From everyone at Codegate may we wish you and yours a healthy, happy and peaceful New Year. If the pundits are to be believed 2012 will see the full effect of government cut backs, tax increases and higher commodity prices taking money away from the pockets of the consumer. At least inflation is predicted to [...]

You’d have to be living on another planet to miss the launch of Apple’s latest iPhone the 4S, but have you spotted ‘Siri’ the personal assistant and voice recognition application? This is, in my opinion, the most exciting development to hit computing since the microchip!

Near Field Communications (NFC) is a form of RFID that I’ve referenced several times in the past and is a continued ‘watch’ on my list of technologies of the future. Last week saw NFC get a significant boost through the formation of a joint venture between Everything Everywhere (which runs T-Mobile and Orange cellular networks [...]

As those of you that see our press releases may know, Codegate has achieved notable success in the construction Plant Hire industry. We have enabled companies to prove they’re meeting their SLAs with their contract customers, by providing transparency in everyday transactions. To research the industry demand for such systems we took a stand E15 [...]

We’re just starting a major rollout of some 1,400 hand-held mobile devices for a client here at Codegate and our experience with larger installations means we know where the difficulties are likely to arise. For the purpose of this post, it isn’t important to know which manufacturer or which device is involved, what is important [...]

As you may know, Codegate occupies a beautifully converted Granary in rural Oxfordshire which dates back just over two hundred years, although in those days it was thatched and stood some eighteen inches lower than it does today.  It is not the usual pristine conversion which so often loses all semblance of the original rustic [...]

The humble barcode is approaching its 40th birthday, but are newer technologies about to steal its market, or is it still an unbeatable machine readable solution for data capture?