Benjamin Claeys is CEO of QR TIGER, MENU TIGER, and GiftLips. He also hosts Stay QRious, a podcast about QR code best practices. We’re in a time when the business landscape constantly shifts into ...

The next generation of barcodes includes a heavy emphasis on QR codes and smartphone-use. Fifty years ago, on June 26, 1974, the first universal product code (UPC) was scanned at a Marsh Supermarket ...

What is a QR code? A QR code (short for Quick Response code) is a two-dimensional barcode that can be read by your smartphone camera. QR codes provide quick access to product information, promotions ...

To marvel at the choice and convenience of modern shopping, go visit your grocery-store mustard aisle. My local Whole Foods sells more than 20 different kinds: basic yellow mustard and Grey Poupon, ...

Google updated APIs responsible for the barcode and QR code scanning to allow them to auto-zoom when a possible barcode or QR code is detected. This feature could soon roll out to Android 13 and above ...

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

I have a friend who calls me occasionally to help him with various little things having to do with the technology at his house. This week, one of his requests was to learn more about QR codes and how ...

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, ...

Hailed as 'space-age' technology upon their launch in Britain in 1979, 'bar-coding' was praised as a wonderful invention that would speed up the weekly shop. But 50 years after being first used on ...

QR or Quick Response codes are one of the most popular ways to access information on the go. Invented in 1994 and once considered the wave of the future, part of the QR code revival that started in ...