While every phone can read QR codes located around you, barcode scanning is a different story altogether, and the best barcode scanner app makes it a bliss. While the process works similarly as QR ...

For over a year, mobile commerce startup Mobeam has been looking for OEM suitors willing to embed its bar code scanning tech into phones -- and it's found an ideal partner in Samsung. The tech, which ...

Smartphone applications that scan things — using the onboard camera to digitize documents or to read bar codes — are proving useful in shopping aisles, train stations, and the library. And those ...