MSKYNET BLOG

With the recent launch of SPARQ Coder for Salesforce.com applications, we have been receiving a lot of requests to enable BlackBerry support for QR Codes with address book entries. To our disappointment, it appears that BlackBerry Messenger 5.0 and all the QR Code scanners available for that platform do not support any Address Book Contacts such as the MeCARD format. To work around this problem we have come up with a fairly novel solution and we are happy to announce that our QR Code Generator API (QRGen) now supports vCards that work with BlackBerry.  Using a combination of our database compression and dynamic vCard generator we not only fully support vCards for BlackBerry but we also simplify the QR Code data payload needed which is much less compared to a traditional MeCARD.  

BlackBerry VCard Sample

Links mentioned above
QR Code Generator API (QRGen)
SPARQ Coder – Salesforce AppExchange

RIM recently launch its new BlackBerry Messenger 5.0 which has a built-in native QR Code scanner.  This scanner scans in video mode and also has the ability to render and scan BlackBerry PIN contact information.  We have received many requests to enable BlackBerry support so that users can create a BlackBerry PIN Contact barcode which they can embed in their business cards, website, or any other medium.  We are now launching our beta test for QRGen BlackBerry support and we have enhanced our QR Code generator Maestro (MeCARD) to enable BlackBerry PIN support as well.

Links mentioned above
BlackBerry Messenger 5.0 (Download)
QRGen API
Maestro (MeCARD)