Subject: Color Bar Codes: More Than Just a Pretty Face

From: "Dr. Dobb's Update"<[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:05:33 -0400 (EDT)

Editor's Note

Color Bar Codes: More Than Just a Pretty Face

Okay, multi-color bar codes snuck up on me. But not the folks at Microsoft Research. That's why they're enjoying the palatial environs of a major research lab and I'm not.

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