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Microsoft Releases Tag, Its Second iPhone Application
TechCrunch — ... last month. The name of the application is Microsoft Tag, and it enables users to instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, promotions, etc. simply by pointing the device’s camera to a special tag. ...

Microsoft’s second iPhone app: Microsoft Tag
iPhone Buzz — Microsoft has introduced its second iPhone app after the launch of Seadragon Mobile last month: Microsoft Tag. Just point the device’s camera to a custom tag and instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, and more. Long Zheng of IStartedSomething wrote: Microsoft Tag is based on a whole new technology called High Capacity Color Barcodes (HCCBs), which was invented in-house by Microsoft Research. The difference is not using square pixels, ...

Microsoft’s second iPhone app: Microsoft Tag
Top iPhone News — Microsoft has introduced its second iPhone app after the launch of Seadragon Mobile last month: Microsoft Tag. Just point the device’s camera to a custom tag and instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, and more. Long Zheng of IStartedSomething wrote: Microsoft Tag is based on a whole new technology called High Capacity Color Barcodes (HCCBs), which was invented in-house by Microsoft Research. The difference is not using square pixels, ...

Video: Macworld Expo Tour in Two Minutes
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Microsoft offers second app for iPhone
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... First, download Tag Reader from the App Store and install it on your iPhone. Then, test it against some samples on the Microsoft Tag web page. Next, if you like, you can create your own tags. You'll need a Microsoft Live ID, but those are free. I tried creating one for our TUAW website and it came back as blacklisted (#$&!!). Is it something we said? ...

Tag, You're in 2D!
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — ... reserve their respective intellectual property rights.) Larger tags can encode thousands of characters of text; tiny tags, a short URL or an MMS number. Varying amounts of error correction - the amount affecting the ultimate area occupied by the code - can be specified to deal with distortions in printing or in the image captured by a camera. Proprietary formats from Scanbuy, Microsoft (Microsoft Tag), and JagTag encode a number which is looked via a database operated by ...