Source: readwriteweb.com, 10 December 2009
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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…
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
We celebrate! The new office. Our one-year anniversary.
October 20th, 2009 by Wolfram, No Comments »
The artisans are done, the painters did a perfect job and the new furniture was delivered on time. So luckily nothing got in the way of opening our new premises.
On Friday the 16th October 2009, it was time to celebrate the happening. With our best friends and business partners, we have the new rooms of our think tank dedicated to decency and simultaneously triggered on the first anniversary of our company. We thank the many guests, friends and business partners, and representatives of the local press for the beautiful and cheerful celebration.
A year after the foundation, we look back with joy and pride. The commitment of all the founders and employees of apnoti.com lets even in these tough times the company grow strongly, so the team of apnoti.com can look very optimistically about the future. What began in the “hobby room” at Lake Starnberg soon developed into a global online service for consumers. apnoti.com (automatic price notification) is based on an unprecedented technology to record price fluctuations – of products you love – in real time. Once registered with apnoti.com, the user can directly monitor all desired online products with one click. From now on, apnoti.com will take over laborious online research into daily price fluctuations. As soon as the user’s desired price has been reached or undercut, an alert is sent out by email. In addition, price trend models provide information about past price developments. Since August 2009 also the world’s only real-time price search engine www.smart.apnoti.com is part of our online services. Online shoppers will find the most recent and best price for their desired product just in a few seconds. Thereby smart.apnoti.com scans for each search query more than 65 million product offers from more than 10,000 affiliated online shops.
… someone at the opening ceremony raised the question if we are now going to freeze the further development of our online services. People just took notice of a loud and strong “not really – we are just starting to push our services and there never will be an ending story, for all of us every day is a new start to create something new and exciting on the web”. For example, at the end of November 2009, we will be launching the first web application for the iPhone, which soon is available for download from the iTunes Store. Thus, the new application makes the iPhone to the bar-code-scanner with integrated real-time price comparison. The user starts the iPhone application that scans the barcode from the desired product and will get all the necessary product details and on request a mobile real-time price comparison. This mobile application can read EAN, PZN, ISBN codes, and more. So you are always informed about the products of interest and know the price range in the store to better judge. In addition, you can also search products by using the iPhone application and receive the corresponding price data from a selection of several million product offerings analyzed in real time. Clicking the lowest bidder will then allow the purchase of the product. The countdown has started, so to speak, and soon we are ringing in a new era in mobile shopping – a new feature that we can hardly wait for.
Last but not least, we once again thank our guests very much for the lovely evening and the wonderful collection presents.
The apnoti.com Team
