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Microsoft Tag: The CueCat Returns on Your Mobile Phone
ReadWriteWeb —
... barcodes we have become familiar with. Microsoft is specifically targeting mobile users with these tags and has released scanning applications for most types of mobile phones, including the iPhone (iTunes link), as well as Windows Mobile phones, Blackberries, and Symbian S60 phones. ...
Another Useless iPhone App From Microsoft: 'Tag' (MSFT)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... First, Microsoft (MSFT) brought the 'Seadragon' app to Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, a cool but utterly pointless showpiece for new photo-zoom technology. But Microsoft iPhone development isn't stopping there: The company has released 'Microsoft Tag' for the device, enabling iPhone support for the "mobile tagging" concept. ...
The new prolific iPhone app developer: Microsoft
VentureBeat —
For a company whose chief executive laughed off the iPhone when it was first announced, Microsoft is sure making a lot of iPhone applications. The company unveiled another app, Tag Reader [iTunes], at CES today, marking the second time its released an app to Apple’s App Store in less than a month.
Just like Seadragon Mobile, its first iPhone app, Tag Reader is more of a demonstration app than anything useful — for now. You see, the point of the app is to be able to read Microsoft Tags, a new barcode-like technology developed by Microsoft Research. If you know what QR Codes are, square barcodes that a ...
Microsoft’s second iPhone app: Microsoft Tag
iPhone Buzz —
Microsoft has introduced its second iPhone app after the launch of Seadragon Mobile last month: Microsoft Tag. Just point the device’s camera to a custom tag and instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, and more.
Long Zheng of IStartedSomething wrote:
Microsoft Tag is based on a whole new technology called High Capacity Color Barcodes (HCCBs), which was invented in-house by Microsoft Research. The difference is not using square pixels, but triangle shapes and colors to store data.
Microsoft Tag is the ...
Microsoft’s second iPhone app: Microsoft Tag
Top iPhone News —
Microsoft has introduced its second iPhone app after the launch of Seadragon Mobile last month: Microsoft Tag. Just point the device’s camera to a custom tag and instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, and more.
Long Zheng of IStartedSomething wrote:
Microsoft Tag is based on a whole new technology called High Capacity Color Barcodes (HCCBs), which was invented in-house by Microsoft Research. The difference is not using square pixels, but triangle shapes and colors to store data.
Microsoft Tag is the ...
Microsoft offers second app for iPhone
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Software, Freeware, iPhone, iPod touchAfter the impressive release of Seadragon for the iPhone/ iPod touch, Microsoft has followed up by releasing an iPhone version of Tag Reader. [App Store link] Tag Reader allows you to use your iPhone to grab a quick photograph of a colorful icon that contains lots of digital tagging. It could be a web site, product information, even your contact details from a vCard or even free text. First, download Tag Reader from the App Store and install it on your iPhone. Then, test it against some samples on the Microsoft Tag web page. Next, if you like, you can ...
Microsoft Tag, el sistema de códigos de barras multicolor de Microsoft
Gizmología —
Microsoft ha presentado en el CES (la semana pasada, por fin) una novedad curiosa, quizá lo que menos te esperabas que Microsoft lanzase ya que todo el mundo estaba atento a Windows 7.
Se trata de Microsoft Tag, un sistema de códigos de barras de 8 bits. Actualmente puedes conocer dos tipos de códigos, uno es el típico de líneas verticales que puedes ver en casi cualquier objeto a la venta del mundo, se usa para codificar una numeración.
Después tenemos los QRCode, códigos más grandes capaces de almacenar números, letras y símbolos, es muy utilizado en Japón para ...
