The Starbucks Card Mobile iPhone application can be now used to pay for Starbucks purchases via barcode scan at more than 1,000 Target locations across the United States. (via Pay for Starbucks with Your iPhone at 1,000 Target Stores)
At launch, SimpleGeo will offer two distinct products — the SimpleGeo Storage Engine and a Marketplace — for companies and developers looking to capitalize on the location trend with less resource investment upfront. Down the road SimpleGeo plans to add comprehensive visualization and analytics tools to their offerings. (via SimpleGeo Launches As an iTunes for Geo-Data)
Researchers from Sunchon National University in Suncheon, South Korea, and Rice University in Houston have built a radio frequency identification tag that can be printed directly onto cereal boxes and potato chip bags. The tag uses ink laced with carbon nanotubes to print electronics on paper or plastic that could instantly transmit information about a cart full of groceries. “You could run your cart by a detector and it tells you instantly what’s in the cart,” says James M. Tour of Rice University, whose research group invented the ink. “No more lines, you just walk out with your stuff.”
(New RFID Tag Could Mean the End of Bar Codes via Wired Science)
From the looks of the screenshot embedded above, there are two types of QR codes: a personal barcode or a “status QR barcode”. This also seems to appear on Facebook Fan Pages.
Judging from the tweets about this
, the QR codes don’t seem to actually function yet, and the links on pages appear to come and go.
Fandango is launching a mobile ticket program in eight cities which lets moviegoers finally go paperless. Your ticket is delivered to your mobile phone via an SMS or MMS message linked to a 2D barcode, which the ticket-takers can scan. Movie theaters need to equip their attendees with special scanners, which is why it is only available in a few markets.
Fandango Begins Rolling Out Mobile Tickets That Let Moviegoers Go Paperless
