July 28, 2004
KTF to Decode Barcodes
KTF, the nation's second largest mobile carrier, announced the launch of a “Product Barcode Recognition” service on August 2nd. The service enables users to get information of a product such as functionality simply by pointing their digital camera equipped cell phones at the barcode, reports Telecoms Korea.
"According to KTF, with the service, users just point at any barcode (EAN code) on commercial goods manufactured in Korea and get information of the goods through wireless Internet.
n April last year, KTF started “Hot Code” service, which decoded barcodes on printed media such as newspapers or magazines, for the first time in Korea.
The mobile operator said that it would provide a variety of information including book or music reviews as well as information of around 400,000 products in alliance with domestic online portal companies such as NHN and Interpark that have a large amount of product data. "
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