Android comes with a handy dandy QR code reader installed. It’s always at the ready when you need to scan a code. Being a QR code reader, you shouldn’t really expect any added functionality from it.

Now that Google is using the two-dimensional bar codes as part of its local businesses listings program, it's all the more reason for an app to help read them. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a ...

A QR code is a conduit for passing along information from the internet to a smartphone user. It takes the form of a complex arrangement of tiny black squares within a square grid; when a smartphone’s ...

Something there is that doesn’t love a QR code, but that hasn’t stopped leading QR code scanner makers Scan from serving up 25 million copies of their software. The company, which currently processes ...

Did you notice the funny looking black-and-white box on the front of the magazine? It’s called a quick response (QR) code. You probably have seen these square boxes around town on signage during ...

Android malware seems to be everywhere. Every few weeks, we hear of a new set of apps on the Google Play Store that have some kind of malware embedded in them, and this time around it seems like a ...

With a little casual hexadecimal memorization and pattern recognition skill, you can become a QR code-reading machine — no pesky computer required! The black and white boxes represent binary 1s and 0s ...