One of the earliest forms of the bar code will celebrate its 40th anniversary Thursday, June 26. On that date in 1974, a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit Gum was scanned for its Universal Product Code (UPC) at ...

At his father's grocery store in Red Cloud, Gerry Peirce marked every item by hand. Today, as scanning director at Russ's IGA at 66th and O streets, Peirce has exchanged his ink stamper and pricing ...

Artificial intelligence seems to be everywhere these days, with more companies integrating the technology into their systems and developers across the globe finding new ways to use it, for both good ...

George J. Laurer, whose design of the ubiquitous vertically striped bar code sped supermarket checkout lines, parcel deliveries and assembly lines and even transformed human beings, including airline ...

A consumer just scans the code already on the package, and the application provides product related information. The application now serves as an assistant to consumers doing product research in-store ...

THAT THE ORDINANCE INFRINGES ON HER CLIENTS RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH AND TAKING IT DOWN WOULD HURT HIM FINANCIALLY. BRIANA: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE BARCODE ON NEARLY EVERY PRODUCT SOLD WORLDWIDE HAS DIED ...

For the longest time we’ve been using UPC bar codes to store strings of information in a compact space on both product labels and people in dystopian sci-fi movies. But as our needs grew and became ...

WENDELL, N.C. — George J. Laurer, whose invention of the Universal Product Code at IBM transformed retail and other industries around the world, has died. He was 94. A funeral was held on Monday for ...

Software maker is licensing a new format that uses colorful triangles, rather than black and white lines, to pack more data into less space. Images: Microsoft's multicolor bar code During her years at ...

We get lots and lots of press releases in our inbox here at Business Casual Central. And frankly, a lot of them are junk. They come from this organization or that PR person based somewhere on a coast ...

The German Bar Association (DAV) has issued an opinion (pdf) saying that a constitutional complaint against the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is entirely unfounded. Filed last year, the complaint has put ...