As all Soccer Fans knows by now, the World Cup Soccer 2010 will be hosted in South Africa and the country is up in arms getting everything ready for the big event. New Stadiums are being built, roads are being upgraded, and even the Gauteng Train ( a new subway train system) sees the light. [...]

The barcode may be everywhere today, but it is a relatively recent invention. They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and so it was with the barcode. Overhearing a local merchant’s request for a quick-method system to read product information at the checkout counter, graduate student Bernard Silver and his friend, Norman Woodland, [...]