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CES 2009: Microsoft Tag - You're It!
Bink.nu — Microsoft Tag is a new system to help give you a way to direct people to a URL using the camera on their mobile phone. You can think of it as TinyURL for optics, or Cue Cat on-the-go minus the hokey cat reader (hey, I know lots of people who loved that thing). It's actually a great system to visually direct people to a URL, free text, a vcard, or a dialer. You can sign up for free at Microsoft.com/tag , and download the app for your phone at ...

Microsoft’s Second iPhone App Breaks Cover
Geek In Disguise — ... . Long Zheng gives a good explanation of the differences but a key difference is the tag doesn’t store the data itself – it’s a redirector. What this means is you can provide a lot more info to people - especially in a world of more capable mobile devices where they can connect out to a website. Plus, you ...

Microsoft Releases Tag, Its Second iPhone Application
TechCrunch — ... can fetch more data stored on Microsoft servers. This allows way more information to be attached to tags than with QR codes. Microsoft Tags are available for the iPhone as well as Windows Mobile, J2ME, Blackberry, and Symbian S60 phones. The application can be accessed by visiting Gettag.mobi using your mobile phone browser. (Thanks to Neowin for the heads up, image above found on istartedsomething) Crunch Network: CrunchGear ...

Microsoft Tag for iPhone released. Android ver. soon
Redmond Pie — ... . Our friend Long Zheng blogged about this cool and exciting new technology which is based on High Capacity Color Barcodes (HCCBs). With the Microsoft Tag application, you just have to aim your camera phone at a Tag which will then instantly let you access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, promotions, and more. Nothing to type, no browsers to launch! ...

Microsoft Tag: The CueCat Returns on Your Mobile Phone
ReadWriteWeb — ... Microsoft Tag, its own barcode technology for mobile phones. For this, Microsoft developed its own High Capacity Color Barcodes which can store a lot more information than the ...

Microsoft Pulls a Facebook Connect With Their Mobile "Tag" Technology
CenterNetworks — ... Long Zheng has a good comparison of the technical specifications between the Microsoft Tag and a QR code. Scoble says that the Microsoft Tag can be printed smaller and are more accurate. ...

Microsoft releases second iPhone app
The Microsoft Blog — LAS VEGAS -- Following on the release last month of Seadragon , Microsoft said today it had released its second application for the iPhone. The free application, Tag , which is not exclusive to the iPhone, lets users almost immediately look up information from their phone about an object, like a print ad, a package, a storefront, or a magazine article, as long as the object is marked with a special "tag." Companies can create their own "tags" for their products but consumers can create them too, which they can then affix to an object like a business card. The tags then can link to a site the user ...

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 ...

Microsoft Tag barcode-lookup app is company's second-ever for iPhone
Obsessable News Feed — ... [ReadWriteWeb] Microsoft Tag: Microsoft’s own 2D barcode [istartedsomething] ...

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 ...

Video: Microsoft's new barcode technology
The Microsoft Blog — LAS VEGAS -- As I reported earlier today, Microsoft has released a new mobile application called Microsoft Tag. Basically, it's a barcode and a barcode reader. Except for the barcode trades black and white lines for colorful triangles and a barcode scanner for a cellphone. Aaron Getz, the product unit manager, gave several examples of how Microsoft Tag could potentially work. Scan your phone over a Tag on your boarding pass, for instance, and immediately see what gate your plane will leave from and what time it will depart in real-time. Or append a tag on your business card. Acquaintances with the Tag ...

Humble origins of Microsoft's Tag iPhone app
The Open Road — Microsoft spends billions each year on research and development, but it got its new iPhone application for the price of a few cups of coffee. Microsoft just released its second iPhone application, Tag, and it looks like a winner. Tag lets you create your own barcode and then allow users ...

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 ...

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 posts TagReader for iPhone
TG Daily - All News — Redmond (WA) - Following recent release of SeaDragon Mobile for iPhone, Redmond-based software giant has released its second iPhone application - which is also free of charge. Dubbed TagReader, the application lets iPhone owners snap multicolored barcodes around them to get interactive and personalized business and personal content directly on their handsets, without having to type anything or do a web search. Instead, you simply snap a tag with your cellphone to automatically get things like movie times, videos, music, driving directions, contact details, retailers' promotions, product details, bus directions, ...

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 ...

Microsoft Tags Beta: See it. Snap it. Save or share it.
TheNextWeb.com — At The Next Web, we keep our antennae tuned, and Microsoft has currently only announced Microsoft Tags Beta in the USA. But as the software and web site are available globally, we thought you’d need to know - now. This is how Microsoft describes its new service, which has been available since the 7th of January 2009 and was showcased at the CES 2009 show: — Microsoft Tag instantly connects you to more information and entertainment - without typing long URLs or texting short code. Simply snap the Tag with your mobile phone, and ...

Microsoft Tag - Linking real life with the digital world
Mobility Site — I’ve been playing with my new device (HTC Touch Pro) for the past two days and have been enjoying it immensely.  Of course when I get a new device I generally take a day and play around with it to get used to what is on the device and then create a partnership with two of my PCs and slowly add my “must have” applications.  I’ve been pretty good so far in taking my time adding “stuff” without putting on so much that you never get to use it all.  In fact, I have been rather methodical in what I want on this device.  I did add Live Search immediately ...

Microsoft Tag wants to connect you with a bunch of colorful triangle pictures
PalmAddicts — Prologue: Oh poor Microsoft (MS), it's not like the software giant has a bad product or project, but I think it's just me who wrote the title of the post in a wrong way so it sounds more negative... ;-p What is the Tag? It's an image consists of colored triangles, that ...

Making Art with Microsoft Tag
Geek In Disguise — What the hell is that? Well the image on the left is my Microsoft Tag and using software on your mobile phone you can snap an image of it and it’ll redirect you to this blog. Not that much use if you’re reading this blog already as you’ll end up caught in an Infinite Loop. However, if you’re promoting a movie or looking to provide additional data on your product beyond what will display on the packing (as two examples) these little tags can carry quiet a lot more information than the humble barcode or even. The Tag team at ...

Microsoft Tag: Updated, Better and a Contest
Mobility Site — I just saw on the Windows Mobile Team Blog that recently the Microsoft Tag model got an upgrade.  It is very very very cool and was something I thought you might have an interest in.  I posted a story in January (Microsoft Tag - Linking real life with the digital world) when I first heard about it.  I found it to be very cool but now there are some very rich changes and the possibilities to come are endless. Previously, a Microsoft tag had to be a square with a bunch of colored or black/white triangles. These tags could ...