One of the earliest forms of the bar code will celebrate its 40th anniversary Thursday, June 26. On that date in 1974, a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit Gum was scanned for its Universal Product Code (UPC) at ...

Since the 1970s, bar codes have provided a reliable, inexpensive form of machine-readable identification. Although bar coding has numerous benefits, its primary function is to error-proof the ...

When you're talking about data collection, two technologies come to mind: bar code scanning and RFID (radio frequency identification). The former has been a staple in data collection for more than 30 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Norman Woodland, co-inventor of the bar code, the inventory tracking tool that transformed global commerce in the 1970s and saved shoppers countless hours on the supermarket ...

Amazon Mobile for iPhone now has a bar code scanner that lets you see, scan, and buy products on the spot. Jessica Dolcourt VP, Content Operations and Commerce, CNET Group and CNET Labs Jessica is a ...

The opening of a long-awaited Jersey City bar has been marred by a dress code sign that some have interpreted as racist. The sign at The Ashford, which referred to its dress code as “upscale business ...

Fear not. Science, corporate America, and government bureaucrats are teaming up to keep better tabs on your children by digitizing them better. In a creepy new video from Microsoft and Los Angeles’s ...

When the Lake County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) in northern Illinois replaced its manual evidence handling procedures with the BEAST (Bar Coded Evidence Analysis Statistics and Tracking) automated ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A controversial new dress code at a midtown Sacramento bar is in the spotlight. Some say the new rules are discriminatory, especially against African-Americans. Bar West on J ...

Ronald Schneider, B.S.Pharm., M.H.A.; Jonathan Bagby, R.N., M.B.A., M.S.N.; Russ Carlson, R.N., B.S.N., M.H.A. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65(23):2216-2219. In 1994 ...

A group of academics and business executives is planning to introduce next month a next-generation bar code system, which could someday replace with a microchip the series of black vertical lines ...