Who would have thought that the lowly barcode, the stodgy grandfather of the identification technology world, would reemerge as a marketer’s dream? Well, it is happening. A new generation of barcodes ...

Whether you’re looking to simply be able to scan QR codes you keep on seeing around or to compare prices on barcodes during your shopping, our Top 10 list of QR code and Barcode apps for Android ...

It's a simple thing we encounter many times every single week—often while in a hurry. You pull up at a parking spot, scan a ...

The zebra-striped labels are in the process of being phased out in favour of new, square-shaped QR codes in a move that could ...

Barcode technology is common around the world as it provides convenient way of reading information off a pattern of vertical lines, using a barcode reader often called a barcode gun. This works as ...

Hailed as 'space-age' technology upon their launch in Britain in 1979, 'bar-coding' was praised as a wonderful invention that would speed up the weekly shop. But 50 years after being first used on ...

I was playing around on my iPhone the other day and happened to use 3D Touch on the icon for the Google Chrome Web browser. Imagine my surprise when one of the “quick actions” that Chrome presented ...

A major change is coming to supermarket checkouts soon.

Avoid downloading third-party apps to scan QR codes.