qodeSmall.pngIn den vergangenen Wochen ist viel spekuliert und diskutiert worden, was Neomedia denn nun mit seinen Zukäufen (mobot, sponge, 12snap, Gavitec) anstellt und wann qode (vormals paperclick) denn nun gelauncht wird. Gestern erhielt ich die Pressemeldung von Neomedia (mein Dank für den Hinweis geht an Rafael).

NeoMedia Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: NEOM), an innovator in market-driven technologies, has commenced the first pilot program for its patented qode® technology that links consumers and their cell phones directly to information and offers on the Mobile Internet.

The program includes display ads running multiple times a week for 13 weeks in The News-Press – the daily newspaper in Fort Myers, where NeoMedia is headquartered – and where it is launching the U.S. flagship location of AutoXperience®, a NeoMedia business unit (formerly NeoMedia Micro Paint Repair).

The NeoMedia program marks the first time in the U.S. that newspaper ads will incorporate a two-dimensional “smartcode,” which can be scanned by the qode®reader software installed on a cell phone to link to an offer on the Mobile Internet… in this case, a 10% off coupon from AutoXperience.

Readers are invited to visit the AutoXperience Web site (www.autoXperience.com), where they can download the qode Mobile Software if their cell phone uses the Symbian® Series 60 operating system prevalent on Nokia® handsets. Other handset users can still access the offer by means of the Web-based version of the qode®window part of the software, to which they are directed as part of the quick and easy download process.

“We are testing the future of advertising via newspaper ads which link to the screens of consumers’ cell phones,” said Martin Copus, president of NeoMedia Mobile and COO of the parent company. “This pilot program brings to life what advertisers and marketers have been searching for and talking about for years –the ability for one-to-one, 24/7 communication with consumers, with all the multimedia possibilities of the mobile Internet.”

“This is just the beginning,” Mr. Copus said. “While NeoMedia is excited to launch this pilot program for qode in conjunction with the grand opening of our AutoXperience business in the U.S., we are looking ahead to bringing this ground-breaking technology fully to market — across different operating systems in the U.S. and overseas — in the very near future.”

“NeoMedia’s product development pipeline is very much full,” he said, “given our goal of establishing qode as the worldwide industry standard for direct-to-Web connectivity from mobile handsets.”


So schlägt Neomedia gleich zwei Launches mit einer Klappe. Spannend bleibt es aber, wann ein nennenswertes qode-Projekt mit einem “echten” Kunden realisiert wird.

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