Source: readwriteweb.com, 10 December 2009
Archive for December, 2009
iBARCODE, a price scanner for iPhone, launches today
December 14th, 2009 by Wolfram, No Comments »
App review: iBarcode for iPhone
December 11th, 2009 by Wolfram, No Comments »
Source: econsultancy.com, 11 December 2009
German based price search engine smart.apnoti.com has just launched a new barcode scanning iPhone app, iBarcode.
The app (iTunes link) can deal with a range of barcodes (UPC8, UPC12, EAN and ISBN), which are commonly found on the packaging of consumer electricals, books, and DVDs. I’ve been seeing if it works…
The app compares prices for the US, UK, Germany and France though you need to change your preferred market in the settings section, otherwise it defaults to Germany.
You can either search by keyword, or use the iPhone camera (this works on all iPhones) to scan the barcode and return matching product results…
iBarcode reader app acts as real-time price search engine
December 11th, 2009 by Wolfram, No Comments »Quelle: mobilecommercedaily.com; 11th December 2009
iBarcode reader app acts as real-time price search engine
iBarcode in action
Apnoti.com has launched a new iPhone application called iBarcode and claims it is the first mobile price search engine with an integrated bar code scanner.
Consumers can scan product bar codes and the application searches for the best prices on the Internet. The application is $1.99 in the Apple App Store.
“The mobile market is becoming more and more important,” said Wolfram Gast, cofounder and chief marketing officer of Apnoti.com, Starnberg, Germany. “Based on our unique technology of querying prices in real-time at http://smart.apnoti.com it was the only next logical step to bring this technology on the mobile market.
“The bar code scanner technology simply facilitates and speeds up the process of finding products on your iPhone,” he said. “So in the end consumers will always be able to better judge the price in the store in order to make the right purchase decision.”
Apnoti.com is an Internet company that is based on a piece of technology that registers price fluctuations in real-time. The site features automatic email notification when the desired price is reached and a price trend model.
Smart shopping on a smartphone
The application recognizes bar codes such as UPC8, UPC12, EAN and ISBN. These bar codes are generally found on the packaging of cameras, audio and hi-fi devices, computers, furniture, books and DVDs.
Consumers can set their own individual marketplace and language settings, send SMS product searches and store and send price watchlists.
Mr. Gast said that some products may see price fluctuations of up to 70 percent at one Internet retailer.
After a consumer scans a product, the application generates product information and a real-time price comparison.
Consumers can also search for items by product name.
Clicking on a price result sends the consumer to the merchant’s site for purchase.
According to Apnoti.com, the target demographic for the application is 16-40-year-old urban consumers in Germany, the United States, France and Britain.
IBarcode is not alone in the bar code scanning marketplace.
ShopSavvy lets consumers scan the bar code of any item to determine its availability and price from both online and local retailers (see story).
Mr. Gast said that by using the iBarcode application, consumers can get great price transparency and help in making the best purchase decision.
“We believe that people are becoming more and more price conscious,” Mr. Gast said. “IBarcode will facilitate the process of comparing prices.”
New iPhone Application: iBARCODE is the world’s first mobile real-time price search engine
December 11th, 2009 by Wolfram, No Comments »
Press Release, 10 December 2009
Scan the barcode in the shop and find the best prices.
Starnberg, 10 December 2009 – Today sees the launch of the world’s first mobile price search engine with integrated barcode scanner, the new iBARCODE iPhone application – an innovative service that means you can save cash on the go. This technical innovation from apnoti.com GmbH, based in Starnberg near Munich, enables every iPhone user to scan product barcodes in a matter of seconds and find the best prices. From now on, smart, price-conscious online buyers can use iBARCODE to better evaluate shop prices and always make the right purchase decision.
“The days when we had to go from shop to shop comparing products to find the best price are now finally over! For example, if you want to check the electronics market again to see if an offer really is good value, the iPhone iBARCODE app is a simple way of doing this,” says founder and Managing Director Gerold Herrmann. “Behind the unique and complex technology is a simple yet impressive idea. In order to scan a barcode, all you have to do is hold the iPhone over the relevant code. The integrated camera photographs it fully automatically and finds the best offers on the Internet within a matter of seconds. These are located by the recently launched real-time price search engine smart.apnoti.com, which now already comprises more than 65 million product offerings from more than 10,000 online shops worldwide,” says Head of Marketing Wolfram Gast.
The mobile application recognises a broad range of barcodes (UPC8, UPC12, EAN and ISBN), which can be found on the packaging of cameras, audio and hi-fi devices, computers, furniture, books, DVDs and medicines for example. Practical operating elements complete this handy offering, such as individual marketplace and language settings, fast entry of product search requests as text and storing and sending of watchlists.
The iPhone iBARCODE app is available for download at the iTunes App Store under the Finance category and can be found by searching the term ‘iBARCODE’. Furthermore, you can find more information about the mobile application directly on iTunes App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=340184122&mt=8
