The barcodes we encounter every day are getting a significant upgrade. Find out about all the new features you'll soon find on product packaging and how that changes business.

International standards organisation GS1 is preparing to transition to 2D barcodes and away from the 1D barcode format.

“BrandDigital: Simple Ways Top Brands Succeed in the Digital World,” by branding expert Allen Adamson, is the first book to be sold in North America that includes an EZcode—a 2D bar code ...

According to the press release, early testing indicated that scanning 2D barcodes and reading/ingesting the data are two different things, which presents another wrinkle.

BENTONVILLE — Japanese students wear T-shirts with 2D bar codes. Their friends scan the 2D bar codes with smart phones, then get links to Facebook pages or see YouTube videos the barcode wearer ...