Neomedia holds the patent 6,199,048 for indirect resolution of barcodes :
1.) the user initiates the code scan on his device and the scanner software retrieves the Identifier encoded in the barcode
2.) the scanner sends the Identifier to a online service to retrieve the associated URL
3.) the scanner is handing the URL to the […]

What?? As many of you probably know, Alexis and me run TigTags and PercentMobile together with Dave Harper. We provide professional mobile analytics. We have a comprehensive database of devices with tons of properties, one of them is whether the device supports QR Codes and what reader you can download. We ran a query over […]

Over the years we have been harvesting a mobile device database for our TigTags service and decided to use it to provide a QR Code Reader download service. Simply visit:
http://tigtags.com/getqr
with your mobile device and we see if we have a QR Code Reader for you. We didn’t include every QR Code Reader in the world, […]

Sad, but true:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/NeoMedias-Barcode-Lookup-bw-14397693.html
What I don’t understand is if that covers direct QR Codes with the URL embedded as well. All the patents I have seen so far were describing indirect barcode usage that require a trip to the server to get the URL and send the URL back to the User.
Can anyobody shed a […]

First thing I did when I got my T-Mobile G1 was installing the zxing barcode reader, worked without problems. Scanning of QR Codes is picture perfect, provides a good viewfinder and renders the result of the scan nicely by displaying the code and the resulting URL. Excellent job!
The barcode reader component also supports 1D […]

Over the course of the last weeks we have been testing some QR Code Readers for the iPhone and we are happy to give you a recommendation if you are still looking for a good one. It quickly came down to two readers the Neomedia NeoReader and the Beetagg Reader. They both do very well […]

That came in via a google alert on semapedia:
“Scanbuy, a global leader in mobile marketing solutions, today announced that it has secured a global agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to preload the ScanLife mobile 2D barcode application on Samsung’s camera phones.”
CEO Jonathan Bulkeley of Scanbuy went so far as to call the agreement a
“watershed […]

Been trying the Beetag Reader for Palm Devices on a Palm Centro, worked really well, can only recommend it. Also tried them on our www.videomeetsfunction.com project to see how it handles streaming video from youtube, not bad at all (Sprint PCS Network), pretty good quality!

Those are very good news, no Schadenfreude, but we are so glad that those ridiculous patent claims by the patent troll neomedia got rejected, they included reading an ID from a barcode or RFID chip from a cellphone, sending it to server, resolving it to a URL and sending the URL back to the cellphone, […]

Good news, one more great working QR Code Reader for the iPhone from Beetag, works very very well, but no constant scanning yet, you still need to tap the screen. The Reader also supports Datamatrix and their own 2d barcode.

Installation instructions …