Your Android offers a number of helpful business tools that can effectively streamline your workday, including apps that read bar codes and feed information back to your computer. Using image ...

The new and improved version of ShopSavvy – already one of the most downloaded bar-code-scanning applications for the iPhone – features a number of enhancements based on feedback from iPhone users.

A recent poll by Scanbuy on Twitter and Facebook proves the influence that mobile bar codes are having for retail outlets trying to improve the customer shopping experience. Consumers are using mobile ...

(NYSE: MSI) today unveiled the new disinfectant-ready wireless handheld scanner which provides nurses and lab technicians with the ability to scan both 1D and 2D bar codes at the patient bedside to ...

Bar code scanning is an easy way to track your business inventory or even keep tabs on office supplies. Many bar codes contain a lot number. A lot number is an ID that shows which batch or lot a ...

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. Elizabeth Armstrong Moore ...

“Scantopia is an addictive, fun mash-up of a savings app and a social-mobile game,” said LuckyLabs VP of Business Development and Strategy, Will Gardenswartz. “Scantopia is like a mini-coupon on every ...

Beginning with a 10-pack package of Wrigley's chewing gum that now resides at the Smithsonian, supermarkets have been scanning bar-coded packaged goods for more than 34 years. During this time, ...

The implementation of point-of-care BCMA required the ongoing collaboration of the pharmacy, nursing, and informatics departments. The informatics department was essential in the planning and ...

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 a few of the pertinent facts from that day, including ...

Bar codes turn 40 this week, but they aren’t over the hill yet. It was a Thursday morning when the first unique sticker of white and black lines facilitated the purchase of a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit ...

Bar codes have made it to the bedside at Tri-City Medical Center, where most nurses are now using hand-held scanners to make sure each patient gets the correct medication at the proper time and dose.