Symbol hits the jackpot

Symbol Technologies has found the winning combination with a $9 million (#5.29 million) contract to supply 20,000 hand-held portable computers to Littlewoods Promotions. The company, famous for its football pools, will dispatch door-to-door collectors with the handheld devices and Littlewoods' barcoded pools card. A Littlewoods spokesman said the system will replace the current manual process of printing paper coupons, and customers will no longer have to repeat the same selection process each week.