{"id":682484,"date":"2010-03-04T03:55:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T08:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5485388"},"modified":"2010-03-04T03:55:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T08:55:12","slug":"microsoft-gives-android-the-free-barcode-reading-tag-app-android-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/682484","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Gives Android the Free Barcode-Reading Tag App [Android Apps]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/340x_android-tag.jpg?w=340\" class=\"left image340\"   title=\"Microsoft Gives Android the Free Barcode-Reading Tag App\"\/>Now that the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5483662\/how-apple-and-googles-romance-turned-to-hate\">Apple Vs Google war<\/a> has eclipsed the Microsoft Vs Google war, Microsoft has felt it safe to quietly slip the Android platform a freebie. Tag is a high capacity color barcode reader also available for iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been around for some time on other platforms (BlackBerry and Symbian as well as the iPhone), and certainly isn&#8217;t the first <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5423053\/the-30-essential-android-apps\">barcode reader for Android<\/a>&mdash;but Tag is worth checking out as not only is it a free download, it&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_Capacity_Color_Barcode\">a more advanced<\/a> way of reading barcodes. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/tag\/archive\/2010\/03\/03\/microsoft-tag-reader-for-google-android-available.aspx\">MSDN<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/microsoft-makes-its-official-move-into-android-territory-0476637\/\">SlashGear<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=1f721508ee84e0f06f7949aa309b8027&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=1f721508ee84e0f06f7949aa309b8027&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=D5sOWH5MqPc:Icw38F299KY:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=D5sOWH5MqPc:Icw38F299KY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=D5sOWH5MqPc:Icw38F299KY:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=D5sOWH5MqPc:Icw38F299KY:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=D5sOWH5MqPc:Icw38F299KY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=D5sOWH5MqPc:Icw38F299KY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/D5sOWH5MqPc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the Apple Vs Google war has eclipsed the Microsoft Vs Google war, Microsoft has felt it safe to quietly slip the Android platform a freebie. Tag is a high capacity color barcode reader also available for iPhone. It&#8217;s been around for some time on other platforms (BlackBerry and Symbian as well as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RxO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}