With Microsoft announcing plans Monday to shut down its Tag technology by 2015, it cast further skepticism around the future of QR codes and other mobile activation platforms like augmented reality ...

For the generation that came of age in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Super Bowl LVI seemed like a trip down memory lane. The Cincinnati Bengals made their first Super Bowl appearance since the 1980s ...

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 ...

For most of us, asking to remember what we did yesterday can create pause, but when I started thinking about life working in the digital ecosystem since 1996, one of the technologies that caused me to ...

Hailed as 'space-age' technology upon their launch in Britain in 1979, 'bar-coding' was praised as a wonderful invention that would speed up the weekly shop. But 50 years after being first used on ...

Let's start with the obvious: QR codes are not new. They turned heads as the "new hot thing" in the early 2010s (around the days of the Palm Pilot and Blackberry — remember those?) before getting ...

Among the many changes brought about by the pandemic is the widespread use of QR codes, graphical representations of digital data that can be printed and later scanned by a smartphone or other device.

The Chapel Hill Historical Society and Downtown Chapel Hill Partnership launched a virtual, self-guided tour through the history of Chapel Hill. QR codes are posted on the windows of various local ...

Stillwater, known as the “birthplace of Minnesota,” is famous for its history, but it can be difficult to envision how and where historical events took place. Stillwater resident and history buff Matt ...

PayPal Holdings Inc. has made big plays for the physical point of sale before, but on Wednesday the San Jose, Calif.-based company unveiled what could be its biggest strategy yet to capture ...