LexiconTech.com Re-Design Launching Soon: Upgrades Sharpen Messages for our Company, Products

Filed under: General Business, Announcements

As we’ve continued to grow and evolve what we do for our clients, we decided that a website refresh was in order to better tell our story. When we launch later this month, new visitors can expect to quickly learn who Lexicon is and immediately know the benefits we’re able to deliver through our IT maintenance and repair execution and management products. We’ll also focus our message to better communicate with the particular customer groups we serve, so that Enterprises, OEM’s,...

SCRUM Development Works for RepairEngine®

Filed under: Barcode Scanner Repair, Barcode Printer Repair, General Business, Announcements

The PR Department at Lexicon (aka the "suits") issued a new Press Release yesterday about the process we employ to create and roll-out new RepairEngine® features.   They left out a lot of the good stuff about how SCRUM really works however, especially, the theory of who is central and who is peripheral to the development effort, i.e., who is the "pig" and who is the "chicken" in this version of the famous "ham and egg breakfast" (with apologies and thanks to Frank Bowers, the great philosopher/account...

Business Failures Provide Fuel for Recovery

Filed under: Barcode Scanner Repair, Barcode Scanner Business, intermec, zebra, Barcode Printer Repair, General Business, symbol, used barcode equipment, bailout, Announcements

With the economic news seeming to grow ever more dire by the day (we read about the "latest" bailout of Citigroup only this morning), it's only human of us to long for something positive on the financial front.  But the bad news just seems to keep coming for banks and financial companies, mortgage lenders and residential builders, and now with a recession looming and consumers cutting back on purchases, retailers of all stripes have really been stung.  Circuit City's bankruptcy filing is only one of the...

Thoughts on the Financial Crisis and "Keepin' On"

Filed under: General Business, Announcements

Down Market Hits 1-YR Mark With No End in Sight; Retailers Report Weak September Sales; Paulson Says Global Markets Remain Strained -- Just another day in this "sub-prime" credit crisis of a paradise that we've apparently been lurching toward since (what turned out to be) the market's high-water mark of October 9, 2007.  But since most of us couldn't predict the future, we didn't realize that the stock market and maybe the economy, certainly some sectors of it, were about to head south.   A USA Today...

Uncertain Economy Spikes Demand for Used Symbol, Used Intermec, Used Zebra Equipment

Filed under: General Business, intermec, symbol, used barcode equipment, zebra, Announcements

Since we're in the business of providing repair and maintenance for Symbol, Intermec and Zebra equipment and we also sell a fair amount of popular legacy barcode equipment (which is a nice way of saying we sell a lot of used Symbol, used Intermec, and used Zebra gear), we're in a position to observe trends in current and future barcode & mobility equipment usage. Over the last sixty days or so, we've seen an upswing in customer inquiries and orders for devices like the Zebra 140xiIII,...