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, ...

Sept. 27, 2002 — There are some people who believe that they won’t see RFID labels being used to track individual items in stores in their lifetime. In fact, the first testing of such a system could ...

We haven’t seen a lot of Barcode scanners for Windows, probably because there’s no mobile version. It wouldn’t make sense for many developers to create a barcode app when it can’t be used easily in ...

The concept of the barcode — an alphabet made up of thick and thin bars — came into being in the 1950s. It took another quarter of a century for one to be printed on product packaging and scanned.

Scanner guns - the barcode readers ubiquitous to warehouses worldwide - are getting a revamp, as retailers scramble to boost productivity amid a surge in online orders. Photo: Zebra Technologies ...

You can scan a barcode with your iPhone by using a third-party app. Currently, there are no built-in apps that can read barcodes. Your iPhone can automatically scan QR codes using the built-in camera ...

Want to know if that CD you're about to buy is cheaper online? Point your iPhone at the bar code and in seconds this app will look up competing prices. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Engineers at the University of California-Los Angeles claim to have created the world's fastest bar code reader. The device, which is about one thousand times faster than ...