Forward-looking: For almost five decades, the humble barcode has been found on the packaging of almost every consumer item in the world. But there's a push to get rid of them within just two years, ...

What if every store had a bar-code sticker on its window so that you could pull out your iPhone, wave it in front of the bar code and get all sorts of information about that business—the telephone ...

Tesco and other retailers are trialling new system letting shoppers use QR codes Cameron Henderson is a versatile journalist currently serving as Science Correspondent for The Telegraph. Since joining ...

Yesterday Ernst-Jan Pfauth wrote a story about the use of 2D barcodes as shortcuts to mobile web sites. What a lot of people in Europe don’t realize is that 2D barcodes are already a success story, … ...

Why on earth would you want to use your iPhone’s camera to scan a two-dimensional block-and-dot code? How could this possibly have a benefit worth the trouble? Why would Apple have any interest in ...

The way we shop is going to change.

The global regulatory landscape for labelling consumer products is ever-changing, with an increasing number of industries adopting 2D codes to increase transparency and traceability and combat the ...