Warehouses, retail floors, logistics hubs and healthcare facilities all have one thing in common: speed and accuracy matter. When inventory tracking slows down or scanning errors creep in, costs rise ...

June 26, 1974 was an historical milestone that changed the shopping experience: That’s the date the first item was ever scanned with a barcode. Juicy Fruit gum at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio, became ...

The retail and supply chain sectors are experiencing their most significant transformation since the barcode’s introduction ...

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 ...

The next generation of barcodes includes a heavy emphasis on QR codes and smartphone-use. Fifty years ago, on June 26, 1974, the first universal product code (UPC) was scanned at a Marsh Supermarket ...

The House Ways and Means Committee voted unanimously to approve a bipartisan bill to accelerate processing of tax returns ...

Barcodes work based on light reflected back to scanner optics: black does not reflect light, while the white (blank) spaces do reflect light. Because characters (alphabetic, numeric, special) are ...