Planning to fly over Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park any time soon? Better grab smartphone and be sure to peek outside the window and you may notice a huge QR code on the rooftop of one of the buildings. Facebook just moved to new headquarters and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanted to make the place a bit more "Fa... |
26 March 2012
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Cybercriminals began relying on QR codes to spread their malicious operations since they noticed that they could be utilized to hide URLs. Now they began sending confusing emails, urging recipients to scan QR codes that point to classic online pharmacy scams. Websense researchers came across such an email that conta... |
12 January 2012
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Launched in 2009 by The Coca-Cola Company, it's the first ever recyclable PET plastic bottle made partially from plants. Recently adopted by Heinz for the ketchup bottles, PlantBottle packaging is made from up to 30% renewable sugar cane material and is still 100% recyclable.To ‘spice-up’ the availab... |
19 September 2011
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Only a year ago, QR codes looked like the next big thing. At least that was Google's story and the company was pushing the technology on users and small businesses. It sent out 100,000 QR code stickers to local shops in the US to encourage use. Now though, the project is dead and Google will not be using the tec... |
31 March 2011
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Wolfram|Alpha, the computational knowledge search engine, has just been launched for the Android platform. The application is advertised mainly for the T-Mobile G2 smartphone, but it can also be downloaded on other devices running Android 1.6 or newer.Wolfram|Alpha enables users to search by voice or text, or try to ... |
7 October 2010
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Google is just one of the big proponents of QR codes, two-dimensional bar codes that come in quite handy on mobile devices, but the technology is still not very popular in the US, or anywhere outside of Japan, really. That isn't stopping anyone, though, and Google has added a very neat trick to its URL-shortenin... |
8 April 2010
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QR codes are all the rage in Japan, a country pretty much obsessed with mobile devices, having been so way before the iPhone came along and opened the eyes of everyone else to what a powerful mobile device could do. Incidentally, the iPhone hasn't really taken off in Japan like in the rest of the world. But QR c... |
16 March 2010
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