Airclic

Airclic is a web-based software and mobile information services company founded in 2000. Airclic offers fully hosted solutions including a workflow-based mobile application framework.

History

Airclic was founded in 2000. The company has gone through several shifts in strategic direction. It originally planned to use its technology to enable consumers with specially equipped mobile phones and handheld devices to scan bar codes in print ads and posters to get information and make purchases. Its proprietary bar codes were called “Scanlets.”

In its early days, the company announced ambitious partnerships with a variety of companies. At one point Motorola, Symbol Technologies, Connect Things and Airclic announced they would invest $500 million “to form a new company that will drive e-commerce growth through one-scan access to the Internet.” A partnership with R.R. Donnelly & Sons, announced in June 2001, was to incorporate Airclic technology into phone books. Another involving HometownGrocers.com (February 2002) would have let grocery store customers use personal scanners to create grocery lists and download nutritional information about food products.