Bar code is a computer code that uses a printed strip of parallel bars of different widths attached to commercial articles, identification cards, and postal mail to identify specific products, persons, or locations. The bars are usually black on a...

Almost everyone is familiar with the striped bars found on grocery and retail store items. These are bar codes, or more specifically, the Universal Product Code (UPC). UPC codes first appeared in stores in 1973 and have since revolutionized the sales...

Bar Coding and Radio Frequency Identification A barcode is a series of parallel black bars and white spaces, both of varying widths. Bars and spaces together are called elements. Different combinations of the bars and spaces represent different...

While early technological developments in bar coding were stimulated by possible retail applications, the first actual bar codes appeared in industrial settings. From a 1932 Harvard University master's thesis to imprinted codes on the side of...

A barcode (also bar code) is a machine-readable representation of information (usually dark ink on a light background to create high and low reflectance which is converted to 1s and 0s). Originally, barcodes stored data in the widths and spacings of...

In an April 18 story about a barcode invented by a Microsoft researcher, The Associated Press misspelled his last name. He is Gavin Jancke, not Jenke.A corrected version of the story appears below.___SEATTLE (AP) _ Microsoft Corp. has finally found a taker for a colorful...

Microsoft Corp. has finally found a taker for a colorful barcode technology the company shelved two years ago because it failed to catch on.Microsoft said this week that the small square symbols, filled with red, green, yellow and black triangles, will appear on DVD and...

The collection presented by Cynthia Steffe designer Waleed Khairzada on Thursday at New York Fashion Week was called "Sonic." It could have been called sherbet.The colors were what seemed to jump off the runway. There was a mix of fuschia, green, turquoise, poppy and citrine....

“Do you have anything that’s not expired?” asked the bartender on duty Thursday night at Karma, the candle-lit, hookah-lined lounge on First Avenue, between Third and Fourth streets. She had just brandished a gun-shaped photo-I.D. scanner and fired a neon beam at the barcode on...