Amazon's logistics operation is coldly efficient, a vital quality when the company ships so many parcels on a daily basis. The venerable barcode might seem like an efficient way to track inventory, ...

To improve customer delivery, Amazon needs to use robots. That has meant introducing a camera system and doing away with barcodes. It has been over 50 years since the invention of the barcode. It is ...

Barcodes are set to vanish from UK shop items within the next five years, a report by GS1 UK has revealed. Retail expert Kate Hardcastle believes that new technologies which offer data to consumers ...

Amazon’s Mobile app gives you a few ways to look up products: you can search by entering keywords, you can browse through recommendations, or you can even take a picture of an item and Amazon will try ...

Amazon released its Android shopping app with a little dose of that augmented reality goodness we’ve been talking about: Real-world barcode and CD/DVD cover recognition. It’s a question of clicking ...

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Amazon Price Check is the one app that can conduct a product search using practically every method available. If you're comfortable only looking to Amazon for the best price, it's an incredibly ...