Citysearch & Antenna Audio Deploy Scanbuy's Mobile Barcode Technology to San Francisco, Enabling Instant Access to Information

Scanbuy's Technology Turns Camera Phones into Barcode Scanners - Connecting People to Local Information On-the-Go for the First Time in US. Citysearch will link San Francisco users to local content on various restaurants, businesses and leading services while Antenna Audio will provide instant information about local historical landmarks.

Scanbuy to Provide TDC with the First Mobile 2D Barcode Solution in Nordic Region

Scanbuy, a global leader in mobile 2D barcode and marketing solutions, announced today that TDC, Denmark's leading provider of mobile communications, will support its ScanLife platform and become only the second carrier in Europe to commercially release a 2D barcode service.

Print Magazines Quietly Testing Barcodes for Mobile Phones

Billboard, Wired and Car and Driver have been the first American magazines to test publishing the barcodes in their pages. Users download Scanbuy’s free software—compatible with 130 different camera phone models—and then use the camera feature as a scanning device, directly linking from the barcodes to the magazines’ WAP (wireless access protocol) sites.

ScanBuy 2D Barcode Application Now Compatible with Camera Enabled Blackberry Handset

NEW YORK, Jan. 29  /PRNewswire/ -- Scanbuy, a global leader in mobile marketing
solutions, announced today that its ScanLife mobile 2D barcode application is now
compatible with camera-enabled BlackBerry(R) smartphones from Research In Motion (RIM).

Scanbuy and Syscan Digital Announce a Strategic Partnership to Market 2D Services to Chinese Mobile Carriers

Scanbuy, Inc., (scanbuy.com), a global provider of mobile marketing solutions, and Syscan Digital Systems (syscano.com), a leading provider of 2D barcode solutions in China, today announced a strategic and long term partnership to market a range of 2D barcode services to mobile carriers in China.

The strategic partnership will create a solution combining technologies of both companies around 2D barcode services including: mobile ticketing and couponing, anti-fraud solutions and media codes such as WAP, SMS, or vCard codes that provide consumers with quick and simple access to digital content. The combined platform will be promoted by Chinese mobile operators and will leverage the respective strengths of both companies.

SCANBUY Focusing on 2D

Have you seen what I have seen on SCANBUY's web site?
No more SCANBUY Shopper in front page, a real focus on 2D.
I wonder what happened to the SDK business...

Scanbuy Awarded Two Patents for Decoding and Enhancing Barcodes for Mobile Devices

Scanbuy, Inc., (http://www.scanbuy.com/) a global provider of wireless commerce solutions today announced it has been granted two U.S. patents. The first patent addresses a method for decoding and analyzing barcodes using a mobile device to transmit and access information via WAP, SMS, or MMS. The second is focused on a system that provides an algorithm designed to enhance images of barcodes to facilitate the decoding process.

US Patent No. 7,156,311, describing a system for decoding barcodes using a mobile device like a cell phone equipped with a digital camera, uses software located on the mobile device to enhance the barcode image and subsequently decode the barcode information. The software uses the camera to read the barcode, transmit the decoded information to a server in multiple ways such as WAP, SMS, or MMS, and then connects the device via a wireless network to the corresponding media content and/or information.

U.S. patent No. 7,168,621 named "section based algorithm for image enhancement" provides a process for enhancing images of barcodes that can compensate for many shortcomings of camera-equipped mobile devices, allowing many more images captured by camera-phones to be decoded, and as a result enhances users' decoding experience.

"The patents we've been granted demonstrate the depth and strength of Scanbuys, ever growing, IP portfolio, and, more importantly, help to position Scanbuy as the partner of choice for handset manufacturers, carriers, content providers and advertisers," said Jonathan Bulkeley, Chief Executive Officer of Scanbuy, Inc.