The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer—on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. Fifty is ancient for most technologies, but barcodes are still going strong.

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 ...

The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer – on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. Fifty is ancient for most technologies, but barcodes are still going ...

It was met with more criticism than even Michael Moore could have mustered. Union representatives said it would steal American jobs. Conspiracy theorists believed it was intrusively "Big Brother." ...

Vintage photo from Carillon Park display shows the NCR 255 register and barcode scanner in action. Fifty years ago at Marsh’s grocery store in Troy, a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum became the ...

Some technologies you use every day, but without thinking about them. The bar code is one of these: everything you buy has one of these black and white striped codes on it. We've all seen how they are ...

Can Excel create barcodes? Yes, and it’s as easy as downloading the correct fonts. You don’t have to purchase any of those barcode software programs that you can find online unless you need a more ...

Those ubiquitous QR codes may get all the trendy tech love these days, but the humbler Universal Product Code — or barcode, as it’s better known — has some creative life left in it yet. An iPhone app ...

The fact that Amazon is now the third largest retailer in the world, according to Forbes, means that when the online marketplace makes changes to its policies, manufacturers and brands across ...