Today the CTIA announced a “Camera-Phone Based Barcode Scanning White Paper<\/a><\/em>” (PDF) at\u00a0the morning keynote. There was a demonstration\u00a0of scanning a bar code with a camera phone to launch a video on the handset.<\/p>\n
The paper essentially endorses two bar code formats; the open standard Data Matrix<\/a> (image, above)\u00a0and\u00a0 proprietary EZ Code<\/a>.<\/p>\n
What do you think? Comments are open.<\/p>\n
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Today the CTIA announced a “Camera-Phone Based Barcode Scanning White Paper” (PDF) at\u00a0the morning keynote. There was a demonstration\u00a0of scanning a bar code with a camera phone to launch a video on the handset. The white paper describes a somewhat complicated indirect access architecture where the code scanning application\u00a0sends an identifier to a central “Clearing House” which routes it to a “Campaign Manager” associated with\u00a0a particular service.\u00a0 The Campaign Manager then sends a message to the handset application directing it … Continue reading