Prior to leading the bar code project, McEnroe worked in IBM's research lab in the '60s. He recalls the company working on what he said was actually "the first thing that would be sort of like AI ...

The barcode, an essential part of our daily lives, owes its roots to a technology that was nearly forgotten. Long before ...

Well, the non-profit outfit that runs the bar code world — GS1 US — wants to change all that. By 2027, they are confident that all 1D bar codes will be replaced with 2D bar codes similar to QR ...

In the recent bar-code scam against Wal-Mart and others, the thieves went through considerable trouble in scanning in low-priced bar codes, printing out duplicates and then surreptitiously placing ...

The first bar code was used in 1974 to scan in a pack of gum. Now they're used for everything from flight check-ins to patient records and warehouse inventory. They've even been used to track bees ...

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 thi… ...

That old grocery-store standby, the bar code on every mop, magazine, and Mars bar, celebrated its 30th birthday this year. Considering the drastic advances in computing since 1974, it should come ...

Baldino’s bar-code bargains pale in comparison with other national cases. In November, a Reno, Nev., man was arrested for stealing more than $200,000 worth of Legos in a bar-code scam.