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  November 6th 2008

  News Pepsi hoping QR tags catch on in Britain

  Pepsi is becoming the first major manufacturer to use quick response (QR) codes on its products ?allowing people get access to special offers online by 'reading' the tag with a mobile phone.

  Related categories : World-of-tech

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  April 2nd 2008

  News Mobile barcodes now deliver annoying jingles

  Like many Far-Eastern technologies, Japan's QR Code gets attention in the West more for being exotic than for any real benefit it brings, so we fully expect the latest all-singing version of the 2D barcode to follow suit

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  April 2nd 2007

  News Japan's 2D barcodes are common but unloved

  The business section of Sunday's New York Times has a rather breathless feature story [registration may be required] about an incredible new phenomenon that is sweeping the mobile phones of Japan - two-dimensional barcodes known as QR Codes.

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  May 2nd 2007

  News Colourful barcodes hold out hope for QR

  Last month we looked at the next-generation barcodes commonly found in Japan and pondered why few people seem to actually use them. It seems we aren't alone in thinking that something can be done to encourage their use.

  Related categories : Web , Mobile-phones

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  April 11th 2008

  News Mobile phone barcodes struggling in US trial

  We've often looked at the increasing role the humble barcode has to play in our lives, and particularly at the failings of the Japanese QR Code system. So it's a useful comparison to come across a US trial of the same technology

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  April 15th 2008

  News Why bother with high-end phones anyway?

  It may be from Japan, but a new survey that shows just how little people use the high-end features on their mobile phones is just as relevant anywhere in the world

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  March 26th 2008

  News Updated: Robot babysitters hit Japanese stores

  The latest 'only in Japan' story is that Japanese mums and dads can now leave their offspring with a friendly robot at the local department store. The news comes directly from Japanese retailer Aeon and robot-maker Tmsuk

  Related categories : Future-tech

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  April 5th 2007

  News Disney social site hits Japan's phones

  Social networking services (SNS) such as Friendster and MySpace are evidence of the popularity of interacting with like-minded people online, but none can be as cutesy as the new mobile-phone SNS from Disney Japan.

  Related categories : Web , Mobile-phones

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  May 20th 2008

  News McDonald's serves Java with mobile phone menu

  Just over a year after they agreed to work together, NTT DoCoMo and McDonald's Japan have finally come up with a product using the phone giant's RFID-equipped handsets.

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  August 23rd

  News Beyond the mouse: how input is evolving

  Can anything beat the traditional keyboard and mouse combination?

  Related categories : Computing , World-of-tech

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  September 24th 2008

  Reviews Toshiba XD-E500

  It's an unpredictable old world. Just when I was warming to HD DVD, Blu-ray goes and wins the hi-def format war ? thanks primarily to the PS3 and Warner. But rather than swallow its pride and switch to Blu-ray, or count the millions of dollars it spent on backing HD DVD with tears in its corporate eyes, Toshiba has instead considered what is arguably a much more important problem ? improving the subjective quality of DVD discs,

  Related categories : Dvd-players