Next year will mark 50 years since the first product barcode was scanned. The simple system of lines, spaces, and numbers has helped track inventory and scan physical product prices. But what if it ...
By 2027, retailers everywhere will scan 2D barcodes at checkout. It's time for brands to decide how they will update ...
The 8.5 release of Impact software reads three times more barcodes than the previous version. Impact can read 17 different standard barcode types, and the decoded information can also be combined with ...
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 ...
This post originally appeared on Kao Collins' The Ink Tank. The invention of the barcode for marking and coding was ahead of its time in 1952 when it was granted a patent. Norman Joseph Woodland and ...
Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for ...
Benjamin Claeys is CEO of QR TIGER, MENU TIGER, and GiftLips. He also hosts Stay QRious, a podcast about QR code best practices. We’re in a time when the business landscape constantly shifts into ...
The government has announced a trial of digital labelling on some imported foods, meaning they will have a QR code.
An open standard for airline boarding passes that could save the world's airlines millions of dollars is being introduced by ARINC (Stand D246). The company, part of the State of Maryland presence, ...
Even the smallest operational detail can make or break a product’s success, and few details are as deceptively simple yet powerful as a barcode. For businesses that manufacture, package, or sell ...
OMA hopes the standard will direct mobile phone users to websites more easily and enable interoperability across the 2D barcode market The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has developed a standard for ...