If bricks and mortar retail stores were vampires, then Amazon is a vengeful, ruthless Peter Cushing intent on destroying them. With the latest update to its iPhone app, Peter, er, Amazon has added a ...

Did you have a New Year's resolution to organize your book collection (again)? It's definitely on the list in our household, but it's a daunting job; we have thousands of books (literally and ...

You can scan a barcode with your iPhone by using a third-party app. Currently, there are no built-in apps that can read barcodes. Your iPhone can automatically scan QR codes using the built-in camera ...

Users of the Bing app for iPhone are getting some welcomed improvements today with the latest update bringing a new barcode scanner with price comparison functionality and a new deal finder feature.

Now that the new iPhone 3G S has a video camera, TechStars startup Occipital has released an update to its RedLaser app (iTunes link, $1.99) which speeds up barcode scanning by not requiring you to ...

Amazon just updated their Amazon Mobile app for iPhone to now include barcode scanning. Basically, while you are out and about shopping, you can use your iPhone to scan the barcode of whatever you are ...

eBay just announced that it has acquired RedLaser, a nifty barcode-scanning application for iPhone, and related technology from Occipital. Terms for the deal were not disclosed. The app has seen over ...

EBay said Thursday that it will acquire RedLaser, a barcode scanning application for the iPhone and related assets from Occipital. Red Laser has 2 million downloads and is one of the more popular ...

Bing just upped its effort in the search engine war against Google with an updated iPhone app. Just in time for iOS4’s firmware update, the app has a bunch of tweaks, but one, real Google-beater: ...

Tesco is today introducing a barcode scanner for iPhones that will enable shoppers to add grocery items to their online shopping basket instantly by scanning them. The supermarket giant has added the ...

Retail giant Tesco has added barcode scanning to its free iPhone app, allowing consumers to add items to their online shopping basket by using their handset as a barcode scanner. The update to the ...

Tesco has updated its grocery app for the iPhone to include a barcode reader that will enable customers to add items to their online shopping basket more quickly and simply than ever before. The ...