CYBRA Corporation

Winter has been wicked in the Northeast. It seems that every minute I look out window there's white stuff falling, and lots of it. My usual response to lots of snow is to stock up on lots of popcorn and hot chocolate, pop in a DVD, and enjoy what Netflix delivers to my home.  So for my wife (a native Floridian) and I to venture out in the cold slush, we needed a pretty good reason.

Photographers who cover events such as road races, or sports teams, or school photography, are faced with a challenge. How to present pictures of each participant for purchase without requiring each subject to browse through hundreds or thousands of pictures.  A new professional photography service, snapizzi, uses DataMatrix 2D bar codes to automate the proofing and sale of event photos.

What do the NYC Marathon, AC power outlets, recyclables, and pet dogs have in common? RFID tags! Here's how they're helping spectators track their favorite runners, electric grids run smarter, recyclables get recycled, and your pooch, and only your pooch, get in and out of the house.

It can be quite a lot of fun to watch technology evolve in real time -- and at warp speed. Join me as I share the timeline of how an RFID-enabled iPhone went from rumor to market -- in less than two weeks.

November 5 -- Near Field Communications World breaks the news that Einar Rosenberg, the chief technology officer at NFC specialist Narian Technologies and who runs the Near Field Communications Group on Linkedin.com reported that "a highly reliable source has informed me that Apple has built some prototypes of the next gen iPhone with an RFID reader built in and they have seen it in action." And for a little visual spice, they added the Touch Project's iPhone RFID demonstration video.

These bar codes may look funky. But they work. According to TPMA Outlook, a number of Japanese companies have begun putting stylized bar codes on their products. And why not? They occupy a lot of real estate on packaging – why not make them at least interesting, and possibly even integrate into the packaging message? Want to try this with your products?

The one cent RFID tag may be here sooner than you think. Xerox scientists have developed a low cost silver ink to print flexible circuitry that could make one cent RFID tags a reality. With the development of the new silver ink, Xerox scientists have paved the way for commercialization and low-cost manufacturing of printable electronics. Printable electronics offers manufacturers a very low-cost way to add RFID tags to a wide range of surfaces such as plastic or fabric. This development will aid the commercialization of new applications such as "smart" pill boxes that track how much medication a patient has taken and even display screens that roll up to fit into a briefcase.

We've added the newest recorded webinar videos to our site: "MarkMagic Advanced Topics" and "Develop System i Web Apps with WOW." Grab some popcorn and follow the link...

What a pleasant surprise when I browsed over to "Google" a search term today and I was greeted by a familiar symbol -- a Code 128 bar code in place of the multi-color Google logo.

The numbers will surprise you. Read my article on the topic for Monday's MC Press Online here

New MarkMagic 7 Enterprise Is Our Most Powerful Version Yet with All-New Report Writing, Conditional Printing, and Dynamic Formatting. How do these features work? How do you integrate new MarkMagic FormComposer report writer and PrintTransformer conditional printing? 

There's still time to join us for a special advanced webinar tomorrow, Thursday,  October 1, to learn how to use the key new features in MarkMagic 7 Enterprise Edition and help your company save money and increase productivity.

Don't miss this webinar -- register today!