Microsoft Corp. is getting into the business of bar codes. But these aren't your typical black-and-white stripes. The company has developed a new type of bar code that uses multiple colors and ...

A two-dimensional barcode used for mobile tagging. Microsoft Tag is a four-color variation of Microsoft's "High-Capacity Color Barcode" (HCCB), which uses eight colored triangles to provide a capacity ...

Microsoft's next-generation bar code technology, High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB), has found its first customer in the International Standard Audiovisual Number International Agency (ISAN-IA). The ...

(Editor’s Note: This article originally stated that Microsoft Tag uses QR code. It actually uses a next-generation form of barcode called High Capacity Color Barcode, or HCCB. The article has been ...