It sounds like something straight out of a futuristic film: house hunters, driving past a for-sale sign, stop and point their cell phone at the sign. With a click, their cell phone screen displays the ...

“BrandDigital: Simple Ways Top Brands Succeed in the Digital World,” by branding expert Allen Adamson, is the first book to be sold in North America that includes an EZcode—a 2D bar code—to sell the ...

Bar code technology is about to get a face-lift, and IBM aims to be the surgeon of choice. IBM on Monday announced services to help retailers and makers of packaged goods prepare for new bar code ...

Software maker is licensing a new format that uses colorful triangles, rather than black and white lines, to pack more data into less space. Images: Microsoft's multicolor bar code During her years at ...

They look like pixelated puzzles, or maybe a printing error. But the indecipherable ink squares hold the promise of a new form of mobile information delivery that ...

Adobe Systems is set to expand its electronic forms with new capabilities for adding bar codes to forms based on the company's portable document format. The technology, announced Monday, will allow ...

Tomorrow marks the 35th anniversary of the first time a laser scanner was used to “read” a bar code, according to Motorola Inc. The company has a few of the pertinent facts from that day, including ...

When Georgia began using computer-printed paper ballots in 2020, they raised a new issue: Votes are scanned from bar codes that are unreadable by the human eye. The inability to verify that the text ...

The Food and Drug Administration is phasing in rules that will require bar codes on hospital medication packets to guard against errors that cause an estimated 7,000 deaths annually. Inside hospital ...