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QR codes, that most awesome technology that has swept across Japan, but faced little to no success anywhere else, will be put to use by Continental airlines, an American airline, to speed up flight check in and boarding. Instead of having to print out a boarding pass you simply show a picture of a QR code on your mobile phone to the person holding a scanner.
If American’s start using this then will QR code adoption rise? Google is already working hard to make an open source QR code reader application which presumably will tie into their efforts to expand their ad sale business onto paper. The more people know about QR codes then the more they’ll be willing to use them, right?
They are the simplest way to bridge the online world with the offline world.
[Via: New York Times]
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
