NeoMedia Technologies, Inc (NEOM)

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"NeoMedia also announced that it planned to make qode code-agnostic - i.e. read most if not all types of (one-dimensional) barcodes and (two-dimensional) smartcodes, including QR, the “Quick Response” style of smartcode that is available open-source and has become a marketplace phenomenon in Japan where more than 20 million mobile phones already carry code-scanning software, as well as a number of other proprietary symbologies."

http://www.neom.com/press_releases/2006/20060628.jsp