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News.blog: Barcode-bargain iPods

News Baldino told police he downloaded a program called Barcode Magic -- made by Ichiku Software -- to create phoney barcodes to place over the legitimate barcodes. The software maker's Web site says the program allows users to "generate barcodes for...

5 December 2005, 10:08

Mobile barcodes permit conference entry

News Visitors to trade exhibitions can now simply present an SMS-delivered barcode on their mobile phones to gain entry. When visitors submit their registration details, they are sent a confirming email and then a barcode by SMS to their mobile phones.

19 April 2004, 9:45

Mobile phone to scan discount vouchers

News Voucher System (IVS), which was developed by mobile operator O2 in conjunction with barcode software company 2nDimension, makes use of a The two-dimensional barcode -- or QR code printed on the voucher is verified against a central database and the...

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11 December 2007, 9:13

Ministry of Sound takes tickets mobile

News The next step would be to use barcode mobile ticketing, in which an electronic barcode is sent to the ticket buyer's mobile phone via text message. London club Ministry of Sound has completed a live trial of end-to-end mobile ticketing that saw...

30 November 2006, 9:22

NEC lends weight to RFID standards effort

News The company last week became the first Japanese IT firm to join EPCglobal, a Belgium-based organisation seeking to develop RFID standards to work in tandem with a next-generation barcode system called electronic product code.

24 May 2004, 9:30

One million babies tagged by NHS

News Babies receive a unique barcode identifier on screening test cards ensuring that they are tested following birth. The NHS has issued more than one million newborn babies with a unique identity number, the authority responsible for the programme has...

15 June 2004, 9:20

Boots tests e-prescription tech

News In phase one of the new Electronic Prescriptions Service (EPS), the doctor will issue a patient with a paper prescription with a barcode printed on it, and in parallel an e-prescription is issued to the data store known as the NHS Spine.

29 June 2006, 9:35

RFID to track army supplies in Iraq

News This will replace the barcode-based cargo visibility system, which requires manual data input. Australian troops in Iraq will use radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to monitor the movement of their equipment.

22 August 2005, 9:10

IBM slams RFID criticism as 'anti-retail'

News Retail has little value for RFID in terms of barcode alternatives. A leading IBM executive has described critics of radio-frequency identification technologies as confused and described their push against the technology as masking an "anti-retail...

29 April 2004, 15:20