Amazon released its Android shopping app with a little dose of that augmented reality goodness we’ve been talking about: Real-world barcode and CD/DVD cover recognition. It’s a question of clicking ...

Amazon Flow, the barcode scanning/augmented reality app from Amazon subsidiary A9.com, has arrived on Android today, following its November 2011 iOS debut. To refresh your memory, the app lets ...

Amazon's logistics operation is coldly efficient, a vital quality when the company ships so many parcels on a daily basis. The venerable barcode might seem like an efficient way to track inventory, ...

To improve customer delivery, Amazon needs to use robots. That has meant introducing a camera system and doing away with barcodes. It has been over 50 years since the invention of the barcode. It is ...

Every month Amazon adds new skills to its Alexa smart speakers. This month the most notable is the addition of barcode scanning via Amazon’s Echo Show devices, thanks to the built-in camera. Prime ...

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Amazon’s Mobile app gives you a few ways to look up products: you can search by entering keywords, you can browse through recommendations, or you can even take a picture of an item and Amazon will try ...