Your smartphone is full of surprises. There’s an app if you want to use your phone as a magnifying glass or scanner. Tap or click here for hidden apps on your smartphone and how to find them.

QR codes are dead, an internet marketing strategist wrote in AdAge in 2013. The murderer: "easier-to-use apps." And yet, four years later, that isn't the case. Apps have become even more prevalent and ...

Installing new apps for your Android device is easy: launch the Android Market application, search for an app and install it. However, with a barcode or "quick response" scanner app, you can also ...

If your Android device is not scanning a QR code, make sure the code is properly framed on your screen. Cleaning your camera lens and getting better lighting on the code are other potential solutions.

Apple on Tuesday announced new App Store marketing tools and resources that developers can use to promote their apps online and elsewhere. Those tools, which Apple announced in a developer update, ...