A 44% increase in items sold is nice, if the kind of items are similar to those sold last year. I wonder, however, what part of the raise comes from individual mp3 songs sold through their (very good) online music store. They don't say, so it makes me wonder what the motivation for their silence is. Hmmm...

ITESM is a very well recognized technical university with several campuses all over Mexico. It is regarded as the MIT of Latin America and has many students from all over the world. Many U.S. companies recruit over there, including MS and Google. Right now I work in a large tech company in Austin and we have many engineers from this school. They're top notch. You should check that one out.

National Instruments makes some cool PCI and USB oscilloscopes. They are small and you use them from a UI. What's really cool about them is that it's trivially easy to write a program to control them (using C, LabVIEW, VB, .Net, etc) and to retrieve waveforms to the computer as an array. You should check those out.