A barcode has long been one of the simplest features on a package. It helps products move through warehouses, stores and checkout tills every day. Yet that familiar barcode is now changing. Across the ...

Christoph Wagner is the CEO of Scanbot SDK, a software development company specializing in data capture software for mobile and web apps. Considering how quickly retail is changing, it is astounding ...

Unlike “linear imagers” or scanners, digital or area imagers can read and process data from 1D and 2D bar codes. A diffuse light source boosts image-capture reliability. Bar codes, those ubiquitous ...

On June 26, 1974, the universal product code barcode was scanned for the first time at Troy’s Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. That kicked off a 50-year run of the iconic barcode—that small square of ...

Special thanks to Marcella Michalek, a former summer associate at Foley, for her contributions to this article. When introduced nearly fifty years ago, the Universal Product Code (UPC)—the most ...

PARIS, February 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile Tag, leader in 2D and 1D barcode marketing solutions has extended its range of services, now offering a universal platform which integrates NFC TAG ...