QR codes are a type of barcode, or scannable pattern, that contain various forms of data, like website links, account ...

Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel remember Norman Joseph Woodland, an inventor of the bar code. He died Sunday at the age of 91. SIEGEL: That's the sound of a bar code scanner, and Woodland was the mind ...

India celebrates National Post Day on October 10. If you have ever sent a document or merchandise through India Post, you may ...

Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver patented the bar code 60 years ago 1st product sold using UPC scan? 67-cent pack of Wrigley's gum The idea for thick and thin bars came to Woodland on the ...

Employees at Walmart said Haven R. Lattimer-Huntington scanned a fake bar code on grocery items in the self-checkout area.

We never really thought about it before, but a traditional barcode or QR code is pretty two dimensional. A 3D barcode sounds like marketing hype but the JAB (Just Another Barcode) system adds a third ...

When you're talking about data collection, two technologies come to mind: bar code scanning and RFID (radio frequency identification). The former has been a staple in data collection for more than 30 ...

The illustration above was sent to me as the front of a card from Motorola, Inc. about the 35th anniversary of the first bar-code scanning ever done. It was on a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit at a ...

Weight Watchers has introduced a bar code scanner mobile application to help grocery shoppers make more informed shopping choices and reach their weight loss goals. The new app scans the bar codes on ...

If you plan to run a very small store, sometimes called a "mom and pop" shop, you can probably hand-enter pricing information when ringing up a customer's order. For a larger scale operation, however, ...