Barcodes bring mobile users to 21st century

From
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=81221

A series of barcodes launched today by Telstra will give mobile customers
access to video presentations, store information, guided tours and movie
trailers, with the company to install them on mobile phones for free from
July 1.

The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares which, with a
single point and scan from a Telstra mobile phone camera, will take users to
mobile websites with to-the-minute information.

Users could scan a code on the back of a business card to add the person's
details to their mobile address book, or a real estate billboard to take a
virtual tour of a property.

Telstra group managing director for Consumer and Channels David Moffatt said
the technology had the potential to radically change the print and outdoor
advertising industry - with the codes able to be placed on surfaces
including print media, clothes, billboards, TVs and computer screens.

"Telstra Mobile Codes will revolutionise the way Australian access mobile
internet content and information, allowing a faster and simpler mobile
internet experience just by scanning a code through their phone camera," he
said.

A Telstra spokesman said the application - visible as a "Scan Code" option -
was installed on all new Next G mobiles, and would be installed
automatically on all Next G phones currently in the market.

The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.

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"Alan Parkington" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> From
> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=81221
>
> The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares which, with a
> single point and scan from a Telstra mobile phone camera, will take users
> to mobile websites with to-the-minute information.
>
<snip>

> The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.

Funny. My Dopod 838pro that I obtained from Vodafone 18 months ago comed
preinstalled with an app called Quickmark which reads these codes just fine.
It's also available for the N95 at
http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/basic....asp#Nokia_N95 You can even
generate your own QR codes online at
http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/diy/?qmLink

Unique, my arse.

--
Kwyj.

and have been actively used in Japan since 2000, old technology

"Kwyjibo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Alan Parkington" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> From
>> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=81221
>>
>> The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares which, with
>> a single point and scan from a Telstra mobile phone camera, will take
>> users to mobile websites with to-the-minute information.
>>
> <snip>
>
>> The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.
>
> Funny. My Dopod 838pro that I obtained from Vodafone 18 months ago comed
> preinstalled with an app called Quickmark which reads these codes just
> fine. It's also available for the N95 at
> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/basic....asp#Nokia_N95 You can even
> generate your own QR codes online at
> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/diy/?qmLink
>
> Unique, my arse.
>
> --
> Kwyj.
>


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"Horry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]...
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:01:27 +1000, thegoons wrote:
>
>> and have been actively used in Japan since 2000, old technology
>
> LOL. Barcodes have been used by Woolworths THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA since
> at least the early 1990s.
>
>
pity we were talking about 2 dimensional codes


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Alan Poxington <[email protected]> wrote

> From
> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=81221

> A series of barcodes launched today by Telstra will give mobile customers access to video presentations, store
> information, guided tours and movie trailers, with the company to install them on mobile phones for free from July 1.

Any barcode can do that, wanker.

> The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares which, with a single point and scan from a Telstra mobile
> phone camera, will
> take users to mobile websites with to-the-minute information.

Nice theory, pity about the reality, wanker.

> Users could scan a code on the back of a business card to add the person's details to their mobile address book,

You dont need any barcode to do that, or some dinosaur printed business card either, wanker.

> or a real estate billboard to take a virtual tour of a property.

Any barcode can do that, wanker.

> Telstra group managing director for Consumer and Channels

Wota wank of a title.

> David Moffatt

That silly wanker...

> said the technology had the potential to radically change the print and outdoor advertising industry

And wont, you watch.

> - with the codes able to be placed on surfaces including print media, clothes, billboards, TVs and computer screens.

Any barcode can do that, wanker.

> "Telstra Mobile Codes will revolutionise the way Australian access mobile internet content and information,

Only in your pathetic little drug crazed wanker fantasyland, you watch.

> allowing a faster and simpler mobile internet experience just by scanning a code through their phone camera," he said.

Any barcode can do that, wanker.

> A Telstra spokesman said the application - visible as a "Scan Code"
> option - was installed on all new Next G mobiles, and would be
> installed automatically on all Next G phones currently in the market.

And **** all will bother to have it on anything, you watch.

> The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.

So **** all will bother to have it on anything, you watch.

Horry wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:47:00 +1000, thegoons wrote:
>
>> "Horry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news[email protected]...
>>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:01:27 +1000, thegoons wrote:
>>>
>>>> and have been actively used in Japan since 2000, old technology
>>> LOL. Barcodes have been used by Woolworths THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA since
>>> at least the early 1990s.
>>>
>>>
>> pity we were talking about 2 dimensional codes
>
> What a moron. How many dimensions do you think the barcodes used by
> Woolworths have? 3? 1?
>
>

1, actually.

On Tue, 5 Tamuz 5768 22:05 Leeroy Jenkins translated the ancient runes
thusly:

> Horry wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:47:00 +1000, thegoons wrote:
>>
>>> "Horry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news[email protected]...
>>>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:01:27 +1000, thegoons wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> and have been actively used in Japan since 2000, old technology
>>>> LOL. Barcodes have been used by Woolworths THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA
>>>> since at least the early 1990s.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> pity we were talking about 2 dimensional codes
>>
>> What a moron. How many dimensions do you think the barcodes used
>> by
>> Woolworths have? 3? 1?
>>
>>
>
> 1, actually.

Oh? And how do you work THAT out? Last I looked they had three, length
and breadth and the thickness of the print. Could say 4D as they also
exist temporally.

Kate
--
--
"How many of them can we make die?"
*--- March of Cambreadth

http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:06:01 in aus.comms.mobile Kate may have written:
> > 1, actually.
>
> Oh? And how do you work THAT out? Last I looked they had three, length
> and breadth and the thickness of the print. Could say 4D as they also
> exist temporally.

Maybe when you're talking dimensions in a physical world. But we're not
- we're talking the dimensions of a bar-code. Uinversal Product Code
(UPC) bar-codes are "linear" or "one dimensional" bar-codes as the
bar-code reader reads them in one dimension only - perpendicular to the
bars.

PD

--
Paul Day
http://www.enigma.id.au/

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:33:03 in aus.comms.mobile Horry may have written:
> > pity we were talking about 2 dimensional codes
>
> What a moron.

Pot kettle.

> How many dimensions do you think the barcodes used by Woolworths have?
> 3? 1?

1

PD

--
Paul Day

"Kwyjibo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Alan Parkington" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> From
>> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=81221
>>
>> The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares which, with
>> a single point and scan from a Telstra mobile phone camera, will take
>> users to mobile websites with to-the-minute information.
>>
> <snip>
>
>> The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.
>
> Funny. My Dopod 838pro that I obtained from Vodafone 18 months ago comed

Which part of "unique to TELSTRA in Australia" did you not understand?

Vodafone <> Telstra

"thegoons" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Horry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news[email protected]...
>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:01:27 +1000, thegoons wrote:
>>
>>> and have been actively used in Japan since 2000, old technology
>>
>> LOL. Barcodes have been used by Woolworths THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA since
>> at least the early 1990s.
>>
>>
> pity we were talking about 2 dimensional codes

LOL

Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Kwyjibo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
>> "Alan Parkington" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> From
>>> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=81221
>>>
>>> The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares which,
>>> with a single point and scan from a Telstra mobile phone camera,
>>> will take users to mobile websites with to-the-minute information.
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.
>>
>> Funny. My Dopod 838pro that I obtained from Vodafone 18 months ago comed preinstalled with an app called Quickmark
>> which reads these codes just
>> fine. It's also available for the N95 at
>> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/basic....asp#Nokia_N95 You can even
>> generate your own QR codes online at
>> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/diy/?qmLink

>> Unique, my arse.

> Which part of "unique to TELSTRA in Australia" did you not understand?

Which part of 'unique ... in Australia' did you not understand, you
stupid pig ignorant drug crazed illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child ?

> Vodafone <> Telstra

You quite sure you aint one of those stupid pig ignorant drug crazed illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit children ?

On Jul 21, 8:22*am, "Michael" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Which part of "unique to TELSTRA in Australia" did you not understand?
>
> Vodafone <> Telstra

Point being - it isn't unique to telstra at all. It's an open standard
with software available for just about any camera equipped phone.
They're just promoting it the most and trying to convince people that
the only we to use it is to have a telstra phone, and that simply
isn't true.

"Rod Speed" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
>> "Kwyjibo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>>
>>> "Alan Parkington" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>> From
>>>> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=81221
>>>>
>>>> The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares which,
>>>> with a single point and scan from a Telstra mobile phone camera,
>>>> will take users to mobile websites with to-the-minute information.
>>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.
>>>
>>> Funny. My Dopod 838pro that I obtained from Vodafone 18 months ago comed
>>> preinstalled with an app called Quickmark which reads these codes just
>>> fine. It's also available for the N95 at
>>> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/basic....asp#Nokia_N95 You can even
>>> generate your own QR codes online at
>>> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/diy/?qmLink
>
>>> Unique, my arse.
>
>> Which part of "unique to TELSTRA in Australia" did you not understand?
>
> Which part of 'unique ... in Australia' did you not understand, you
> stupid pig ignorant drug crazed illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child ?

No one claimed "unique ... in Australia".

What was claimed was "unique to TELSTRA in Australia"

Michael <[email protected]> wrote
> Rod Speed <[email protected]> wrote
>> Michael <[email protected]> wrote
>>> Kwyjibo <[email protected]> wrote
>>>> Alan Poxington <[email protected]> wrote

>>>>> From
>>>>> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=81221
>>>>>
>>>>> The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares
>>>>> which, with a single point and scan from a Telstra mobile phone
>>>>> camera, will take users to mobile websites with to-the-minute
>>>>> information.
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>> The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.
>>>>
>>>> Funny. My Dopod 838pro that I obtained from Vodafone 18 months ago
>>>> comed preinstalled with an app called Quickmark which reads these
>>>> codes just fine. It's also available for the N95 at
>>>> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/basic....asp#Nokia_N95 You
>>>> can even generate your own QR codes online at
>>>> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/diy/?qmLink
>>
>>>> Unique, my arse.
>>
>>> Which part of "unique to TELSTRA in Australia" did you not
>>> understand?

>> Which part of 'unique ... in Australia' did you not understand, you stupid pig ignorant drug crazed illiterate dunny
>> cleaning ****wit child ?

> No one claimed "unique ... in Australia".

Yes, they did, you stupid pig ignorant drug crazed illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

> What was claimed was "unique to TELSTRA in Australia"

Thanks for that completely superfluous proof that you have never ever had a ****ing
clue, you stupid pig ignorant drug crazed illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.