Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver invented the barcode, patenting the technology in 1952. The first retail item ...

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 ...

Beep. You hear it every time you buy a product in a retail store. The checkout person slides your purchase over a scanner embedded in their checkout stand, or shoots it with a handheld scanner. The ...

Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel remember Norman Joseph Woodland, an inventor of the bar code. He died Sunday at the age of 91. SIEGEL: That's the sound of a bar code scanner, and Woodland was the mind ...

If you plan to run a very small store, sometimes called a "mom and pop" shop, you can probably hand-enter pricing information when ringing up a customer's order. For a larger scale operation, however, ...

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.

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Code Corporation, a global leader in barcode scanning and data capture technologies, today announced its barcode scanning technology is used with ScanID’s CheckScan ...