I contacted Red Laser with a couple of questions. The responses were useful.
Firstly they do not allow for an alternative barcode database, it is theirs, and theirs alone. Not terribly surprising as they are probably trying to drive merchants to register with them. They claim to have the largest registry around, 50 million codes. The second response was much more interesting, and one I should have thought of. We have discussed how to do personal tagging of items. Well, QR codes actualy encode text, so you can actually print your own QR codes and tag your own items. Then when you scan that tag, it will read out whatever you encoded in the QR code. This way you can use Red Laser as a reader for personally tagged items as well as UPC tagged items. I am liking this more and more. Dan Rossi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
