Designed as a high-tech marketing resource, QR (quick response) codes have many useful applications. These (usually) black-and-white algorithmic codes are gateways to a potential multimedia nirvana.

Everywhere you look at the South by Southwest conference this week, you see QR codes. The square “quick response” codes turn URLs, vCards, or any kind of text into a jumble of pixels that you can scan ...

Nitin Gupta, founder of QRCodeChimp. He's a technology leader with over two decades of technology development and management experience. Retail brands adopt various marketing strategies to reach a ...

Originally developed in the mid-1990s for manufacturing and inventory control, QR codes most often appear as a small graphic that looks like randomly placed small black squares arranged in a ...

Created in 1994 by Toyota subsidiary 'Denso Wave' to quickly track vehicles and parts through the company's automotive manufacturing process, QR codes are used more commonly today for logging into ...