techcrunch.com - 1/8/2009
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At CES, Microsoft has introduced its second iPhone app after dipping its toe with the release of Seadragon Mobile last month. The name of the application is Microsoft Tag , and it enables users to instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, ...
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Microsoft Announcements at CES
dailywireless.org —
... Microsoft also introduced Tags. The new phone tool — designed for Windows Mobile as well as Android and other environments, resembles barcodes, but contains more information — that can then be placed on a business card or just about ...
Microsoft presentó su segunda aplicación para iPhone
Celularis —
... nuevos tags personalizables son códigos de barras de color de alta capacidad (High Capacity Color Barcodes HCCBs) pero en forma de triángulo y a colores, cosa que les permite guardar mucha mayor información en el mismo espacio, como se puede ver arriba.
Microsoft Tag ahora está disponible para el iPhone, pero ya estaba disponible para celulares con Windows Mobile, J2ME, Blackberry o Symbian S60, y se puede descargar visitando Gettag.mobi desde esos móviles.
Vía TechCrunch ...
The new prolific iPhone app developer: Microsoft
VentureBeat —
... Microsoft Tags are confined to working on the iPhone, the company has readers for Windows Mobile, J2ME, BlackBerry and Symbian S60 phones, as TechCrunch points out. Tag Reader is available for free ...
Microsoft Tag barcode-lookup app is company's second-ever for iPhone
Obsessable News Feed —
... Microsoft is releasing its second-ever iPhone app, one designed to take advantage of the phone's camera to acquire 2D barcode data. The program, called Microsoft Tag, analyzes pictures that you take of High Capacity Color Barcodes. Unlike a one-dimensional barcode, like the UPC on every product you buy, which looks like a row of vertical stripes, two-dimensional barcodes store data in a more complex fashion over a larger area. The elaborate series of dots you'll find on a shipping label from UPS is a good example of a 2D barcode. The HCCB ones that Microsoft Tag uses are ...
CES boiled down to a single post (so far)
Lost Remote —
... Microsoft is bringing back the Cuecat, sort of, with “Tag” — an iPhone application that reads special bar code-like tags via the camera that triggers associated multimedia content. So you can scan different objects, like bus stops for the schedule or a magazine article for more details, and get associated content. Interesting. But to make it work, Microsoft has to make their proprietary tags the universal standard. So stay tuned. ...
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