An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link While you can use your iPhone's Camera app to automatically scan QR codes by just holding the camera in front of the QR code and taping a pop-up, ...

Amazon has released an updated version of its iPhone app which lets you search for items by scanning their barcodes with your phone’s camera. That means you can walk through a store, pick up an item, ...

EBay said Thursday that it will acquire RedLaser, a barcode scanning application for the iPhone and related assets from Occipital. Red Laser has 2 million downloads and is one of the more popular ...

Did you have a New Year's resolution to organize your book collection (again)? It's definitely on the list in our household, but it's a daunting job; we have thousands of books (literally and ...

With contactless interactions more common than ever, there is more of a need to read a QR code than ever. Here's how to read QR codes using your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. A QR code is a type of two ...

Eventbrite has updated its Easy Entry iPhone app with a smart feature: barcode scanning. People have become more accustomed to having ticket collectors scan their tickets, so scanning of a barcode on ...

eBay just announced that it has acquired RedLaser, a nifty barcode-scanning application for iPhone, and related technology from Occipital. Terms for the deal were not disclosed. The app has seen over ...

Judging by their growing presence in the App Store, it’s clear that barcode scanning apps have struck a nerve with some iPhone users. I recently reviewed RedLaser and found it to be quite useful and ...

Retail giant Tesco has added barcode scanning to its free iPhone app, allowing consumers to add items to their online shopping basket by using their handset as a barcode scanner. The update to the ...

If bricks and mortar retail stores were vampires, then Amazon is a vengeful, ruthless Peter Cushing intent on destroying them. With the latest update to its iPhone app, Peter, er, Amazon has added a ...