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Clawmann, I searched the board for "Maxicode" and found only one relevant post:

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?Message_id=9859780&txt2find=maxicode

Neomedia's role with Maxicode relates back to its former Consulting and Integration Services Business Unit, which has now been closed. See this post:

http://biz.yahoo.com/e/060515/neom.ob10-q.html

Consulting & Integration Services Business Unit

As part of the acceleration of global expansion in PaperClick and Paint, as well as the creation of the NeoMedia Telecom Services (NTS) business unit through the BSD acquisition, NeoMedia also decided in February 2006 to wind down its legacy NeoMedia Consulting & Integration Services (NCIS) business unit. The NCIS unit consisted of client-server equipment and related software resales. The resale market has been commoditized over the past several years, and NeoMedia believes its resources are better spent on the development and commercialization of its NMM, NMPR and NTS business units. Certain of the proprietary products associated with the NCIS business, such as PDF-417 and Maxicode print encoder software and WISP migration tools, will be retained by NeoMedia and consolidated with the NMM unit. NeoMedia does not intend to pursue additional resales of hardware and software or integration services not directly related to its other business units.

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I then did a google search, and found that Maxicode was created by the United Parcel Service (UPS).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxiCode

MaxiCode is a public domain, machine readable symbol system originally created and used by United Parcel Service. Suitable for tracking and managing the shipment of packages, it resembles a barcode, but uses dots arranged in a hexagonal grid instead of bars.

A MaxiCode symbol (internally called "Bird's Eye" or "Target") appears as a 1 inch square, with a bullseye in the middle, surrounded by a pattern of hexagonal dots. It can store about 93 characters of information, and up to 8 MaxiCode symbols can be chained together to convey more data. The centered symmetrical bullseye is useful in automatic symbol location regardless of orientation, and it allows MaxiCode symbols to be scanned even on a package traveling rapidly.

Maxicode symbology was created by UPS in 1992.

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