The retail and supply chain sectors are experiencing their most significant transformation since the barcode’s introduction ...

Today, millions of businesses around the world power commerce with GS1 Barcode Standards. GS1, the not-for-profit organization behind global barcode standards, has a bold goal designed to help ...

For half a century, barcodes have provided a uniform approach to inventory management. Using parallel bars of varying widths against a plain background, barcodes assign a unique numerical value to ...

May 6, 2010 — Bar-code technology with an electronic medication administration record (eMAR) may decrease transcription and medication administration errors and drug-related adverse events, according ...

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 ...

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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – The essential and revolutionary tool often goes overlooked but after half a century of utility, the barcode is evolving with the times. The first ever product to be scanned was ...

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 ...

The House Ways and Means Committee voted unanimously to approve a bipartisan bill to accelerate processing of tax returns ...

The time it takes to fumble around with items at self-checkout, searching for barcode after barcode to scan, really adds up. Walmart thinks it has found a solution for that. The retail giant added ...