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The tweens taking up the seventh floor are instant-messaging while listening to Internet radio and downloading a pirated version of “Twilight” to watch later. The 200-person meeting in the ballroom has a full interactive multimedia presentation going for the next hour. And you do not want to know what the businessman in room 1208 is streaming on BitTorrent, but it is probably not a productivity booster.

These are just a few of the guests eating bandwidth at hotels today, and it is enough to break the average network backbone, or at least create bottlenecks. And no one—not those multitasking kids, not the conference attendees and certainly not the businessman on the top floor—is happy when that happens. Continue reading Heavy Users Tax Hotel Systems →

A QR Code (quick response) is a two-dimensional bar code created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. Initially used for tracking parts QR codes are now used in a much broader context, including both commercial tracking applications and convenience-oriented applications aimed at mobile phone users (known as mobile tagging).

QR codes storing addresses and URLs may appear in magazines, on signs, buses, business cards or just about any object that users might need information about. Users with a camera phone equipped with the correct reader software can scan the image of the QR Code causing the phone’s browser to launch and redirect to the programmed URL.

Users can also generate and print their own QR Code for others to scan and use by visiting one of several free QR Code generating sites.

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