Comments on: Pilot Program Launched for French Transit System http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2007/05/07/pilot-program-launched-for-french-transit-system/ All About Mobile 2.0 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:14:14 -0600 hourly 1 By: Paul Butler http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2007/05/07/pilot-program-launched-for-french-transit-system/comment-page-1/#comment-143979 Paul Butler Tue, 08 May 2007 22:16:25 +0000 http://mobilecrunch.com/2007/05/07/pilot-program-launched-for-french-transit-system/#comment-143979 Mobile bar codes are cool, but frankly I can't see them going anywhere. To encode anything worth encoding, you need more bits than can effectively captured with the average camera phone. Contacting a centralized service defeats the purpose, you might as well just give people a URL to open in their browser. Mobile bar codes are cool, but frankly I can’t see them going anywhere. To encode anything worth encoding, you need more bits than can effectively captured with the average camera phone. Contacting a centralized service defeats the purpose, you might as well just give people a URL to open in their browser.

]]> By: dlethe01 http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2007/05/07/pilot-program-launched-for-french-transit-system/comment-page-1/#comment-143416 dlethe01 Mon, 07 May 2007 21:37:44 +0000 http://mobilecrunch.com/2007/05/07/pilot-program-launched-for-french-transit-system/#comment-143416 Indeed, RAPT uses Scanbuy's solutions (Ezcode 2D code, Scanlife barcode reader). However, Scanbuy has never developed Scanlife. The real name of the 2D code/barcode reader is Visualcodes. Beat Gfeller and Michael Rohs have developed the Visualcodes at ETH Zurich. Scanbuy and ETH Zurich have arranged an exclusive license agreement for commercial use. http://www.engadgeted.net/archives/2005/09/18/matrix-codes-visual-code-recognition-on-cellphones/ http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/rohs/visualcodes/ Indeed, RAPT uses Scanbuy’s solutions (Ezcode 2D code, Scanlife barcode reader). However, Scanbuy has never developed Scanlife. The real name of the 2D code/barcode reader is Visualcodes. Beat Gfeller and Michael Rohs have developed the Visualcodes at ETH Zurich.
Scanbuy and ETH Zurich have arranged an exclusive license agreement for commercial use.
http://www.engadgeted.net/archives/2005/09/18/matrix-codes-visual-code-recognition-on-cellphones/
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/rohs/visualcodes/

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