Barcode Scanner

Not content with revolutionizing how you search for information online, Google is planning to change how you interact with local shops and restaurants. As part of the company's bid to become more relevant in local search and provide searchers with more means of finding what they want, when they...

By this time next year, holiday shoppers could be pointing their cellphones at products on store shelves and seeing all kinds of information on their handsets. Retailers and manufacturers are setting standards that could ease the way for the next generation of barcodes, which can send out reams of...