The vintage Levi’s 501 jeans selling at luxury retailer Ron Herman have a story. As a former Levi Strauss & Co. executive, he knew the blue jeans were made by the San Francisco manufacturer in the ...

J.C. Penney wants to use QR codes and keep its customers in the Christmas spirit, so what better way to combine the two than with Santa Tags. Through this program, customers can personalize their ...

What if your lost stuff could find you? Two local companies, GoCodes and FinderCodes, make this possible via scannable tags their customers can affix to their pets, luggage and other belongings. If ...

Is it a printing error? A pixilated maze? One of those puzzles where you have to cross your eyes to see the hidden image? Two-dimensional matrix bar codes are expanding into the mainstream. You can ...

Among my friends, I’m known as a QR Code fanatic, which isn’t quite true. QR Codes are the most popular form of 2D tags, which use regions of dots or rectangles inside a shape (typically square) to ...

You've probably seen QR tags thousands of times, from advertisements in the subway to coupon flyer in the mail to products in the supermarket. They look like stamp-size bar codes, a grid of small ...

Staff member Ewen Smart (left) gets his QR code scanned during a demonstration on how to do the self-test kit at a new walk-through Covid test centre at The Engine Shed, Stirling, which opens to the ...

Monday, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Tag — the company's customizable QR code alternative — is shutting down in August 2015. To which the tech world replied, "Wait ... QR codes are still a thing ...

Yesterday Microsoft made the not-so-surprising announcement that it would no longer be supporting its Microsoft Tag system. Rest easy, all you Microsoft Tag fanatics out there— the technology will ...

Biomedical engineers have developed an edible silk tag with a QR code, which scanned by a smartphone can then confirm authenticity of the whiskey or other liquids, such as liquid medications. In the ...