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2D barcode based technology that allows you to put certain information in a “tag” which you can publish/print anywhere. And then, just install Microsoft Tag Reader application in your camera phone and when you just point your camera to the “tag”, it will automatically reveal the information, within seconds…

This Beta version can be used for pointing to vCard, URLs or plaintext information. Plus, with custom tags you can use any picture of your choice and just embedd it with tag graphics.

Here is my vCard tag as sample:

vCard of Vaibhav Sathe

When you will point your phone to this tag, it will automatically load the vCard details as per Contact format of your phone – (Supported: iPhone, WinMo, Blackberry, Symbian or J2ME). All you need is an average quality camera and a GPRS connection.

“] Microsoft Tag reading my vCard tag on iPhone

Contact read from tag can be saved as new or added to existing

More information on MS Tag can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/tag/

Also you can see – High Capacity Color Barcode on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tag#Microsoft_Tag