Featured in many sci-fi stories as a quicker, more efficient way to record and transfer information, barcodes are both extremely commonplace today, and still amazingly poorly understood by many.

The UPC barcode, appearing as a sequence of vertical lines on a product label, revolutionized the retail industry 50 years ago by automating price lookup at checkout. While the technology has endured, ...

Benjamin Claeys is CEO of QR TIGER, MENU TIGER and GiftLips. He also hosts Stay QRious, a podcast about QR code best practices. Barcodes have been a staple of commerce since the first UPC barcode was ...

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 first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer—on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. Fifty is ancient for most technologies, but barcodes are still going strong.

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 ...

New CR5200 adds significant upgrades and advancements including improved reading on mobile phone screens and reading bar codes in motion SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Code Corporation, a global ...

This guide explains how to generate barcodes in Excel without any additional installations, using both the desktop and web versions of Excel. It covers formatting cells to preserve leading zeros, ...

Here is a tutorial to generate a barcode in Microsoft Excel. You might want to generate barcodes in Excel to make a product catalog or to track stocked items in Excel or for any other reason. This ...

Paul McEnroe, an award-winning engineer who spent more than two decades in leadership roles at IBM, opens up about the Universal Product Code’s development and the misconception that persists. McEnroe ...