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It seems only yes­ter­day that I wrote my last post on QR Codes, but just checked and it was last Novem­ber and my god has a lot hap­pened! Maybe, just maybe, they’re catch­ing on.

Despite encour­ag­ing signs in 2010, there were many who just believed that QR Codes, or mobile bar codes, were purely an interim tech­nol­ogy wait­ing for the newer, funkier tech­nolo­gies such as NFC and aug­mented real­ity to get their act together and take over. But, as is the way, this hasn’t hap­pened yet. Sure, things have pro­gressed, but they still do not yet offer com­pelling rea­sons for mobile manufacturers/networks to make the invest­ment to uni­ver­sally include them. This is due to, amongst other things, some inter­op­er­abil­ity issues between Wik­i­tude and Layar tech­nol­ogy, the debate over user inter­faces and the pros and cons of real-time ver­sus cached data.

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For those lucky enough to escape the grey monot­ony of Lon­don last week (I was not so lucky) and escape to Barcelona for the Mobile World Con­gress, they were in for a rare treat. In recent years the world’s largest mobile event has descended into a rather dreary almost bor­ing litany of the same ol’ same ol’. This year appears to have been any­thing but…

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Ever since we held the last (and first) Euro­pean Demand Gen­er­a­tion Sum­mit at Alti­tude last Novem­ber, we’ve had a thirst to do it all over again.

As part of the feed­back process on the last event, we asked what peo­ple thought of the day, the con­tent and speak­ers. We also asked what changes they’d like to see in the for­mat of the event in the future and what top­ics they’d like to see cov­ered.

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I con­fess. Mine is one of the ani­mated voices debat­ing the future of Apple in the mobile phone indus­try. But I’m the heretic deny­ing that we’re wit­ness­ing the birth of the Mobile Mes­siah. I have much love for Apple (even if sit typ­ing this on a Sony Vaio). They have a knack of dis­rupt­ing mar­kets through intel­li­gent and beau­ti­ful design. And the desir­abil­ity of their brand is sec­ond to none. So they should be well placed to thrive in the mobile phone busi­ness. Right?

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Pipex has announced its sec­ond com­mer­cial trial of WiMAX in the UK. This is great news. Well it is if you live in War­wick. Oh and work for War­wick Coun­cil. You’ll be able to get an 8meg con­nec­tion wher­ever you roam (within War­wick that is). They also plan to roll out the trial to those out­side the coun­cil as well as to that dig­i­tal hotbed, Leam­ing­ton Spa.

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Sin­ga­pore will have wall-to-wall WiFi by the end of the year. No more look­ing for a friendly Star­bucks or try­ing to leech off an unpro­tected wire­less router, sim­ply boot and go (well that’s the plan). This ini­tia­tive is part of a wider effort (the Intel­li­gent Nation pro­gramme) which extends into many gov­ern­ment ser­vices and which is look­ing to line Sin­ga­pore up with the world’s tech elite nations.

Now, all they need is a sub­scrip­tion music ser­vice and some WiFi-enabled play­ers.

Source: news.com