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 ...

George Laurer had no idea his design would reach well beyond retail outlets when he created the black line and number sets known as the modern bar code while working for IBM as an engineer. Forty ...

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 ...

St. James Smokehouse of Miami, Florida, is voluntarily recalling 93 cases of Scottish Smoke Salmon in fear of Listeria contamination. The FDA announcement stated that the salmon product was sold and ...

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 ...

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." ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Knowing how to check your Nike shoes' "Universal Product Code" or UPC to find out if they were genuine or imitation is useful for verifying the authenticity of the product. Nike is ...

Universal Product Code apps for the iPhone let shoppers find additional information and perform price comparisons on products while inside a store. They also let allow an iPhone to serve as a front ...

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 ...