Universal Product Code apps for the iPhone let shoppers find additional information and perform price comparisons on products while inside a store. They also let allow an iPhone to serve as a front ...

Vintage photo from Carillon Park display shows the NCR 255 register and barcode scanner in action. Fifty years ago at Marsh’s grocery store in Troy, a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum became the ...

A North Carolina engineer’s invention of the modern UPC barcode revolutionized retail checkout and how it works, even upside ...

It was met with more criticism than even Michael Moore could have mustered. Union representatives said it would steal American jobs. Conspiracy theorists believed it was intrusively "Big Brother." ...

I'm looking for a cheap UPC scanner that can read ISBN codes to catalog my book collection for insurance purposes. If the package includes a Mac compatible database, great. If not, I'm sure there is ...

As phones, planners, cameras and miniature computers, cell phones provide many convenient functions for businesses. One of the newest features allows you to look up information based on barcodes.

George J. Laurer, whose design of the ubiquitous vertically striped bar code sped supermarket checkout lines, parcel deliveries and assembly lines and even transformed human beings, including airline ...

Because consumers are believed to use simplifying heuristics to screen alternatives before choosing one to purchase, the authors formulate and estimate an elimination by aspects model at the ...

Something there is that doesn’t love a QR code, but that hasn’t stopped leading QR code scanner makers Scan from serving up 25 million copies of their software. The company, which currently processes ...