Microsoft ‘Tags’ 2 billion real-world objects with its phone-friendly barcodes
October 28, 2010 No Comment
Microsoft might be late to the cameraphone-able barcode game, but it appears to be making up for lost time. Its multi-colored (and, frankly, rather attractive) Tag barcodes added a few important innovations on top of the general QR code concept, and apparently to good effect: 2 billion Tags have been printed since the January 2009 launch, and 1 billion of those Tags were printed in the past four months. Sounds like Microsoft has found some momentum, and they claim to have gained a lead in the publishing industry already. Obviously, the analytics, customization, and anti-fragmentation nature appeals to Big Barcode, but we’ll have to wait and see if Tag is the ultimate choice of the everyman. Plus, won’t ads be able to hack our brains and implant URLs at-will soon enough? We’re holding out for that. Continue reading Microsoft ‘Tags’ 2 billion real-world objects with its phone-friendly barcodes Microsoft ‘Tags’ 2 billion real-world objects with its phone-friendly barcodes originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo: West Orlando News While there’s still some fuzziness around what precisely caused the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to explode — a series of malfunctions, design flaws, and human errors all played a role — we can agree all agree on one thing: Poor oversight and shoddy regulation enabled the situation to reach critical mass. But that’s all behind us, right? I mean, the Obama administration has lifted the ban on offshore drilling, after ass… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Guinea has scheduled its long-delayed presidential run-off vote for 7 November, according to a presidential decree read out on state TV. The vote was…
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By Agence France Presse (AFP) Thursday, October 28, 2010 – Powered by –> Majeda El Batsh Agence France Presse UMM AL-FAHM, Israel: Israeli police and stone-throwing Arabs clashed in northern Israel Wednesday as a group of extreme right-wing Israelis tried to march through the Arab Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm. Hundreds of police clad in riot gear fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse angry Arab youths, many with scarves wrapped around their faces, who burned tires and hurled stones in protest ahead of an extremist rally in their town. Tensions were high as around 20 Israeli demonstrators from a group called “Our Land of Israel” turned up for a march calling for a ban on…
Continue reading …Sprint fails to impress Wall Street with Q3 2010 earnings, still notches 644k net adds
October 27, 2010 No Comment
Sprint certainly isn’t out of the woods yet, but at least it’s picking up customers from somewhere. The company’s Q3 2010 earnings were ushered out today, and while its stock fell around ten percent on the news, a few silver linings were present. The carrier saw postpaid subscriber losses of 107,000, but that’s an 87 percent improvement compared to Q3 2009. The CDMA network added approximately 276,000 postpaid customers during the quarter, 471,000 (net) prepaid subscribers and 644,000 total wireless subscribers from a net perspective. It also landed its second best postpaid churn result ever, but the bottom line still looks battered — the operator announced a net loss of nearly a billion dollars ($911 million, if you’re scouting specifics). Of course, phasing out iDEN should probably help things in the long run, but even its 4G advantage could quickly fade if (or more likely, when) Verizon gets its LTE act together next year. Sprint fails to impress Wall Street with Q3 2010 earnings, still notches 644k net adds originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Pakistani-American Farooque Ahmed arrested over Washington subway bomb plot
October 27, 2010 No Comment
A PAKISTANI-American was arrested overnight for plotting to cause carnage on Washington's subway system by carrying out bomb attacks….
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The actor explains why he’s chosen to discuss his relationship with Courteney Cox on Howard Stern’s radio show and his Halloween plans. (Oct. 27)
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Comedian Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” is scheduled to take place on the National Mall in Washington Saturday, but as AP’s Matt Friedman reports, details on the event are limited. (Oct. 27)
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By Marcia Alesan Dawkins Sharron Angle’s recent confusing remarks about race and ethnicity serve a unique purpose. They provide an opportunity to open dialogue in a campaign season that has been more focused on economics than on ethnicity. Could it be that the two are connected? Related Entries October 21, 2010 Too Much Fox-Flavored Kool-Aid for Juan Williams October 20, 2010 POTUS and FLOTUS: Get in the (Midterm) Game
Continue reading …From Drudge: Kagan’s first vote is against an execution — over safety of lethal injection drug… Yeah, we wouldn’t want to execute somebody with drugs that aren’t safe. This is what you get when you put liberal law professors on the Supreme Court.
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