Netkiller Barcode Scanner is Now Supported on the iPhone!

The Netkiller Barcode Scanner application is an example of Netkiller’s Pure Google Apps Solutions.  The application is developed entirely on the cloud, so no added software is necessary; all that’s needed is a either a USB scanner or a smartphone.  Previously only supported on the Android, this convenient cost-saving application can now be used with an iPhone.

How does the app work?
The Netkiller Barcode Scanner utilizes a Google Docs based database, which logs and updates information about stock, inventory, or other items automatically when a barcode is scanned from a mobile device.  The database is customizable at set up, so it can accommodate any number of item management needs, from sales to acquisitions, and much more.

The first time an item is scanned the scanner will be prompted to input relevant details, such as the item’s designation (name) and status (e.g. ‘In Stock’).  Subsequent scans of the same item will prompt the scanner to update the item’s information (e.g. status ‘Check Out’).  All of these inputs and changes are logged instantly into the online database.

Simply install the Netkiller Barcode Scanner into Google Apps, and the application benefits from the same service level agreement as Google Apps (99.9% uptime guarantee if you are using Google Apps for Business).  This Pure Google Apps Solution provides cloud based barcode scanning functions that eliminate the need for hand written and manual filing.  With a built-in Google Docs database, there is no need for bulky data storage.  In addition, the Google Spreadsheet database can be easily edited and shared with partners and clients.  The Netkiller Barcode Scanner is customizable and easy to use.  The system is expandable to Point-of-Sale and Inventory systems, and can be integrated with Salesforce and Force.com accounts.

The system requirements for this web application are minimal.  All that is required is an Internet browser (e.g. Google Chrome, etc.), Google Apps (Business, Education, or free version), and a USB Barcode Scanner or either an Android or iPhone.

The Netkiller Barcode Scanner application can be downloaded for free for up to 100 items for small inventory needs, or as a trial.  For use with over 100 items the Netkiller Barcode Scanner can be custom developed for a one-time payment contingent on development needs.

About Netkiller
Netkiller is an Information Technology integration firm based in San Jose, Seoul, and Tokyo. The name originated from the ‘Network Trouble Killers’ community (over 25,000 members), which has been active since 1997 and was incorporated in 2004. Netkiller has almost a 10 year history of innovation in IT and Cloud Computing.

Netkiller has core competencies in several key industry sectors: Google Enterprise Solutions (Google Apps, Google Earth&Maps, Google Postini, Google Search Appliance Sales Cloud Solution), Salesforce.com CRM Service Cloud Solution, IT Asset Management and IT Service Management Service. Netkiller is a Google Enterprise Business Partner, Salesforce.com Partner (Consulting / ISV / Force.com) and Google Apps Authorized Reseller. Netkiller currently services over 20,000 company accounts worldwide including banks, research institutions, government agencies, universities and multinational corporations.

Industrial-strength barcode scanner labels can survive most ...

Posted February 1, 2012

Barcode readers help businesses organize their inventory tracking, but labels offer management assistance as well. Companies can use thermal transfer and direct thermal barcode labels to ensure consistent tracking throughout an organization.

Thermal transfer labels are an ideal option for many businesses, providing a smooth surface for high-quality printing. Businesses use the labels to track a variety of goods, but regardless of the item, the labels will likely stick. The thermal transfer design includes a permanent adhesive, ensuring companies can use them for any barcode systems or price tags. 

Direct thermal label printers help vendors because many of these devices do not require a ribbon, which can help save money on replacement costs. However, users' options are limited as they can print only black text on the labels that will darken as they are exposed to heat and sunlight. In addition, the labels will last less than a year, making them popular for food vendors as they sell products with expiration dates.

Zebra offers a full selection of barcode printer thermal transfer and direct thermal labels to suit any company's needs. The labels give businesses options as they search for ways to improve inventory tracking. 

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Wasp Launches Barcode Scanner and Mobile Computer | Quality ...

Wasp Barcode Technologies provides data capture and tracking solutions designed specifically for small business. Besides barcode scanners/printers/software, Wasp’s solutions include inventory control, asset tracking, time and attendance, and point-of-sale systems, and mobile computers. Based in Plano, Texas, Wasp has international offices in London and sells its products in North America, Australia, and Europe through leading retail stores.

Types Of Bar Code Scanners | dear,welcome to my dresses blog

The kinds of barcode scanners are all various and distinctive. This post aims to supply particulars info on the topic.

Barcode scanners are light emitting hand held devices use to read barcodes. The device is attached to pc or laptop which shops coded message by the length and width in the bars and spaces which are printed in pattern. It features a code reader and decoder. The barcode scanners are on every thing correct from the groceries to auto parts. It’s the greatest asset to run a company.

We’ve been utilizing barcode scanners for numerous years and much more advanced technologies is becoming introduced to us each and every year. They’re accessible in various varieties like the hands totally free, hand held, rugged, wearable, scan engines, laser or digital. The simplest device will be the Penwand scanners which need to be kept in direct get in touch with using the barcode and to become held at precis angle. To read the bars you’ll need to move the penwand scanner more than it. The common objective scanner because the name indicates is utilized for common purposes,polo outlet,, to procedure identification documents and checkout counters and hospitals. Other types of scanners are utilized in harsh circumstances like rugged scanners.

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The image scanner and laser scanner in the barcode scanner are the 1 with distinguishing functions. The image scanner features a camera in it that captures the barcode pictures. These bar code pictures are then processed by sophisticated image methods to decode the barcode. Usually the majority of the image scanners scan barcode information from a distance of 5 to ten inches away. In laser scanner lenses are utilized to read the bar codes. The application in the laser scanner assists in reading the barcode placed at any angle. The much more advanced technologies of laser scanner reads the barcode from the distance of 24 inches. Contemporary laser scanners have outwit the capacity of laser scanner by reading the information from the distance of 30 feet. Each the scanners are effective in their very own way but nonetheless have pros and cons in their use. The laser scanner becoming much more advanced is much more costly however the lenses of such scanners are much more prone to put on and tear. Whereas the image based scanner is much less costly but lacks internal movable parts generating it much less resistant to drops or knocks.

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Wasp Trains SystemID on New Barcode Scanners and Mobile ...

Wasp Barcode Technologies came in to SystemID to train our sales team on January 27, 2012. Armed with lunch and brand new products to be revealed, the training began promptly at 11 a.m. 

Lynn Lee, Wasp Director of Hardware Development, is all smiles about their new WWS450 cordless 2D scanner and the antimicrobial healthcare version, WWS450H.

Brad Vinson, Channel Account Manager, and Lynn Lee, Director of Hardware Development, from Wasp gave the training. They started with a brand new scanner that was just released: the WWS450 cordless 2D scanner. The first of its kind in the Wasp scanner family and it does not disappoint.

The WWS450 has a Bluetooth radio with a working range over 250ft., batch mode capabilities, a 4ft drop spec., and an IP30 seal rating. All of this combined with an aggressive 2D scan engine and you have got yourself a very nice scanner. It even has a healthcare model with antimicrobial protection.

All of these features are great, but the next thing I am going to tell you may knock your socks off…It has open Bluetooth capabilities. That means it works with iPads and Android tablets via Bluetooth. This has been tested and confirmed. This is huge news in the scanning world!

“Ok, all that sounds great,” you are probably saying to yourself, “but what about the price?” Try under $700. I am telling you folks this is one hot little scanner!

Lynn Lee, Director of Hardware Development, talks about the new DT10 mobile computer. This small, batch device is ideal for light industrial inventory tracking. Soon, Wasp will have options for 2D scanning and WLAN.

Next up was Wasp’s brand-spankin’ new mobile computer: the DT10 economy mobile computer. This mobile device is also a first for Wasp as it has optional 2D, 802.11 wireless, and cellular features. Those optional functions come on top of a superior scan engine, 256MB flash memory, a Windows CE 5.0 operating system, and an IP54 seal rating.

Pretty impressive. And you get the base model for under $950. That’s right: a highly functional, sleek, slim yet durable mobile computer for about $900 bucks.

The training ended at about 1 p.m. with our bellies stuffed and our minds racing, almost as fast as our feet. We wanted to get on the phones and tell our customers what we had learned about these exciting new products.

For years, our sales team has been trained by the top barcode equipment manufacturers several times a month. We just decided to start blogging about them. I hope you look forward to reading about them.

I have a great idea; why don’t you, the loyal readers let me know what you would most like to learn about. Maybe we could set up a training and blog about what we learned? Leave a comment and let me know.

Bar code scanning goes through the roof | QR Code Reader

It seems consumers are becoming fond of bar code scanning apps for their smartphones, apps that can be used to find more information about products, watch videos, shop an m-commerce site, enter contests, compare prices and much more.

Scanbuy, a QR code purveyor and Quick Response marketing campaign manager, registered 31 million scans of 1-D and 2-D bar codes worldwide in 2011 through its ScanLife app. That’s up 297% from 7.8 million in 2010. There were 11 million scans in the fourth quarter of 2011, up 175% from 4 million in Q4 2010. There were more bar code scans through ScanLife in Q4 2011 than in all of 2009 and 2010 combined, Scanbuy says.

68% of all scans in 2011 were of 2-D bar codes; 32% 1-D. 73% of scans in Q4 2011 were of 2-D bar codes; 27% 1-D.

The Universal Product Code, or UPC, is a one-dimensional bar code found on virtually all consumer goods. Scanning a 1-D code can lead to product information hosted on the mobile web by a scanning company, a comparison shopping engine, a retailer or other companies.

A QR code is a form of two-dimensional bar code. It appears typically as a black-and-white square with a pattern of tiny black-and-white squares within; sometimes a company may include its logo within the square. A consumer downloads a QR code scanner app, such as ScanLife, onto his smartphone. He opens the app, points the smartphone camera at the QR code, and the app reads the code and then connects him to mobile web-based content.

More than 15 million consumers have used the ScanLife app, Scanbuy reports, with three million new users in Q4 2011. The U.S. is No. 1 in scanning, followed by Spain, Canada, Denmark, France, the U.K., Germany, Mexico, Brazil and Israel.

63% of ScanLife users are male, 37% are female, Scanbuy says. 11% are under 18 years old, 22% are 18-24, 28% are 25-34, 22% are 35-44, 10% are 45-54, and 7% are 55 or older.

“Thousands of marketers are using our platform to create, manage and track their QR Code activity,” says Mike Wehrs, president and CEO of Scanbuy. “They range from local businesses up to Fortune 500 brands like Coca Cola, Home Depot and Starbucks. They use our cloud-based platform to create experiences that can launch a variety of mobile actions that can be changed whenever they want.”

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iPad Enclosures and Socket Mobile Partner to Offer Securely ...

On Wednesday 1st February 2012 21:19, In Apple

NEWARK, CA–(Marketwire -01/31/12)- Socket Mobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCKT – News), an innovative provider of mobile productivity solutions, today announced a partnership with iPad Enclosures, a company that designs, engineers and manufactures tamper-proof and theft-resistant mounts and stands for the Apple iPad. The partnership combines iPad Enclosures’ robust tablet mounts and stands with the Socket Bluetooth® [...]

NEWARK, CA–(Marketwire -01/31/12)- Socket Mobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCKT – News), an innovative provider of mobile productivity solutions, today announced a partnership with iPad Enclosures, a company that designs, engineers and manufactures tamper-proof and theft-resistant mounts and stands for the Apple iPad.

The partnership combines iPad Enclosures’ robust tablet mounts and stands with the Socket Bluetooth® Cordless Hand Scanner (CHS) 7X, a small and lightweight portable barcode reader, and the CHS 7Xi, a version of the scanner that has been certified by Apple for the iPad and other iOS devices. The combined solution makes it practical for businesses to deploy the Apple iPad in both mobile and kiosk-based applications by preventing theft and tampering of the iPad, protecting the iPad during heavy use, and adding commercial-grade rapid and robust 1D and 2D barcode scanning capabilities critical to many mobile business applications. The iPad mounts can be installed at a fixed location or on a mobile picking cart to enable freedom of movement.

“Many of our customers in retail, logistics, manufacturing, and other industries require barcode scanning for their mobile operations,” said Tyler Lyon, vice president of product development at iPad Enclosures. “After testing several Apple compatible barcode scanners, iPad Enclosures found Socket Mobile to provide the best combination of performance, ergonomics and battery life, and we exclusively recommend the Socket CHS as our barcode scanner of choice for the Apple iPad.”

“Socket Mobile is pleased to partner with iPad Enclosures to offer our Apple customers secure and robust mounting solutions for the iPad,” said Mike Gifford, executive vice president at Socket Mobile. “By reducing the risks of device deployment, iPad Enclosures enables businesses to confidently deploy the iPad with our CHS barcode scanners, while also accelerating return on investment.”

Warehouse Mobile Solutions (WMS), a sister company of iPad Enclosures, will market Socket barcode scanners as part of an innovative, extremely affordable solution for warehouse order fulfilment that enables businesses ranging from start-ups to large corporations to integrate barcode reading with iPads into their operations.

The Socket CHS 7X and 7Xi barcode scanners are available with an optional Software Development Kit (SDK). To learn more, please watch this video or visit the SDK webpage.

About iPad Enclosures
iPad Enclosures designs, engineers, and manufactures mounts and stands for the Apple iPad and Android tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab and Amazon Kindle Fire. The company is a division of ArmorActive Inc. For more information, please visit www.ipadenclosures.com.

About Warehouse Mobile Solutions
Warehouse Mobile Solutions designs, engineers, and integrates a robust barcode scanning solution for use in warehousing and distribution centers utilizing Apple iPads mounted to mobile picking carts managed by an innovative software solution to provide accurate and efficient order fulfilment. The company is a joint venture between ArmorActive, HOJ Engineering and Sales and Boxworks Software. For more information, please visit www.warehousemobilesolutions.com.

About Socket Mobile, Inc.
With more than 19 years of experience in the Automatic Identification and Data Capture market, Socket makes mobile computing and productivity work. The company offers a family of handheld computers and an extensive portfolio of AIDC peripherals designed specifically for business mobility deployments and to enable productivity increases and drive operational efficiencies in healthcare, hospitality and other vertical markets. The company also offers OEM solutions for the mobile device market. Socket is headquartered in Newark, Calif. and can be reached at 510-933-3000 or www.socketmobile.com. Follow Socket Mobile on Twitter @socketmobile and subscribe to sockettalk.socketmobile.com, the company’s official blog.

Socket and Socket Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner are trademarks or registered trademarks of Socket Mobile. Apple and iPad are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks and trade names contained herein may be those of their respective owners.

© 2012, Socket Mobile, Inc. All rights reserved.

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ipad-enclosures-socket-mobile-partner-113000250.html