ScanLife.com - Mobile Bar Coding Solution

Bar codes are already a part of our ever day life and it would appear that they are going to become an increasingly important part of it in the near future. ScanLife, a company that provides mobile barcoding solutions, is hedging its bets on bar codes becoming adopted on a large scale, and it is developing technologies accordingly. The ScanLife solution allows companies and advertisers to create there very own barcodes that can be used to effortlessly point someone to a URL, for coupons, show times or reminders. Once they’ve created the barcode, it can be inserted into any type of advertising like flyers, posters, magazines, public signs etcetera. The solution is now available for the iPhone making it simple for people to take a snapshot of these barcodes, and then be taken automatically to the URL of that barcode.

“ScanLife brings your phone to life. Get reminders when concert tickets go on sale. See movie trailers and showtimes. Get the bus schedule on the fly. Download and play a game from a TV show.”

Think of Barcodes as a type of mobile URL that can be used by anyone to quickly find out more about a service, check the address of a company, see when the next bus is coming etcetera. ScanLife has inserted itself in an exciting space and it should become a successful provider of barcode solutions.

Will the fact that ScanLife needs to be downloaded dissuade people from adopting it? Do they have enough financial backing to hold out until the average consumer has a sophisticated enough phone to make this a truly attractive solution?