ePostal News articles from July 2004

ePostal News archives from July 2004

TPG Unit Lands Microsoft Payments Deal.(Brief Article)
July 16, 2004... TPG subsidiary GlobalCollect has inked an agreement to provide non-credit card online payment processing services such as direct debit and online bank account validation for Microsoft's MSN platform. Microsoft is its first customer; the...

UPS Adopts Futuristic Techno-Whiz.(United Parcel Service )
July 16, 2004... UPS, a major rival of postal organizations around the world, plans to start deploying wireless technologies like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi at its package facilities and among its drivers in Europe. UPS said the move would give customers...

Postbank IPO Raises $1.87b.(Brief Article)
July 16, 2004... Deutsche Post has spun out its Postbank unit, selling shares at $34.44 (28.5 euros), close to the low end of its price range. The IPO raised about $1.87 billion (1.55 billion euros). Investor resistance forced the post to cut the price to...

UPU, Eurogiro To Connect Their E-Money Order Networks.(Universal Postal Union)(Eurogiro Network)(Tele Money Order)(Brief Article)
July 16, 2004... The Universal Postal Union has teamed with payment services provider Eurogiro Network to enhance its postal money order service and introduce a new Tele Money Order. As the Internet and its promise of instant, secure electronic money...

French Junk Mail War Could Mean More Spam.(Brief Article)
July 16, 2004... Amove afoot in France to let people turn back the junk mail overwhelming their mailboxes could unwittingly result in more junk e-mail. Tired of the torrent of third-class mail, the French have initiated a sticker campaign called "Stop...

Escher, IBM Win Norway Post Contract.(Brief Article)
July 16, 2004... The Escher Group and IBM have won Norway Post's counter automation business. Escher said IBM would implement Escher's WebRiposte Essential counter automation software at 1,500 post offices and stores in Norway to modernize transactions...

AOL, Yahoo Dump Enterprise IM.(Instant Message )(Brief Article)
July 16, 2004... Both AOL and Yahoo have deep six'd their enterprise IM aspirations after failing to make much headway. AOL said it would migrate customers from its AIM Enterprise Gateway to IM Logic's IM Manager. IM Logic will provide migration services and...

Tumbleweed Enhances Secure Transport.(Secure Transport application)(Brief Article)
July 16, 2004... Secure electronic messaging software provider Tumbleweed Communications has enhanced its Secure Transport application. Secure Transport provides secure file transfer capabilities for organizations of various sizes. The upgrade, which is...

New Revs of Microsoft Business Software Coming.(Brief Article)
July 16, 2004... Against the backdrop of the Oracle PeopleSoft trial, Microsoft has been firming up its plans to roll out new versions of its ERP line of financial, supply chain, CRM and business analytics software over the next 12 months. Targeted at SMEs --...

Server Rebound.(Brief Article)
July 16, 2004... IDC figures the overall server market this year is good for 5% growth, hitting $53 billion. Even increasingly unfashionable Unix servers, down 6% last year, should be up 3% this year, it said. Mostly, however, the momentum is behind...

Gmail Forces Yahoo Mail Enhancement.(Brief Article)
July 16, 2004... Google's free new Gmail e-mail service, which promises users a whopping 1GB of storage, is beginning to have an impact on rival offerings although Gmail is still in beta. Gmail's anticipated arrival has evidently pushed Google rival Yahoo to...

Oracle's Numbers Explain Why It Wants PeopleSoft.
July 16, 2004... Oracle's fiscal fourth-quarter results are a textbook example of why it wants PeopleSoft bad enough to take on the Justice Department in court: its applications business sucks. Other than that everything is jolly. The sails of its flagship...

Euro Teens Want Cameras & Music on their Cell Phones.(Brief Article)
July 16, 2004... The desire to take pictures with a cell phone will be one of the main drivers of mobile phone upgrades in Europe over the next year, according to market intelligence firm Telephia. Besides cameras, consumers also want music, video and TV...

Yankee: Nearly 1.8b Wireless Users in 2007.(Brief Article)
July 16, 2004... According to the Yankee Group, there'll be some 1.78 billion wireless users around the world by the end of 2007, with EMEA owning 40% of the market. Due to the enormous growth potential in Asia, Latin America and Africa, Yankee expects that...

epost Buys Rival; E-Bill Services To Merge.(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Canada Post's epost operation has bought webdoxs, the rival e-bill delivery service, from BCE Emergis for a reported $11 million in hopes of accelerating Canada's adoption of e-bill presentment and payment. epost plans to combine its...

USPS Claims Direct Mail Spurs Online Sales.(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... The US Postal Service has released a study it had done that found that direct mail drives online sales. The survey, called "The Multi-Channel Catalog Study," argues that catalogs drive Internet sales and benefit retailers by enhancing...

Old Hand Returns as epost's New CEO.(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Roger Couldrey, who worked at epost from 1999-2001, has been tapped as its new CEO. The concern's third boss, Couldrey succeeds John Drajewicz, who abruptly left in December after a short stint. Couldrey, who took over the post last month,...

UK's Post Office To Offer Phone Service.(teamed up with Cable & Wireless)(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... The UK's Post Office has teamed up with Cable & Wireless to provide landline phone service to customers throughout the country. Dubbed the Post Office's HomePhone, the new service will be available to the 21 million UK customers who use BT...

IBM Adds E-Messaging to Express Portfolio.(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... IBM has added e-mail messaging to its portfolio of Express products for small and mid-sized businesses. IBM said that starting immediately it will offer Lotus Domino Messaging Express as part of Express. Starting at $98 for new users (or...

McDonald's, Kellogg's Team with AT&T Wireless.
July 19, 2004... AT&T Wireless is teaming with two of the biggest names in food -- McDonald's and Kellogg's -- to boost text messaging. Its deal with McDonald's is supposedly the biggest onpackage text-messaging promotion ever to hit the United States. Starting...

Drivers & Inhibitors of Consumer Broadband Adoption.(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Technology market research firm Parks Associates sponsored a webcast last month examining "What drives and inhibits consumer adoption of broadband?" Initially users wanted raw speed but in the future they will want other features, the company...

Mobile Market Poised for Significant Growth.(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... According to wireless market research firm EMC there were more than 1.5 billion mobile phone subscribers worldwide the first week of June. If, as EMC expects, we see net additions of more than 240 million this year and next, the mobile industry...

AOL, Yahoo Dump Enterprise IM.(instant messanger)(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Both AOL and Yahoo have deep six'd their enterprise IM aspirations after failing to make much headway. AOL said it would migrate customers from its AIM Enterprise Gateway to IM Logic's IM Manager. IM Logic will provide migration services and...

Sun Tries Globalizing Government Push.(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Sun is going to build a new Global Government Office around Clark Masters, the guy who was relieved of running its mid- and high-end server unit and sent to mind its relationship with federal accounts, the corporate equivalent of Siberia, even...

Google & Microsoft Play Tit-for-Tat.(business competitons)(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Microsoft is upping the amount of storage available to users of its free Hotmail service but it will still fall short of the whopping one-gig "spam collector" that Google is offering to people who sign up for the controversial Gmail service...

ISPs Moot New Anti-Spam Plans.(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Abunch of ISPs including Microsoft, Yahoo, EarthLink, AOL and Comcast has put out some technical guidelines to tackle the spam barrage. Under the banner of the year-old Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA), their proposals address two key...