Mobile barcode scanning can lead to more than websites and rich experiences. I was reminded of this earlier this week when one of my sons returned from Best Buy with a new, high-performance ...

Featured in many sci-fi stories as a quicker, more efficient way to record and transfer information, barcodes are both extremely commonplace today, and still amazingly poorly understood by many.

When you're talking about data collection, two technologies come to mind: bar code scanning and RFID (radio frequency identification). The former has been a staple in data collection for more than 30 ...

Google Product Search for Mobile now has barcode scanning ability. The obvious convenience factor is that, rather than typing in the name of the product you’re looking at, you can just scan the ...

Nothing ruins a recent purchase quite like finding lower prices online as soon as you bring it home. With one of these barcode-scanning, price-crunching smartphone apps, that never has to happen again ...

While every phone can read QR codes located around you, barcode scanning is a different story altogether, and the best barcode scanner app makes it a bliss. While the process works similarly as QR ...

Barcode technology has become so widespread that many consumers take it for granted, but the technology continues to offer numerous benefits in a wide array of businesses. With only some basic ...

Scandit just released a new scanning application called Keyboard Wedge for Android, iOS and Windows. Scandit just released a new scanning application called Keyboard Wedge for Android, iOS and Windows ...

Scanning is about to get a bit more personal. Not as in giving away personal information, but rather in the form of receiving offers based on what was scanned and scanning history. It used to be that ...

RedLaser, the barcode scanning mobile app that eBay acquired from Occipital in June 2010, is nearing a significant milestone—nine million total downloads of its iPhone and Android apps. That’s up from ...

PDA? No, EDA. Mobile-solutions provider Symbol Technologies announced today the MC50 family of handheld PCs, which it dubbed "enterprise digital assistants" because of their barcode-scanning and VoIP ...