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, ...

Your Android phone is capable of downloading applications, including QR code scanners, which are used to scan bar-code type images that contain many pixelated squares ...

How iPhone turns the Camera app into a code reader On iPhone, the built in Camera app is the primary gateway to this hidden scanner. When you open Camera on your iPhone and point it at a QR code, the ...

This week the folks at Google have updated the iOS (and soon the Android) version of the Chrome web browser. This update uses the camera of the device it's running on to locate and scan QR codes as ...

A somewhat quirky aspect of iOS 14 is that there are some hidden apps lurking beneath the surface. They are impossible to access, however, unless you know where to look. One representative example is ...

Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews team since 2000. He covers the gamut of gadgets and is a notable reviewer of mobile accessories and portable audio products, ...

Two-dimensional barcodes called Quick Response codes, or QR codes for short, are used to store data that devices can read. While QR codes are popularly scanned via smartphones, what if you want to ...

The dedicated Code Scanner app is ready when you need it. We want to help you master Control Center, one of the most powerful and underutilized features on Apple devices. Cult of Mac’s Control Center ...