Today, the barcode is used by millions of people everywhere, every day. However, its creation required decades of collaboration with grocery industry leaders to establish its design, use, and ...

The Digimarc mobile application development kit features several proprietary optimizations that vastly improve scanning of the most common retail barcodes with mobile devices, which consumers often ...

The next generation of barcodes includes a heavy emphasis on QR codes and smartphone-use. Fifty years ago, on June 26, 1974, the first universal product code (UPC) was scanned at a Marsh Supermarket ...

Identity documents have been around since 1414 but were little used until the early 20th century. Electronic code reading had its embryonic beginnings, like barcodes, in 1949, though barcodes were ...

(NewsUSA) - Whether you're buying online or shopping in a store, there are many modern shopping conveniences available today that can be traced back to the debut of a seemingly simple technology - the ...