Scientists at Toshiba's Corporate Research and Development Center, in Japan have developed a system that offers shoppers advice on what to buy based on the product barcode and the current weblog buzz around the gadget. The team describes the system WOM Scouter this month in the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies.

With GPS technology and a Bluetooth wireless connection, it is ideal for frontline employees.

In the first study of its kind, researchers led by The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine's Ross Koppel, Ph.D. studied how hospital nurses actually use bar-coded technology that matches the right patient with the right dose of the right medication.

A new technology with research and clinical application including the early detection of disease has been invented and developed by University of Queensland researchers.

Janam’s Palm-based rugged mobile computer is chosen for market leading, barcode-based shelf ordering system

Most of us are familiar with bar codes, those small black stripes with numbers below, known as the Universal Product Code or UPC label, that appear on commercial products. We scan them at the grocery store or to check a price, or have to cut them out and send them in for a rebate.

Smithsonian researchers are among the leaders in a worldwide effort to revolutionize the way scientists identify species in the laboratory and in the field with a technique called DNA barcoding. Similar to the barcode that identifies an item at the grocery store, a DNA barcode is used to identify and distinguish biological species.

About 350 DNA barcoding experts from 46 nations will converge in Taipei amid spiralling interest from health officials, government agencies and others beginning to realize potential applications in a range of areas -- from consumer protection and food safety to disease prevention and better environmental monitoring.

BlueStar is distributing SATO’s new RFID-ready GL4e series of printers for medium-duty industrial applications. The new GL4e printer provides extensive support to encoding Class 1 GEN 2 RFID tags--allowing users to economically print barcode labels now, while in the future seamlessly incorporating RFID-encoding capabilities as needs change.