Northern Trust Co. is testing an enhancement to its positive pay service for corporate checks: an encrypted bar code containing payment information that can be used to deter fraud. There are other ...

The Veterans Health Administration has tapped CareFusion to provide a new suite of bar code medication software to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ 171 medical centers and 500 outpatient clinics.

Every purchase evokes his design of the rectangular Universal Product Code. But although it became ubiquitous, he received no royalties. By Sam Roberts George J. Laurer, whose design of the vertically ...

N. Joseph Woodland, the co-inventor of the bar code that labels nearly every product in stores and has boosted productivity in nearly every sector of commerce worldwide, died Dec. 9 in Edgewater, N.J.

When you're talking about data collection, two technologies come to mind: bar code scanning and RFID (radio frequency identification). The former has been a staple in data collection for more than 30 ...

The demise of Shelfie, a tool that allowed customers to link their print books to e-books, got me thinking about bar codes. Obviously, one method of linking print to its digital metadata is through ...