NeoMedia CEO Iain McCready on mobile barcode licensing, competitors and lawsuits

Bena: Hi Iain, lovely to speak to you again and thanks for talking to me. First of all, congratulations.

Mobile Tag licenses NeoMedia’s mobile barcode patents

French mobile barcode player Mobile Tag (with CEO Chip Hoffmann who was the ex-CEO of NeoMedia) will be the first company to license NeoMedia’s mobile indirect code patents.
This is the first licensing agreement from NeoMedia and a milestone for the company that has been hindered by law suits and an all over patent war.

U.S. MOBILE BARCODE MARKET POISED FOR GROWTH – NEOMEDIA ANNOUNCES FIRST LICENSING DEAL WITH MOBILE TAG

ATLANTA / LONDON, July 29, 2009 – Today NeoMedia Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: NEOM), and Mobile Tag, Inc. leaders in mobile barcode technology, announce a non-exclusive patent licensing agreement for machine readable mobile codes under NeoMedia’s patent portfolio. This is the first contract to be announced under NeoMedia’s recently launched licensing program.
NeoMedia’s objective is [...]

Mobile Tag creates new 2D mobile barcode service called Mobilites for Paris

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Mobile Tag is to provide JCDecaux with 2D mobile barcodes (called Flashcodes) for bus shelters within the Digital Area or Quartier Numerique in Paris.

Mobile Tag barcodes for GPhones and Blackberry

Mobile Tag is now available on the GPhone and Blackberry.

MTag launches 2D Tune Your Tag mobile marketing campaign

MTag has launched a new service called Tune Your Tag. It is a 2D mobile barcode for brands that will enable users to personalise mobile barcodes.
What can you do?
Well you can submit your own tags to MTag, personalise them, change the colour  - share them and innovate with your tag making tags for different groups, friends [...]

MTag launches mobile barcode ID service MEEPASS

French company MTag has officially launched MEEPASS, a service we first encountered before MWC. USing 2d barcodes, the service is intended to guarantee the identity of a mobile device owner at the point of sale. The device itself can then be used to purchase a product or service. The idea is to create a service [...]

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