Global standards organization GS1 has a working group developing a specification that would enable a single Web identity for every product label, whether a 2D bar code, a QR code, a Near Field ...

Representative image/iStock Among the many changes brought about by the pandemic is the widespread use of QR codes, graphical representations of digital data that can be printed and later scanned by a ...

New Delhi: The barcode that revolutionised supermarket checkout and facilitated retail globalisation is turning 50. Over the years, the stripes shown below on packages of products supermarkets, ...

S Swaminathan, CEO, GS1 India, in an exclusive interaction with ETHealthworld elucidates on the recent mandate for drug manufacturers to include barcodes with QR codes on their packaging, its benefits ...

Bottles of wine are displayed with a QR code to combat counterfeiting at the 2013 Vinexpo trade show. NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP They trigger more than ten billion "beeps" per day worldwide at store ...

For the longest time we’ve been using UPC bar codes to store strings of information in a compact space on both product labels and people in dystopian sci-fi movies. But as our needs grew and became ...

Euromonitor noted 37% of consumers report reading nutrition labels closely globally. Whilst 45% of businesses plan to invest ...

Quick Response (QR codes) we’re originally developed in Japan a few years ago and have been used effectively there ever since. Unlike a standard bar code, QR codes are two-dimensional bar codes that ...

Footwear brand Converse is partnering with retailer Journeys on an in-store mobile bar code campaign that lets users shop the company’s famous line of Chuck Taylor shoes. Converse has placed the QR ...

New Delhi: In order to weed our spurious drugs and medicines, India’s apex drug regulator has called for strict implementation of bar codes or QR codes on top 300 medicine brands such as Allegra, ...