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

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 ...

Dynamsoft has announced the release of version 11.0 of its Barcode Reader SDK for JavaScript edition, introducing ...

Starbucks’ barcode-based payment app enables a consumer to scan an item’s 2-D bar code when making a purchase, and then the amount is deducted from the consumer’s Starbucks Card account over ...

PriceSpider.com has released a bar code scanner for Google’s Android devices to help consumers make better buying decisions while at a brick-and-mortar retail location. The application ...

In its early days, the bar code was also met by protests, from people who viewed the invention as a sign of the end days of Revelation. An urban legend spread that Laurer had hidden the number 666 ...

SIEGEL: That's the sound of a bar code scanner, and Woodland was the mind behind the lines. He co-invented the bar code. Woodland died Sunday at his home in Edgewater, New Jersey. He was 91.

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.

Bar code prefixes are not an authoritative way to determine a product’s country of origin. Also, codes 870 to 879 are already assigned to companies in the Netherlands and not Israel, according ...

Norman Joseph Woodland, the co-inventor of the bar code that labels nearly every product in stores and has boosted productivity in nearly every sector of commerce worldwide, has died. He was 91.