It sounds like something straight out of a futuristic film: house hunters, driving past a for-sale sign, stop and point their cell phone at the sign. With a click, their cell phone screen displays the ...

April 1, 2002 – I often hear skeptics say that RFID will never take off because tags will never be as cheap as a bar code. Why? Because you can print a bar code right on the box or wrapping of an item ...

Software maker is licensing a new format that uses colorful triangles, rather than black and white lines, to pack more data into less space. Images: Microsoft's multicolor bar code During her years at ...

As readers of this publication know, mobile is not just another customer communications medium – it is rapidly evolving into an effective marketing and sales channel, enabling consumers to get ...

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Bar codes are traded all over the world among companies and the codes are not a conclusive way to determine a product’s country of origin. Bar code prefixes are assigned based on the location of the ...

Tomorrow marks the 35th anniversary of the first time a laser scanner was used to “read” a bar code, according to Motorola Inc. The company has detailed a few of the pertinent facts from that day, ...