Barcode scanner applications are usually quite simple, and have one purpose. Still, some of these apps offer more than others, and then there’s the design aspect to consider, as not many of them pay ...

One of the most popular third-party Android utilities — Barcode Scanner — with over 10 million Play Store installs has been outed as adware. A new report from Malwarebytes has found that the Barcode ...

While you can use your iPhone's Camera app to automatically scan QR codes by just holding the camera in front of the QR code and taping a pop-up, traditional barcodes are a different matter because ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Food barcode scanner apps such as the French-made Yuka that provide nutritional ratings based on a products' ingredients are ...

Over the last decade, smartphones have evolved in a way that they have replaced several gadgets like point and shoot cameras, music players, and the list keeps growing. Remember the time when you had ...

Your Android offers a number of helpful business tools that can effectively streamline your workday, including apps that read bar codes and feed information back to your computer. Using image ...

Two-dimensional barcodes called Quick Response codes, or QR codes for short, are used to store data that devices can read. While QR codes are popularly scanned via smartphones, what if you want to ...

This week the folks at Google have updated the iOS (and soon the Android) version of the Chrome web browser. This update uses the camera of the device it's running on to locate and scan QR codes as ...

If you've been to a Sam's Club in the past two years, you might have used Scan & Go. The store's app lets you use your phone to scan the barcode of each item you put in your cart. When you're ready to ...

Walmart Labs last week announced an augmented reality (AR) scanner that has been integrated into its iOS app to help shoppers make product comparisons, Walmart Labs stated in a blog post. The AR ...