Resembling a QR code, 2D bar codes provide the scanner — from consumer to retailer — with an abundant amount of data including product information, inventory management, recipes, traceability and more ...

Tomorrow marks the 35th anniversary of the first time a laser scanner was used to “read” a bar code, according to Motorola Inc. The company has a few of the pertinent facts from that day, including ...

Target’s free iPhone app now offers a barcode-scanning feature.Target BYOBS. That stands for “bring your own bar code scanner,” and more and more shoppers like the concept–so much so that Target has ...

Just in time for the crazed holiday shopping season, San Francisco-based GoodGuide releases the first iPhone app that lets you scan bar codes for what the guide calls “impartial” health, environmental ...

Nonprofit information standards organization GS1 US is celebrating the first bar code scan’s “Scanniversary” on June 26, 1974. GS1 US, the administrator of the UPC bar codes, says the first bar code ...

Few objects in the world are more immediately recognizable than the bar code. After all, bar codes are all around us. They’re on the books we buy and the packages that land on our doorsteps. More than ...

RFID is not necessarily “better” than bar codes. The two are different technologies and have different applications, which sometimes overlap. The big difference between the two is bar codes are ...