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Someone’s hard work can be another’s stepping-stone to success! Barcode was the brainchild of Norman Joseph Woodland, but it is George Laurer who is credited for bringing the idea to fruition.

In 2005, Ronald Ivan Baker, a fisherman from East Jeddore, pleaded guilty to having caught seven Northern Wolffish. Baker had attempted to disguise these wolfish, protected by Canada’s Species at Risk ...

For half a century, barcodes have provided a uniform approach to inventory management. Using parallel bars of varying widths against a plain background, barcodes assign a unique numerical value to ...

A barcode is a machine-readable representation of data in a visual format. It consists of parallel lines of varying widths and spacing. Tap to read what is barcode know how it works.

Even the smallest operational detail can make or break a product’s success, and few details are as deceptively simple yet powerful as a barcode. For businesses that manufacture, package, or sell ...

Steve Mulron is a Data Capture Expert for the EMEA region at Zebra Technologies. In our daily lives we hardly give the barcode a second thought. We only really come across it when we’re shopping and ...

A cutting-edge technique called cellular barcoding has been used to tag, track and pinpoint cells responsible for the spread of breast cancer from the main tumour into the blood and other organs. A ...

A group of international scientists launched a campaign in Toronto this week to identify the world's bees, an effort they hope will help track and better understand these important pollinators of food ...