Major Updates for LexiconTech.com & RepairEngine® Go Live

Filed under: enterprise mobility equipment, barcode, Announcements

If you're a Lexicon customer or a regular visitor to our website you've no doubt noticed the new look and feel at LexiconTech.com.  We've spent the last six months or so working on the new design and content to make our public site and RepairEngine® THE "go to" resources for enterprises that are looking for the best way to manage, maintain, and repair ALL their information technology equipment. These latest updates are crafted to support our strategy of building beyond our beginnings in enterprise...

The Barcode Turns 57 (And Is Still Going Strong)

Filed under: barcode, enterprise mobility equipment, HHP, intermec, symbol, zebra, Announcements

Fifty-seven years ago, on October 7, 1952, the US Patent Office issued a patent to two American inventors (Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver) for a bulls-eye shaped barcode (yes, even though their symbol was "round" - we now refer to it as the first "bar" code) and a scanning apparatus designed to interpret the bulls-eye pattern. Silver and Woodland started as grad students at the Drexel Institute of Technology (now Drexel University), to work on a problem that was brought to...