When Technology is Transparent
If you’ve ever had a “Toll Tag” - a device which lets you drive on toll roads without stopping to pay with cumbersome coins - you know the ... a grocery store that use RFID for auto-scanning items for checkout and bills your credit card on file ... t offer bar code scanning Motion backgrounds that stutter and skip behind song lyrics Microsoft [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 19:17:04
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Draw Attention via a Stats Monitor
In the 1990’s I was a software engineer, writing software to automate distribution centers ( ... like flatbed cars. The bar code scanner would scan each item and then when the tray passed over ... by people, who would lay them bar code up on a conveyor belt. The items would be conveyed [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 23:53:30
Tickets.com In The News
Hot New Technologies That Will Change Everything– Christopher Null, PC World Cell Phones Are the New Paper Next Year, ... check-in system that lets you show an encrypted, 2D bar code on your phone to a TSA agent in lieu of a paper boarding pass. The agent scans the bar code with an ordinary scanner, and you're [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 15:06:00
5 no-frill tactics to improve in ‘09
You can go ahead and send your wish list to Santa, but you’ll be better off forwarding a copy to the budget writers at your own company ... aging technology. If your warehouse management system (WMS) is more than 4 years old, it’s worth ... technologies, such as bar-code scanning or RFID. Prices are dropping as use rises. Monitor best practices [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 16:27:28
Print is Not Dead: 2D Bar Codes Will Lead to More Offline and Print Advertising
Scanning a Matrix or 2D code with a smart phone camera will allow you to access websites, get real time information, ... reading: White paper on Mobile codes 2008 (pdf. Open Mobile Alliance) Choosing the best 2D bar code format for mobile applications (pdf. semacide 2006) US Patent Office reject all 95 NeoMedia code [more...]
Date: 2008-07-26 18:41:24
App Development to Drive Mobile Growth
Two main factors have led to increased attention on the mobile industry: 1. Rising device standards and smart-phone penetration 2 ... popular is ShopSavvy, in which users scan the bar code of any product using the camera built ... . Open source operating systems that encourage third-party innovation. The New York Times takes [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 20:41:58
More Apology Management
To err is human, to forgive is divine, unless you live in a province obsessed with separation of church and state.CTV ... and determined in advance. Players don't even have to scratch them to win. A scan of the ticket's bar code should determine if it's a true winner, Pister said.The correct number of winning tickets [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 12:44:00
HOW WOULD CHENEY TRY TO GET PEOPLE TO BUY HIS BOOK? HERE'S A THEORY You may have seen this, from Andrew Malcolm of the L.A. Times: ... ... me note that Nielsen BookScan's list of the fifty top-selling books of the year, based on bar-code scans [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 19:40:45
Open Voting Consortium
This systems seems really good. You cast your vote using a computer, but the computer prints out a paper document ... ballot shows the choices the voter made and includes a bar code for optical scanning. The software [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 21:25:59
Symbol LS2208 - Affordable General Purpose Bar Code Scanner
When you need to add affordable scanning performance to your systems, choose the LS2208 ... Is designed for continuous use. Accurate first-time capture of 1D bar codes Increased productivity [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 01:07:46
Delicious Library 2.0 Final Version
... library using our exclusive full-speed iSight video barcode scanner, our Flic® Wireless Laser Bar Code ... , movies, music and video games. A scan of a barcode is all Delicious Library needs to add an item [more...]
Date: 2008-06-21 12:16:05
Tech-Savvy Secrets to Getting the Best Black Friday Deals
The day after Thanksiving, aka "Black Friday," is a great time to score deals, ... and ratings online simply by snapping a photo. No, it doesn't scan the bar code; it just recognizes [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 22:16:47
Pointmobile’s PDA ‘PM250′ officially launched
These days, rugged smartphones are kind of hard to find. And so are oddly shaped phones ... well-balanced body - 1D and 2D bar code scanner positioned with 30 degree bended scanning angle [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 04:36:09
Point Of Sale, POS, in Accounting Software
If you have a business that takes cash from your customers at the front desk then you must have a good and robust point of sale software package, ... a bar code scanner. There are several advantages in doing this. As the product is scanned ... or POS as it is sometimes called. The reasons are quite simple. 1. Many products today have bar [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 03:57:17
Walmart Is Trying To Lose My Business
Last week I went to Walmart to do part of my grocery shopping ... he says if it won’t scan, too bad. He won’t enter the numbers on the bar code manually. That made [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 10:01:23
SICK Delivers Fast Payback
Investment in integrated package measurement and bar-code scanning from SICK (UK) ... A unique identifying bar code label is applied to each package on entry to the Norsk-European handling ... with a SICK OPS490 omni-directional bar code reading system, comprising of an evaluation unit and several [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 17:47:53
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