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To improve customer delivery, Amazon needs to use robots. That has meant introducing a camera system and doing away with barcodes. It has been over 50 years since the invention of the barcode. It is ...

Amazon's logistics operation is coldly efficient, a vital quality when the company ships so many parcels on a daily basis. The venerable barcode might seem like an efficient way to track inventory, ...

Amazon is making it easier to keep track of the items you need to purchase via the launch of barcode support on the Echo Show 5 and Echo Show 8, both of which are smart displays featuring built-in ...

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Amazon has launched a feature for newer Echo Show that lets you add items to Alexa's built-in shopping list by scanning their barcodes. Sure, it's pretty easy to add stuff to your grocery list with ...

Amazon released its Android shopping app with a little dose of that augmented reality goodness we’ve been talking about: Real-world barcode and CD/DVD cover recognition. It’s a question of clicking ...

The Amazon iPhone App (doesn’t work on anything but iPhone 3GS or 4) got a little update today that will let users scan barcodes and instantly compare prices at Amazon. For instance, you are at a ...

Amazon’s Mobile app gives you a few ways to look up products: you can search by entering keywords, you can browse through recommendations, or you can even take a picture of an item and Amazon will try ...

Amazon Price Check is the one app that can conduct a product search using practically every method available. If you're comfortable only looking to Amazon for the best price, it's an incredibly ...