A series of barcodes launched today by Telstra will give mobile customers
access to video presentations, store information, guided tours and movie
trailers, with the company to install them on mobile phones for free from
July 1.
The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares which, with a
single point and scan from a Telstra mobile phone camera, will take users to
mobile websites with to-the-minute information.
Users could scan a code on the back of a business card to add the person's
details to their mobile address book, or a real estate billboard to take a
virtual tour of a property.
Telstra group managing director for Consumer and Channels David Moffatt said
the technology had the potential to radically change the print and outdoor
advertising industry - with the codes able to be placed on surfaces
including print media, clothes, billboards, TVs and computer screens.
"Telstra Mobile Codes will revolutionise the way Australian access mobile
internet content and information, allowing a faster and simpler mobile
internet experience just by scanning a code through their phone camera," he
said.
A Telstra spokesman said the application - visible as a "Scan Code" option -
was installed on all new Next G mobiles, and would be installed
automatically on all Next G phones currently in the market.
"Alan Parkington" <patriot@iheartaustralia.com.au> wrote in message
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> From
> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=81221
>
> The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares which, with a
> single point and scan from a Telstra mobile phone camera, will take users
> to mobile websites with to-the-minute information.
>
<snip>
> The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.
and have been actively used in Japan since 2000, old technology
"Kwyjibo" <kwyjibo@ozdebate.remove.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Alan Parkington" <patriot@iheartaustralia.com.au> wrote in message
> news:CPJ8k.14826$IK1.14412@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>> From
>> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=81221
>>
>> The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares which, with
>> a single point and scan from a Telstra mobile phone camera, will take
>> users to mobile websites with to-the-minute information.
>>
> <snip>
>
>> The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.
>
> Funny. My Dopod 838pro that I obtained from Vodafone 18 months ago comed
> preinstalled with an app called Quickmark which reads these codes just
> fine. It's also available for the N95 at
> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/basic....asp#Nokia_N95 You can even
> generate your own QR codes online at
> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/diy/?qmLink
>
> Unique, my arse.
>
> --
> Kwyj.
>
"Horry" <horacewachope+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:01:27 +1000, thegoons wrote:
>
>> and have been actively used in Japan since 2000, old technology
>
> LOL. Barcodes have been used by Woolworths THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA since
> at least the early 1990s.
>
>
pity we were talking about 2 dimensional codes
> A series of barcodes launched today by Telstra will give mobile customers access to video presentations, store
> information, guided tours and movie trailers, with the company to install them on mobile phones for free from July 1.
Any barcode can do that, wanker.
> The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares which, with a single point and scan from a Telstra mobile
> phone camera, will
> take users to mobile websites with to-the-minute information.
Nice theory, pity about the reality, wanker.
> Users could scan a code on the back of a business card to add the person's details to their mobile address book,
You dont need any barcode to do that, or some dinosaur printed business card either, wanker.
> or a real estate billboard to take a virtual tour of a property.
Any barcode can do that, wanker.
> Telstra group managing director for Consumer and Channels
Wota wank of a title.
> David Moffatt
That silly wanker...
> said the technology had the potential to radically change the print and outdoor advertising industry
And wont, you watch.
> - with the codes able to be placed on surfaces including print media, clothes, billboards, TVs and computer screens.
Any barcode can do that, wanker.
> "Telstra Mobile Codes will revolutionise the way Australian access mobile internet content and information,
Only in your pathetic little drug crazed wanker fantasyland, you watch.
> allowing a faster and simpler mobile internet experience just by scanning a code through their phone camera," he said.
Any barcode can do that, wanker.
> A Telstra spokesman said the application - visible as a "Scan Code"
> option - was installed on all new Next G mobiles, and would be
> installed automatically on all Next G phones currently in the market.
And fuck all will bother to have it on anything, you watch.
> The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.
So fuck all will bother to have it on anything, you watch.
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:47:00 +1000, thegoons wrote:
>
> "Horry" <horacewachope+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in message
> newsan.2008.06.26.15.29.08.244742@gmail.com...
>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:01:27 +1000, thegoons wrote:
>>
>>> and have been actively used in Japan since 2000, old technology
>>
>> LOL. Barcodes have been used by Woolworths THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA since
>> at least the early 1990s.
>>
>>
> pity we were talking about 2 dimensional codes
What a moron. How many dimensions do you think the barcodes used by
Woolworths have? 3? 1?
Horry wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:47:00 +1000, thegoons wrote:
>
>> "Horry" <horacewachope+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> newsan.2008.06.26.15.29.08.244742@gmail.com...
>>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:01:27 +1000, thegoons wrote:
>>>
>>>> and have been actively used in Japan since 2000, old technology
>>> LOL. Barcodes have been used by Woolworths THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA since
>>> at least the early 1990s.
>>>
>>>
>> pity we were talking about 2 dimensional codes
>
> What a moron. How many dimensions do you think the barcodes used by
> Woolworths have? 3? 1?
>
>
On Tue, 5 Tamuz 5768 22:05 Leeroy Jenkins translated the ancient runes
thusly:
> Horry wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:47:00 +1000, thegoons wrote:
>>
>>> "Horry" <horacewachope+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> newsan.2008.06.26.15.29.08.244742@gmail.com...
>>>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:01:27 +1000, thegoons wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> and have been actively used in Japan since 2000, old technology
>>>> LOL. Barcodes have been used by Woolworths THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA
>>>> since at least the early 1990s.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> pity we were talking about 2 dimensional codes
>>
>> What a moron. How many dimensions do you think the barcodes used
>> by
>> Woolworths have? 3? 1?
>>
>>
>
> 1, actually.
Oh? And how do you work THAT out? Last I looked they had three, length
and breadth and the thickness of the print. Could say 4D as they also
exist temporally.
Kate
--
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*--- March of Cambreadth
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:06:01 in aus.comms.mobile Kate may have written:
> > 1, actually.
>
> Oh? And how do you work THAT out? Last I looked they had three, length
> and breadth and the thickness of the print. Could say 4D as they also
> exist temporally.
Maybe when you're talking dimensions in a physical world. But we're not
- we're talking the dimensions of a bar-code. Uinversal Product Code
(UPC) bar-codes are "linear" or "one dimensional" bar-codes as the
bar-code reader reads them in one dimension only - perpendicular to the
bars.
"Kwyjibo" <kwyjibo@ozdebate.remove.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Alan Parkington" <patriot@iheartaustralia.com.au> wrote in message
> news:CPJ8k.14826$IK1.14412@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>> From
>> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=81221
>>
>> The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares which, with
>> a single point and scan from a Telstra mobile phone camera, will take
>> users to mobile websites with to-the-minute information.
>>
> <snip>
>
>> The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.
>
> Funny. My Dopod 838pro that I obtained from Vodafone 18 months ago comed
Which part of "unique to TELSTRA in Australia" did you not understand?
"thegoons" <thegoons@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Horry" <horacewachope+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in message
> newsan.2008.06.26.15.29.08.244742@gmail.com...
>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:01:27 +1000, thegoons wrote:
>>
>>> and have been actively used in Japan since 2000, old technology
>>
>> LOL. Barcodes have been used by Woolworths THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA since
>> at least the early 1990s.
>>
>>
> pity we were talking about 2 dimensional codes
Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Kwyjibo" <kwyjibo@ozdebate.remove.com> wrote in message
> news:TPqdnS4ikYdQPP7VnZ2dnUVZ8qjinZ2d@westnet.com. au...
>>
>> "Alan Parkington" <patriot@iheartaustralia.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:CPJ8k.14826$IK1.14412@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>>> From
>>> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=81221
>>>
>>> The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares which,
>>> with a single point and scan from a Telstra mobile phone camera,
>>> will take users to mobile websites with to-the-minute information.
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.
>>
>> Funny. My Dopod 838pro that I obtained from Vodafone 18 months ago comed preinstalled with an app called Quickmark
>> which reads these codes just
>> fine. It's also available for the N95 at
>> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/basic....asp#Nokia_N95 You can even
>> generate your own QR codes online at
>> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/diy/?qmLink
>> Unique, my arse.
> Which part of "unique to TELSTRA in Australia" did you not understand?
Which part of 'unique ... in Australia' did you not understand, you
stupid pig ignorant drug crazed illiterate dunny cleaning fuckwit child ?
> Vodafone <> Telstra
You quite sure you aint one of those stupid pig ignorant drug crazed illiterate dunny cleaning fuckwit children ?
On Jul 21, 8:22*am, "Michael" <mich...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Which part of "unique to TELSTRA in Australia" did you not understand?
>
> Vodafone <> Telstra
Point being - it isn't unique to telstra at all. It's an open standard
with software available for just about any camera equipped phone.
They're just promoting it the most and trying to convince people that
the only we to use it is to have a telstra phone, and that simply
isn't true.
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> "Kwyjibo" <kwyjibo@ozdebate.remove.com> wrote in message
>> news:TPqdnS4ikYdQPP7VnZ2dnUVZ8qjinZ2d@westnet.com. au...
>>>
>>> "Alan Parkington" <patriot@iheartaustralia.com.au> wrote in message
>>> news:CPJ8k.14826$IK1.14412@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>>>> From
>>>> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=81221
>>>>
>>>> The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares which,
>>>> with a single point and scan from a Telstra mobile phone camera,
>>>> will take users to mobile websites with to-the-minute information.
>>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.
>>>
>>> Funny. My Dopod 838pro that I obtained from Vodafone 18 months ago comed
>>> preinstalled with an app called Quickmark which reads these codes just
>>> fine. It's also available for the N95 at
>>> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/basic....asp#Nokia_N95 You can even
>>> generate your own QR codes online at
>>> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/diy/?qmLink
>
>>> Unique, my arse.
>
>> Which part of "unique to TELSTRA in Australia" did you not understand?
>
> Which part of 'unique ... in Australia' did you not understand, you
> stupid pig ignorant drug crazed illiterate dunny cleaning fuckwit child ?
No one claimed "unique ... in Australia".
What was claimed was "unique to TELSTRA in Australia"
Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote
>>> Kwyjibo <kwyjibo@ozdebate.remove.com> wrote
>>>> Alan Poxington <wanker@iarseaustralia.com.au> wrote
>>>>> From
>>>>> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=81221
>>>>>
>>>>> The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares
>>>>> which, with a single point and scan from a Telstra mobile phone
>>>>> camera, will take users to mobile websites with to-the-minute
>>>>> information.
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>> The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.
>>>>
>>>> Funny. My Dopod 838pro that I obtained from Vodafone 18 months ago
>>>> comed preinstalled with an app called Quickmark which reads these
>>>> codes just fine. It's also available for the N95 at
>>>> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/basic....asp#Nokia_N95 You
>>>> can even generate your own QR codes online at
>>>> http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/diy/?qmLink
>>
>>>> Unique, my arse.
>>
>>> Which part of "unique to TELSTRA in Australia" did you not
>>> understand?
>> Which part of 'unique ... in Australia' did you not understand, you stupid pig ignorant drug crazed illiterate dunny
>> cleaning fuckwit child ?
> No one claimed "unique ... in Australia".
Yes, they did, you stupid pig ignorant drug crazed illiterate dunny cleaning fuckwit child.
> What was claimed was "unique to TELSTRA in Australia"
Thanks for that completely superfluous proof that you have never ever had a fucking
clue, you stupid pig ignorant drug crazed illiterate dunny cleaning fuckwit child.
On Jul 21, 6:58*pm, "Michael" <mich...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:6ei22bF7753nU1@mid.individual.net...
>
>
>
> > Michael <mich...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> "Kwyjibo" <kwyj...@ozdebate.remove.com> wrote in message
> >>news:TPqdnS4ikYdQPP7VnZ2dnUVZ8qjinZ2d@westnet.co m.au...
>
> >>> "Alan Parkington" <patr...@iheartaustralia.com.au> wrote in message
> >>>news:CPJ8k.14826$IK1.14412@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> >>>> From
> >>>>http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=81221
>
> >>>> The barcodes, known as QR codes, are two dimensional squares which,
> >>>> with a single point and scan from a Telstra mobile phone camera,
> >>>> will take users to mobile websites with to-the-minute information.
>
> >>> <snip>
>
> >>>> The technology is unique to Telstra in Australia.
>
> >>> Funny. My Dopod 838pro that I obtained from Vodafone 18 months ago comed
> >>> preinstalled with an app called Quickmark which reads these codes just
> >>> fine. It's also available for the N95 at
> >>>http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/basic...p#Nokia_N95You can even
> >>> generate your own QR codes online at
> >>>http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/diy/?qmLink
>
> >>> Unique, my arse.
>
> >> Which part of "unique to TELSTRA in Australia" did you not understand?
>
> > Which part of 'unique ... in Australia' did you not understand, you
> > stupid pig ignorant drug crazed illiterate dunny cleaning fuckwit child?
>
> No one claimed "unique ... in Australia".
>
> What was claimed was "unique to TELSTRA in Australia"
> >>> Unique, my arse.
>
> >> Which part of "unique to TELSTRA in Australia" did you not understand?
>
> > Which part of 'unique ... in Australia' did you not understand, you
> > stupid pig ignorant drug crazed illiterate dunny cleaning fuckwit child
> > ?
>
> No one claimed "unique ... in Australia".
>
> What was claimed was "unique to TELSTRA in Australia"
>And the claim is still false
When have Telstra in Australia used these barcodes before, then?
"Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> >>> Unique, my arse.
>>
>> >> Which part of "unique to TELSTRA in Australia" did you not understand?
>>
>> > Which part of 'unique ... in Australia' did you not understand, you
>> > stupid pig ignorant drug crazed illiterate dunny cleaning fuckwit child
>> > ?
>>
>> No one claimed "unique ... in Australia".
>>
>> What was claimed was "unique to TELSTRA in Australia"
>
>>And the claim is still false
>
> When have Telstra in Australia used these barcodes before, then?
Try looking up the meaning of the word 'unique', fuckwit. You clearly don't
have a clue.
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:27:34 -0500, Paul Day wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:06:01 in aus.comms.mobile Kate may have written:
>> > 1, actually.
>>
>> Oh? And how do you work THAT out? Last I looked they had three, length
>> and breadth and the thickness of the print. Could say 4D as they also
>> exist temporally.
>
> Maybe when you're talking dimensions in a physical world.
And THIS is why I was looking forward to the response.
> But we're not
> - we're talking the dimensions of a bar-code. Uinversal Product Code
> (UPC) bar-codes are "linear" or "one dimensional" bar-codes as the
> bar-code reader reads them in one dimension only - perpendicular to the
> bars.
Actually, it reads them in two dimensions. Because if there was no
"height" (parallel to the bars), the bar-code reader wouldn't be able to
"see" them.
I suppose YOU think there are bar-codes existing all around us, but that
we can't see them because they exist in only one dimension (perpendicular
to the bars)?
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:04:58 in aus.comms Horry may have written:
> And THIS is why I was looking forward to the response.
Why, because you enjoy the oppurtunity of making yourself look even
stupider?
> > But we're not - we're talking the dimensions of a bar-code.
> > Uinversal Product Code (UPC) bar-codes are "linear" or "one
> > dimensional" bar-codes as the bar-code reader reads them in one
> > dimension only - perpendicular to the bars.
>
> Actually, it reads them in two dimensions.
Nope - the information is stored in one dimension and it reads it in
one.
> Because if there was no "height" (parallel to the bars), the bar-code
> reader wouldn't be able to "see" them.
Yes, that's right - but it's still only reading _one_ of the dimensions.
It doesn't pay any attention to the height (ie, the second dimension).
That's only there to ensure the one dimension of information is actually
readable.
> I suppose YOU think there are bar-codes existing all around us, but
> that we can't see them because they exist in only one dimension
> (perpendicular to the bars)?
Again, it stores information in one dimension and is read in one
dimension. Yes, the bar code is a two dimensional printed image, but it
stores one dimension of information and is read in one dimension. A QR
code is also a two dimensional printed image but, unlike the UPC, it
contains two dimensions of information and is read in two dimensions.
Seeing you're obviously getting awfully confused by this
not-exactly-complex concept of dimensions of information storage vs
dimensions of an item in the physical world, go do some research before
you dig your hole deepper with your next response.
Barcodes bring mobile users to 21st century 
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