Bar code technology is about to get a face-lift, and IBM aims to be the surgeon of choice. IBM on Monday announced services to help retailers and makers of packaged goods prepare for new bar code ...

Adobe Systems is set to expand its electronic forms with new capabilities for adding bar codes to forms based on the company's portable document format. The technology, announced Monday, will allow ...

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 ...

As readers of this publication know, mobile is not just another customer communications medium – it is rapidly evolving into an effective marketing and sales channel, enabling consumers to get ...

TydenBrammall has implemented an electronic bar code verification system into its Alum-A-Loc Seal and E-Z Loc Seal production lines. The system, which also incorporates a new, high-resolution printer, ...

Ronald Schneider, B.S.Pharm., M.H.A.; Jonathan Bagby, R.N., M.B.A., M.S.N.; Russ Carlson, R.N., B.S.N., M.H.A. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65(23):2216-2219. In 1994 ...

April 1, 2002 – I often hear skeptics say that RFID will never take off because tags will never be as cheap as a bar code. Why? Because you can print a bar code right on the box or wrapping of an item ...

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

What do you get if you cross a mobile phone camera with a marketing campaign? An unstoppable direct response mechanism, of course. Mobile devices are an essential part of everyday life. British ...

The Food and Drug Administration, after a year of deliberation (see story), issued a final ruling yesterday that requires pharmaceutical companies to apply bar codes to thousands of prescription and ...

The basic idea behind the bar code came from research by N. Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver in the late 1940s. In the early 1960s, David J. Collins pioneered a way to scan bar codes with flashes of ...