The group has recommended standardizing how a universal product code is used.

When a title can't be found, you can sometimes use the number on a disc's universal product code.

The information provided would be encoded, using a system similar to the universal product code in supermarkets.

"Like the universal product code that's on everything you buy at the grocery store," the entomologist explained.

Next time, he said, he would use universal product code stickers and scanners instead.

The mark of the beast in the Universal Product Code?

"People stare in wonder at a universal product code," Miss Sloan said.

Beginning in 1974, Universal Product Codes began to appear on items.

The ones with the Universal Product Code on them.

Each mark is a miniature Universal Product Code for a Web address.

For example, it installed "wands" at cash registers that are waved over the universal product codes on all price tags.

For example, the Universal Product Code was but a gleam in the eyes of computer visionaries a decade ago.

Also items could be gathered from Universal Product Code barcodes.

The technicians also add a "marker" gene, a kind of universal product code that allows Monsanto to identify its plants after they leave the lab.

Half provides a platform where sellers competitively "bid" against one another, based on Universal Product Code.

The algorithm can also be extended for use on 2D Universal Product Codes.

The reason for expanding the 12-digit bar code, known as the Universal Product Code, is twofold.

It turns out that the American Universal Product Code - which turned 30 years old last month - was never so universal after all.

The growth of Universal Product Codes and the scanning machinery to read them has brought greater technological capability to the checkout counter.

The American 12" album cover was jokingly dominated by the album's Universal Product Code.

The Universal Product Code has bit patterns at the beginning, middle and end of the barcode called "guard bars".

Punch in the Universal Product Code number that appears beneath the barcode and it will locate lower prices.

The Universal Product Code, those black-and-white stripes that let clerks scan products at stores rather than punch in each individual price, turned 30 yesterday.

The final digit of a Universal Product Code is a check digit computed as follows:

Universal Product Code (bar code)