QR code, short for Quick Response Code, is a kind of matrix barcode that includes information about a product or service. You can find it being used for advertising purposes, where brands put up ...

QR codes are everywhere these days, from glossy product flyers to billboards to T-shirts. But it’s quite possible you have no idea what a QR code is and wouldn’t recognize one if you saw one. And I ...

A QR Code, or Quick Response Code, is a type of matrix barcode that is readable by QR scanners or mobile phones equipped with a camera. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern ...

Jim Pond, owner of the Leominster marketing firm Compassed, recently had a client who was looking to make a splash with his marketing strategy. Pond knew exactly the right technology to use: a Quick ...

Windows/Linux/iOS: Ever wish you could scan QR codes and other barcodes from your computer, without pulling out your phone? (Maybe you miss your old CueCat?) ZBar is a simple cross-platform tool that ...

Who would have thought that the lowly barcode, the stodgy grandfather of the identification technology world, would reemerge as a marketer’s dream? Well, it is happening. A new generation of barcodes ...

Barcodes are set to disappear in favour of modern QR codes. After more than 50 years of ubiquity, the organisation that oversees the world's barcodes is preparing to consign them to the bargain bin of ...

Everywhere you look at the South by Southwest conference this week, you see QR codes. The square “quick response” codes turn URLs, vCards, or any kind of text into a jumble of pixels that you can scan ...