Anyone who has seen a barcode knows what they are instinctively. That irregular pattern of thick and thin lines across the back of a product or on a label is hard to mistake for anything else. With ...

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, ...

Special thanks to Marcella Michalek, a former summer associate at Foley, for her contributions to this article. When introduced nearly fifty years ago, the Universal Product Code (UPC)—the most ...

Two-dimensional (2D) barcodes are commonplace in Japan, but the technology hasn’t taken off in Canada. Roughly 90 per cent of phones in Japan have 2D barcode readers and 75 per cent of those are used ...

Are you ready to jump start a mobile marketing campaign with QR codes? This comprehensive guide will tell you everything you need to know to begin your 2D barcode marketing campaign – including code ...

Who would have thought that the lowly barcode, the stodgy grandfather of the identification technology world, would reemerge as a marketer’s dream? Well, it is happening. A new generation of barcodes ...

While Samsung's latest cellphone-related release doesn't pack quite the excitement as what T-Mobile unveiled yesterday, those obsessed with ultrathin lines packed together in the shape of a rectangle ...

Source: Data Systems International, Inc. Unibar Enterprise Labeling Software (ELS) from DSI gives you a point-and-click environment for creating label formats, automatically encoding traditional and ...

OMA hopes the standard will direct mobile phone users to websites more easily and enable interoperability across the 2D barcode market The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has developed a standard for ...

Scanbuy, a New York-based provider of mobile barcode solutions, has raised an additional $5 million to complete its latest round of funding, bringing the total raised to $26.6 million. Investors for ...