The soaring popularity of smartphone apps that scan barcodes on food products and cosmetics to provide health scores are ...

Beep. We’ve come a long way since June 26, 1974 when the first bar code was scanned at a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. That legendary pack of Juicy Fruit proved that even the smallest of items ...

Court records show 39-year-old Ian Wenger pleaded guilty to third-degree retail fraud and has been sentenced to 15 days in jail.

She noticed the bar code that a rental car company used to track vehicles and surmised that similarly applied bar-code scanning technology could enhance patient safety by reducing medication ...

Internal data collection suggested that approximately 60% of medications were without a bar code. [2] Therefore, we projected that 3 million medication doses would require repackaging or the ...

This rectangular-shaped QR code is designed to be used on narrow spaces, with an aspect ratio similar to that of a traditional 1D bar code. There are quite a few variations of rMQR, but the ...

Weight Watchers has introduced a bar code scanner mobile application to help grocery shoppers make more informed shopping choices and reach their weight loss goals. The new app scans the bar codes ...

Less than 14 percent of smartphone users in U.S. households with broadband used a bar code-based payment application, such as a Starbucks’ app, in the first quarter of 2013, according to Parks ...

Starbucks Coffee Co. has launched a trial of a 2D bar code payment system for customers to pay via their iPhone or iPod touch. The coffee giant launched two new applications. Starbucks Card Mobile has ...