash...

Software Company Captures Mobility Decode Patent :: Symblogogy

"The United Stated Patent Office issued a patent to Scanbuy, Inc. (New York, NY) for a "System and method for decoding and analyzing barcodes using a mobile device". The method will be known commercially as...

Consumerism Meets Up With A 2D (QR Code) World [video link]

Mickey D's Inventive Use Of 2D QR Codes "At Symblogogy, we have explored the use of symbologies and cellphone camera technology working together in harmony. Here is a unique consumer information application which...