Claim: Retailers mistakenly scanned the wrong side of a CD bearing bar code-themed cover art, resulting in lower prices for customers. (The real bar code used for scanning the price of the item at ...

Initially, bar codes were used to label and identify products, but have evolved to provide valuable information on how to market your products, says Kemtek.

Inventor Joe Woodland drew the first bar code in sand in Miami Beach, decades before technology could bring his vision to life ...

The basic idea behind the bar code came from research by N. Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver in the late 1940s. In the early 1960s, David J. Collins pioneered a way to scan bar codes with ...

Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel remember Norman Joseph Woodland, an inventor of the bar code. He died Sunday at the age of 91.

The goal of this project was to determine whether the use of bar-code medication administration complied with current evidence as to how it should be used. Using an evidence-based checklist, we ...