Wedge barcode scanners and serial barcode scanners both connect to a PC to scan barcodes into the system. They do not, however, work the same way and each has advantages and disadvantages. This ...

Choosing a barcode scanner may seem acceptable at first sight. After all, isn't scanning just scanning? But offer a little ...

The invention of the UPC barcode in 1973 revolutionised retail and paved the way for unprecedented efficiency gains in supply chains. Slapping a barcode on everything—from car parts and industrial ...

I’ve always considered barcodes to be one of those invisible innovations that profoundly changed the world. What we might recognize as modern barcodes were originally designed as a labor-saving device ...

Unlike some of the fake or malicious Android apps we cover on occasion, Barcode to Sheet is a legitimate productivity app. Google Play shows that the app has been downloaded over 100,000 times and has ...

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, ...

Elyse Betters Picaro is the former Editor-in-Chief of Pocket-lint and the former Operations Manager for Valnet's Consumer Tech brands, including Pocket-lint, Android Police, and XDA. She is based in ...

The plan to give away millions of free bar-code scanners, dubbed CueCats, isn’t going exactly purringly. Radio Shack, Wired magazine, Forbes and others have given away 10 million of the gadgets and ...

British grocery chain Tesco is testing the Jade X7 Automated Scanner from Datalogic, a provider of automatic data capture (ADC) solutions, in an effort to improve checkout speed. The technology has ...