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Survey: Older adults less likely to use QR codes

Survey: Older adults less likely to use QR codes

| August 15, 2013 | 0 Comments

Does your grandma use QR codes? If she’s over the age of 60, there’s more of a chance that she hasn’t. That’s not being snarky or ageist. To paraphrase the late great Richard Dawson, it’s what the survey says. A new study has found that older adults are only 13 percent as likely to have […]

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Scan here for sustainable sushi

Scan here for sustainable sushi

| August 1, 2013 | 2 Comments

With mislabeled seafood a nationwide concern, the folks at Harney Sushi wanted to get the message out: not only is their fish exactly what the menu says it is, but it comes from sustainable sources. Scannable QR codes seemed like a solution, but, as manager Carmina Katigbak put it, “You see QR codes all over […]

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Artist Guillermo Bert weaves QR codes into indigenous tapestries

Artist Guillermo Bert weaves QR codes into indigenous tapestries

| July 18, 2013 | 0 Comments

When you look at a QR code, you likely see a collection of pixelated lines and shapes coded to label a product or a piece of inventory or equipment. When an artist like Guillermo Bert looks at the same QR code, he sees something entirely different. The mixed media artist had been incorporating various kinds of encrypted […]

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Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) proven to reduce retail shrink

Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) proven to reduce retail shrink

| June 20, 2013 | 0 Comments

Most consumers are familiar with Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS), even if they don’t know it by that name. But who hasn’t seen—or been—that shopper who walks happily out of a department store with the security tag on a newly purchased garment still activated? Suddenly you’re stuck—deer-in-the-headlights style—while the tag triggers an eardrum-splitting tone that lasts […]

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How tagging horseshoe crabs saves the world (or at least a few lives)

How tagging horseshoe crabs saves the world (or at least a few lives)

| June 7, 2013 | 0 Comments

Ten preschoolers and 15 second graders arrived at Southport Beach in Fairfield, Connecticut, one cloudy morning recently, to take part in a wildlife tagging study. It was low tide as they made their way across the beach, scanning the sand for a glimpse of the brown, helmet-shaped shells that beachgoers up and down the eastern coast […]

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Asset disposal security: an IT no-brainer

Asset disposal security: an IT no-brainer

| April 3, 2013 | 0 Comments

Which has more value: an armored truck or a van carting away a bunch of old computers? This is not a trick question. It’s one that Kyle Marks, founder and CEO of Retire-IT, asks his clients. And the answer is easy, says the Columbus, Ohio-based entrepreneur, but it eludes most businesses. “The armored truck might, […]

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Asset management in transition at the DoD

Asset management in transition at the DoD

| March 18, 2013 | 1 Comment

Asset management has come a long way since the days when a Corporal Klinger type could pick up the phone and finagle a turkey — or a tank — for his M*A*S*H unit. But have the military’s procedures come a long way with it?

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