Symbol Technologies is a manufacturer and worldwide supplier of mobile data capture and delivery equipment. The company specializes in barcode scanners, mobile computers, RFID systems and Wireless LAN infrastructure. Symbol Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola, and headquartered in Holtsville, New York USA. The company was co-founded in 1973 by Dr. Jerome Swartz and physicist Dr. Shelley A. Harrison. At that time, the company focused on handheld laser based scanning of bar codes. Under Dr. Swartz's leadership the company became a leader in handheld laser bar code scanning... devices which are commonly seen at point of sale registers. The company focused heavily on the retail industry and began to get involved in inventory management. These activities typically required people to scan items where they are stored and as such needed to be mobile. Symbol began to make small computers that could store data scanned to take inventory counts remotely and then upload the information gathered to a host system. This was the rationale for the purchase of MSI - a mobile computer company that was headquartered in southern California.
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| Founded: | 1975 |
| Headquarters: | Holtsville, New York |