MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --Square, black and white codes are popping up all over on products, in magazines, on buildings and business cards. QR codes, or quick response codes, link the outside world to the ...

QR codes are popular elsewhere in the world, and catching on in the U.S., but one barrier to common use is the need for a special app on a smartphone to read them. Not a problem now, as even ...

QR codes may not be super popular today, but many small and local businesses are still using them to offer their customers exclusive discounts and benefits. However, most phones today, by default, don ...

Everywhere you look at the South by Southwest conference this week, you see QR codes. The square “quick response” codes turn URLs, vCards, or any kind of text into a jumble of pixels that you can scan ...

Many of you reading this have undoubtedly seen a QR (Quick Response) code by now (the thing pictured to the right), but there's just as much -- if not more -- confusion surrounding them today as there ...

QR codes are an intermediate technology at best, a novelty at worst. This is a picture of a roller-skating horse named Jimmy. I think he is a great analogy to explain why QR codes, those little ...