It was the peak of the Internet bubble, and a former infomercial producer named J. Jovan Philyaw had the gadget that seemed to answer the prayers of old-line businesses looking for an easy way to get ...

As advertising sales go to the dogs, an offbeat marketing scheme aimed at bridging print and online media with CueCat digital scanners is getting bitten. In the latest sign of trouble for the company, ...

The dot-com bubble was inflated by companies built to please consumers, but lacking any real plan to turn a profit. The spectacular failure of a device called the CueCat, however, proves how badly ...

WE ARE, AS THE FOLKS at Digital Convergence must have expected, exactly the right kind of people to appreciate the :CueCat: We are lazy, and we like presents. OK, so the much-heralded consumer ...

Pinterest is aiming for the big time. As Forbes's Jeff Bercovici explains in this fascinating cover story, the site that has turned online "pinning" into a global craze now intends to make billions by ...

Remember the CueCat, the digital media punchline to end all digital media punchlines? The device was introduced by the Dallas Morning News way back in the dizzying late-1990s when a feverish hysteria ...

Gather 'round, children. Storytime today takes us on a wild and baffling trip back to the '90s, filled with revelations about a local inventor, media personality and treasure hunter named Jovan, a.k.a ...

HERE’S MY BIGGEST GRIPE about technology: Unnecessary devices that greedy corporations try and pass off on the public as cutting edge convenience. So it is with a silly little thing called Cue Cat, a ...

The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on desktop, mobile, and our app for subscribers only. To enjoy the e-Newspaper ...

[Damcave] decided to try out some bar code reader projects. He got his hands on a CueCat years ago. The problem is that it outputs encrypted character sets instead of a clear text string. To get ...

I had seen mention of this odd plan by Google to show little barcodes in advertisements that were readable by cellphones and PCs. I was underwhelmed so I didn’t talk about it here but Joel Spolsky ...

The adage that cats have nine lives applies to electronic cats, too. The ill-fated CueCat bar-code reader has been reincarnated as a cell-phone application that recognizes corporate logos. In 2000, ...