Conventional bar code readers use either a laser beam for scanning or have a digital camera take a picture which is then recognized by the computer. Both methods limit the image-acquisition speed ...

For a larger scale operation, however, you may need a bar code scanner and accompanying computer system. Before you purchase your bar code scanner, it's helpful to first learn how such a system is ...

The Datalogic QuickScan QW2500 series is a 2D bar code scanner designed for operations like inventory management, point-of-sale operations and document digitisation. Issued by DCI Scanning ...

Wedge barcode scanners and serial barcode scanners both connect to a PC to scan barcodes into the system. They do not, however, work the same way and each has advantages and disadvantages.

Reader's advisory ... nurses often entered the seven-digit bar code number manually rather than rescanning it. Nurses also felt that the computer system's demands forced them to focus on pill ...

You want to make sure that the information you entered is going to appear correctly when scanned. Just scan it from your computer screen with a bar code reader app.

It has been said that the idea for the bar code scanner was born on the day of ... before moving on to become president of Trilogy, a computer systems company in Silicon Valley, where he developed ...

Sony Ericsson has tapped NeoMedia Technologies Inc., a mobile bar code scanning service provider ... these countries as a starting point, but the reader will be preloaded globally.

Now that Google is using the two-dimensional bar codes as part of its local businesses listings program, it's all the more reason for an app to help read them. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a ...