Special thanks to Marcella Michalek, a former summer associate at Foley, for her contributions to this article. When introduced nearly fifty years ago, the Universal Product Code (UPC)—the most ...

Christoph Wagner is the CEO of Scanbot SDK, a software development company specializing in data capture software for mobile and web apps. Considering how quickly retail is changing, it is astounding ...

The pinstriped lines of barcodes past are going the way of the vinyl LP – at least for many applications. Instead of the staid black-and-white bars, you are likely to find a chaotic looking area of ...

2D barcodes enable traceability and authentication for modern commerce, but they require strong data foundations, from supplier to consumer. In association withGS1 US The world’s first barcode, ...

Beep. We’ve come a long way since June 26, 1974 when the first bar code was scanned at a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. That legendary pack of Juicy Fruit proved that even the smallest of items could ...

The initiative by the standards organization could bring traditional 1D barcodes into the 2D world of data matrix and QR-codes. After five decades of barcode use at the point of sale, the technology ...

Most of us would have done shopping in malls, shops and like-wise places and at the time of payment at cash counter you must have seen that the salesman had scanned the tag of the product you ...

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