ePostal News articles from July 2005

ePostal News archives from July 2005

Swiss Post joins Dicey EPM Fray.(electronic post mark)(SwissSign AG)
July 18, 2005... Swiss Post intends to launch a digital postmark and enter the market for secure signatures and the encryption of electronic data and documents. It is evidently unperturbed by the failures other posts like the USPS have had with...

UPS increases inbound visibility.(United Parcel Service of America Inc.)
July 18, 2005... UPS can now automatically notify customers of every package in the UPS system coming their way. The new software technology is called UPS Quantum ViewSM Inbound and enhances the UPS Quantum ViewSM suite of visibility services. It...

USPS reportedly tests tracking service.(US Postal Service)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Not to be outdone by UPS and Fedex, the US Postal Service is reportedly testing a bar code-based tracking service that will let folks track first-class mail and small parcels through its processing and distribution system. Apparently all...

Yellowbill & Conextrade to exchange e-bills.(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... yellowbill, the electronic bill presentment and payment platform of PostFinance, the Swiss Post subsidiary, and the Conextrade electronic trading platform from Swisscom IT Services are being linked. The customer bases of the two platforms will...

Banks back Smart ID cards embedded with Hongkong post's e-Cert.
July 18, 2005... Twelve Hong Kong banks and financial institution will be recognizing e-Cert on Smart ID card for the two-factor authentication that the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) now requires to secure e-banking and the Hongkong Post is using this...

An Post experiments with rural automation.(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... An Post, the Irish postal authority, is computerizing 10 rural post offices to analyze the effect of automation on business volumes at each branch. The pilot equipment is supposed to be in by late summer. Automated counter technology will...

Global Crossing-Lockheed Martin extend their Royal Mail deal.(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Global Crossing has announced a three-year extension of its eight-year agreement with Lockheed Martin to provide a fully managed IP solution for Britain's Royal Mail. The extension is valued at $14 million and means the contract will now run to...

Esker to integrate with Oracle.(Esker Software's DeliveryWare platform with E-Business Suite)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Esker Software, which supplies intelligently automated document delivery solutions, has joined Oracle's PartnerNetwork and says it will seamlessly integrate its DeliveryWare platform with Oracle's E-Business Suite. Esker's technology is...

Microsoft pays IBM $850m not to sue.(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... In another one of those now legendary deals necessitated by its US antitrust suit, Microsoft will pay IBM $775 million and give it a $75 million credit towards Microsoft software. IBM's business was identified in Judge Thomas Penfield...

Liberty Alliance takes up ID theft.(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... The Liberty Alliance has set up an Identity Theft Prevention Group meant to serve as a clearinghouse for the global effort against identity theft, attacking the issue from multiple fronts. It figures it's got a chance considering its members...

Can Unix be saved?
July 18, 2005... The SCO Group, dismissed as nothing more than a lawsuit and a cynical stock market scam, is going to try to save Unix. Obit writers the world over have been sharpening their pencils against the day the last Unix system is sold. Stone...

Google v eBay.(Google Wallet under development)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Google is working on a PayPal knockoff, code named Google Wallet, that it could be out with eBay-topping features and lower prices by the Christmas holidays. eBay gets roughly a quarter of its revenues from PayPal, something like a billion...

Microsoft names point man in its Linux Defense.(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Microsoft has named Jean-Philippe Courtois, its CEO of Microsoft EMEA, president of Microsoft International, a newly created position with overall responsibility for Microsoft operations in Japan, China, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the public...

Security sucks.(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... The Yankee Group says that so-called security products from established vendors like McAfee and Symantec aren't secure at all. In fact they've got more holes in them than than a Microsoft operating system and the situation is getting worse....

'They should have let me hang Microsoft'--Judge Jackson.(Thomas Penfield Jackson)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Retired federal judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, the guy who heard the Microsoft antitrust suit, got in trouble for opening his mouth and was taken off the case, says Microsoft is an unrepentant recidivist that ought to have been broken up like...

AMD sues Intel.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
July 18, 2005... AMD has filed what promises to be an historic, protracted and highly entertaining antitrust suit against Intel that drudges up no end of dirt. AMD's move was encouraged--as we predicted it would be--by Intel's "no contest" reaction to...

Salesforce.com as Microsoft Office Killer.(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Salesforce.com has launched its Summer '05 software update, which includes Multiforce 1.0, a little software-as-a-service number it calls the world's first On-Demand operating system. Salesforce is positioning itself as the "Microsoft...

Supremes back copyright holders.(Grokster and Streamcast)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that file-swapping sites Grokster and Streamcast can be sued for encouraging copyright infringement, holding them responsible for the actions of their users. The Supremes overturned two lower court...