QR Barcodes Provide Unlimited Access to FOX Network Fans

If you're a FOX Network junkie look no further. QR codes, or quick response codes, the two-dimensional bar codes now can offer you a way to get information on your favorite TV shows. Simply download  “QR Scanner” app for iPhones and the “Mobiletag Barcode Reader” app for all smartphones and automatically you'll have unlimited access to insider content, videos, first-look photos, show secrets, behind-the-scenes footage or exclusive cast interviews. To read more about FOX CODES visit TV by the Numbers

The Future: Food Traceability Cellphone Application

Grocery shopping consumers can finally get more for their money with a new food traceability cellphone application.
This new innovation will allow consumers to identity where the product they're buying at their local grocery is actually coming from. The idea behind the cellphone application was developed to alleviate the ongoing concern for food safety. The development timeline is still to be determined by we're guessing it'll hit markets within the next year.
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Leading UPC Barcode Printing Company, Zebra Technologies Announces it's New Availability

Bar Code Printing Now Brings Mobility Efficiencies to Back Office Operation 

(Zebra's Press Release)

Lincolnshire, Ill., Feb. 17, 2010 — Zebra Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: ZBRA), a global leader in specialty printing and automatic identification solutions, announces that bar code label printing is now available in Precisio Business Solutions’ Ascent for Salesforce CRM. Ascent is an integrated enterprise application suite built on the Force.com platform that provides full-function sales order management, inventory management, warehouse and supply chain management, material requirements, and manufacturing execution management. 

Bar code label printing enhances the benefits of Salesforce CRM by bringing vital materials management and production control data into warehouse applications. By utilizing data on the floor, the speed and accuracy of just-in-time manufacturing and warehouse management systems improves significantly. As a result, manufacturers experience lower inventory carrying costs, higher inventory turnover rates, and a reduction of misplaced inventory, leading to more cost effective manufacturing 

“More and more organizations have a growing need to better track their field and office-based assets,” said Marty Johnson, product marketing manager, Zebra Technologies. “Bringing bar code printing to the larger enterprise population will increase the efficiency gains that coordinated asset tracking can deliver.” 

Zebra’s extensive line of table and desktop printers are designed for their ease of use and integration. The full suite of cost-effective products available are built to handle a range of industries through various volume printing options, increasing workplace efficiency and reliability. Zebra’s table and desktop printers are an ideal print solution for many applications, including retail pricing labels, shipping and packaging labels, evidence and asset labels and visitor I.D. badges. 

“Utilizing a complete barcode solution for Salesforce CRM is enabling the sales force to focus on customers in a way that was not previously possible,” said Shaun McInerney, co-founder and vice president of sales and marketing, Precisio Business Solutions. “The increased accuracy and speed with which we can now track our sales orders and inventory is bringing new levels of efficiency to our back office operations and setting us up for greater success in 2010.” 

About Precisio Business Solutions 

Precisio Business Solutions is a premier supplier of enterprise business management solutions. The company’s flagship product, Ascent, is the best in class business system for businesses that have embraced the Force.com cloud platform. Built on years of experience in many different business models, Ascent has revolutionized the way businesses extend their Salesforce CRM deployment to gain deeper functionality by creating a robust integrated business model for streamlining and making every business process more efficient. For more information visit www.myinventorynow.com. 

UPS Barcode Technology Aids in Haitian Relief

The UPS Donated Barcode Scanning Equipment to the Salvation Army this past month to help Families Receive Critical Food and Supplies.

The donation has aided in relief by enabling the Salvation Army to replace old handwritten paper index cards with high-tech barcode technology.  This technology has ensured that more than 4,000 families have efficiently received food, shelter and medical supplies.

This is the second time UPS has kindly donated their technology for disaster relief. After Hurricane Katrina, the system was used for tracking displaced pets.

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