If you plan to run a very small store, sometimes called a "mom and pop" shop, you can probably hand-enter pricing information when ringing up a customer's order. For a larger scale operation, however, ...

Providing the correct input device onto your computer for use with your business can be crucial to your company's operation. When a bar code scanner is the device used to input information into your ...

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 ...

A consumer just scans the code already on the package, and the application provides product related information. The application now serves as an assistant to consumers doing product research in-store ...

When Alan Haberman came to San Francisco to upend the global economy---which in the end he did---he wasn't seeking venture capitalists or software engineers. This was the early 1970s, when a computer ...

Earlier this month, we discovered that if you leave an airplane boarding pass lying around, someone could pick it up and run its bar code through a scanner to discover information hidden away that ...

Small enough to be hand held, the CLV 420 barcode scanner performs 400 to 1,200 scans per second and is said to be the most powerful bar code scanner of its size on the market. Encased in a rugged ...

Forty years ago Thursday, the purchase of a 67-cent (U.S.) package of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio, received what may have seemed like an undue amount of attention. With ...

Weight Watchers has introduced a bar code scanner mobile application to help grocery shoppers make more informed shopping choices and reach their weight loss goals. The new app scans the bar codes on ...