The Many Kinds of Barcode Scanners
Oh, don’t look at us like that! This is a fun topic! Apparently for the simple application of optically scanning data, we have dozens of special needs for each industry, and a Swiss Army knife’s worth of gadgets to meet them. Speaking of Swiss Army knives, have you ever noticed [...]
I am a programmer and web-designer. While working on a POS system for a client, I started to research Barcode scanners to integrate with in the system. After a lot of reading online reviews and discussing in several forums, I decided on the Microvision ROV – Bluetooth Storage Barcode Scanner. The results were excellent. Personally, [...]
If the title of this article is something that’s on your mind, you’re not alone. As a mobile device user, you repeatedly have the subject of encryption coming up in discussions of security on everything from laptops to smartphones. But what is it, how does it work, and why does it make our brains fuzzy?
Cryptography [...]
Once upon a time, the world used barcodes to track items. Starting in the 1950s, barcodes began to be applied to labels on eventually every retail consumer product manufactured. Every item had its UPC. Everybody seemed fairly happy with it.
But technology has advanced to the point of radio frequency ID tags. And, perhaps because of [...]
Since the beginning of the industrial age and the capitalistic consumption society which it spawned, people have been looking for a method of automated data collection. Even before computers, retailers kept elaborate stock number systems. Sometimes these would show up as adhesive tags on the products, but you still had to have a human read [...]
Entrepreneurs who start a small retail business run into one of those things that you never think of until you have to: how to deal with barcodes. Barcodes have a kind of unseen life of their own, unnoticed by the majority of society. Then you open a store and have to stock retail, and all [...]
