While every phone can read QR codes located around you, barcode scanning is a different story altogether, and the best barcode scanner app makes it a bliss. While the process works similarly as QR ...

Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews team since 2000. He covers the gamut of gadgets and is a notable reviewer of mobile accessories and portable audio products, ...

This week the folks at Google have updated the iOS (and soon the Android) version of the Chrome web browser. This update uses the camera of the device it's running on to locate and scan QR codes as ...

QR codes have been around for awhile now, and were predicted to be the “next big thing.” QR codes were essentially something that you could scan with your phone, which would then take you to a web ...

QR or Quick Response codes are one of the most popular ways to access information on the go. Invented in 1994 and once considered the wave of the future, part of the QR code revival that started in ...

A benign barcode scanner with more than 10 million downloads from Google Play has been caught receiving an upgrade that turned it to the dark side, prompting the search-and-advertising giant to remove ...

A somewhat quirky aspect of iOS 14 is that there are some hidden apps lurking beneath the surface. They are impossible to access, however, unless you know where to look. One representative example is ...

If you’ve had trouble scanning QR codes on your Android, perhaps on a wall across the room, Google’s testing a new feature with developers that could make scanning from a distance easier. If you’ve ...