No more forgotten ingredients or last-minute shopping trips—this upcoming refrigerator from GE lets you scan items as you ...

The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer—on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. Fifty is ancient for most technologies, but barcodes are still going strong.

GE Profile's new smart fridge, featuring a built-in grocery barcode scanner, falls squarely in the latter category. While ...

Scan items as you use them, and let the refrigerator automatically update your grocery list—no more forgotten condiments or last-minute shopping trips.

Barcode technology has become so widespread that many consumers take it for granted, but the technology continues to offer numerous benefits in a wide array of businesses. With only some basic ...

Featured in many sci-fi stories as a quicker, more efficient way to record and transfer information, barcodes are both extremely commonplace today, and still amazingly poorly understood by many.

List" feature uses the barcode scanner to quickly (and precisely) add items to a shareable shopping list in the company’s SmartHQ app. You can refer to that list while you're shopping in person, or ...

Today's ultra-competitive business market forces companies do more with less while being as efficient as possible. Computerizing your business cash register or accounting system is an excellent way of ...

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Here is a tutorial to generate a barcode in Microsoft Excel. You might want to generate barcodes in Excel to make a product catalog or to track stocked items in Excel or for any other reason. This ...