Tomorrow marks the 35th anniversary of the first time a laser scanner was used to “read” a bar code, according to Motorola Inc. The company has detailed a few of the pertinent facts from that ...

Consumers worried about what might be lurking within their cosmetics and skin care products can turn to new applications that scan bar codes to review the items for safety. Each day women are ...

With an asset management app, you can use the bar code scanning technology to manage your business inventory. There are simple applications like Scan to Spreadsheet, which simply exports your ...

BOSTON, Jan. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — LuckyLabs, Inc. today formally announced the launch of Scantopia, the first-of-its-kind Android and iOS application that rewards users with cash for scanning ...

GoodGuide releases a free app that lets you scan an item's bar code and instantly retrieve info on that product's health, environmental, and social responsibility ratings.

The free Half.com application lets consumers and students scan bar codes directly into their iPhone to compare prices on textbooks, novels, games, DVDs and others items discounted at up to 50 percent.

Smartphone users with the right scanning application can point their device at the bar code and get additional video footage of such celebrities as Bethenny Frankel of The Real Housewives of New ...

“All retailers should be adding a bar code scanning feature to their app if they haven’t already,” said Mike Wehrs, CEO of Scanbuy, New York.

The aptly named FoodScanner uses your iPhone's camera to quickly and efficiently scan bar codes, then maintain a log of the foods you eat throughout the day.

The first bar code was used in 1974 to scan in a pack of gum. Now they're used for everything from flight check-ins to patient records and warehouse inventory. They've even been used to track bees.

The Brookfield, Wis., technology vendor Fiserv Inc. has licensed a bar-code scanning application from PayScan America Inc. and plans to offer it to retailers as part of a walk-in bill payment service ...

Some smartphones, such as the T-Mobile G1, already have an application that turns the phone’s camera into a price tag scanner. When bar codes and scanning were paired in the 1970s, the ...