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, ...

Just over a year later, on June 26, 1974, a packet of Wrigley’s chewing gum sold at a supermarket in Ohio became the first ...

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 rectangles of a two-dimensional (2D) barcode are Mondrian-esque. The black-and-white codes represent data in grid form, which only a computer can decipher. They represent a hyperlink or piece of ...

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 ...

In fact, according to Uniqode ’s State of QR Codes 2026 report, most consumers now interact with QR Codes regularly, with a ...