ePostal News articles from July 2008

ePostal News archives from July 2008

New Zealand Post Jumps on iPhone Bandwagon.
July 28, 2008... Seizing the opportunity to deliver newfangled technology-based services to customers, the state-owned New Zealand Post and its wholly owned Kiwibank subsidiary have banded together to support Apple's new iPhone 3G and its Internet access....

Stamps.com To Push PC Postage Through Avery Dennison.
July 28, 2008... Stamps.com has teamed up with Avery Dennison's Office Products Group in pursuit of small business users and consumers, who will now be offered a co-branded service that lets them print official postage using Stamps.com on Avery self-adhesive...

USPS Keeps Reorganizing.
July 28, 2008... As part of its recent reorganization - which put a private sector guy in charge of the agency's revenue - the United States Postal Service has created two new positions naming Pritha Mehra vice-president of business mail entry and payment...

EC Finds Poste Italiane Got Illegal State Aid.
July 28, 2008... The European Commission has told Poste Italiane that it has to pay back the aid it got from the Italian government. EC antitrust czarina Neelie Kroes said, "In the liberalized postal sector, it is crucial to ensure a level playing field among...

Virtual Systems Integrates with BCC Software, Cures Awkward Process.
July 28, 2008... Virtual Systems Corporation, creator of Mail-Shop and Digi-Shop software solutions for direct mail and printing, has released a postal-data integration solution that's supposed to facilitate the automated importing of postal paperwork. The new...

Mountain Media Integrates with the Endicia Internet Postage Solution.(Brief article)
July 28, 2008... Mountain Media has released an integration component to its Mountain Commerce shopping cart software that will give customers access to USPS order shipping and fulfillment through the Endicia Internet Postage solution. Online merchants...

Qatar Inches Toward Privatization.
July 28, 2008... Qatar is reportedly preparing a report on the feasibility of privatizing the Qatar Postal Corporation. According to the Gulf Times, the proposal send to the government includes a recommendation that the post tie up with a firm specializing in...

Deutsche Post Adopts 'Go Slow' Posture on Postbank Divestiture.
July 28, 2008... Deutsche Post, which has reportedly asking more than most people want to pay for its interest in Deutsche Postbank, is now saying it's under no pressure to sell its 50%-plus-one-share position. It's reportedly in discussions with prospective...

CMC Developing Direct Presence in US.
July 28, 2008... B|we Bell + Howell, which has been selling CMC mail inserting systems for the last five or six years, is supposed to help the Italian company strengthen its direct presence in North America and establish a direct marketing channel that...

Great Yahoo Proxy Fight Ends with a Whimper.
July 28, 2008... There ain't gonna be no highly diverting no-holds-barred fight-to-the-finish proxy fight over Yahoo come the company's stockholders meeting August 1. The two sides cut a deal Monday. Yahoo will be giving corporate raider Carl Icahn - who was...

EC Files New Charges Against Intel.
July 28, 2008... That thud you heard was the European Commission hitting Intel with a second supplemental indictment-like statement of objection (SO) charging the company with three more instances of antitrust violations designed to keep AMD out of the market....

AMD CEO Steps Down.
July 28, 2008... CEO Hector Ruiz, increasingly blamed for the harrowing of AMD, stepped down during the company's Q2 conference call with Wall Street in favor of his sidekick, AMD president and patent-carrying engineer Dirk Meyer, the guy who used to run AMD's...

Start-up Creates PowerPC-Based Cloud Desktop.
July 28, 2008... There hasn't been a PowerPC-based computer since Apple abandoned the dingus and bolted to Intel, a move that did wonders for Apple's volumes. Now a Mountain View start-up called CherryPal Inc is about to introduce a $249 Debian-based desktop...

Microsoft Disappoints, Ditto Google.
July 28, 2008... Microsoft earned $4.3 billion on revenues of $15.84 billion, up 18%, in its fourth fiscal quarter in June, making it a $60 billion company - compliments of emerging markets and demand for Windows Server 2008. It had better-than-expected Vista...

Microsoft's Silverlight Widgetry Sued for Patent Infringement.
July 28, 2008... Microsoft and its cross-platform, Flash-rivaling, RIA-building Silverlight plug-in are being sued in San Francisco for patent infringement by a no-profile Massachusetts outfit called Gotuit Media Corporation. The thin seven-page suit and its...

Fujitsu Siemens Computers May Be Toast: Reuters.
July 28, 2008... The 50-50 Fujitsu-Siemens joint venture Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Europe's biggest PC maker, may come unglued because of thin profit margins, according to Reuters. The Suedeutsche Zeitung said the same thing. The alliance is up for a...

Intel Proves Pretty Much Teflon-Coated.
July 28, 2008... As the economy swings from bad to worse and back again, Intel and the techno lust it engenders keep soldering on. The company's second-quarter results surpassed Wall Street's expectations and - despite various warnings of weakening PC demand...

Citrix' Project Kensho To Create Hypervisor-Independent Application Workloads.
July 28, 2008... Citrix has announced Project Kensho, which is supposed to deliver Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) tools that will let ISVs and enterprise IT folk create portable hypervisor-independent enterprise application workloads that should run across...

Sun Peeks from Behind Clouds.
July 28, 2008... Sun, whose stock has been teetering on the brink of disaster, pre-announced its fourth quarter and said it could have non-GAAP earnings somewhere between 25 cents and 35 cents because of a $100 million restructuring charge (five-15 cents GAAP)...

Live Mesh Testing Widens.
July 28, 2008... Microsoft is opening its Live Mesh software-plus-service "universal" file synching-and-sharing scheme to more US testers. The widgetry is supposed to be a prelude to web-enabling Office and other applications, making them available from...

DOD To Build HP-Based Cloud.
July 28, 2008... About a month and a half ago HP created a Scalable Computing and Infrastructure Organization (SCIO) out of a stealth Web 2.0 group that it's had under the covers for the last year, year-and-a-half and its HPC unit along with its cloud...

HP Goes into the POD Business.
July 28, 2008... HP is going into the shipping container business following down the path already trod by Sun and recently IBM and some other smaller firms except HP of course figures it can do these data center add-ons better than its rivals. HP calls its...

Microsoft Buys Zoomix.
July 28, 2008... Microsoft is buying privately held Israeli ISV Zoomix on undisclosed terms. Its Accelerator software, which employs both semantic and linguistic analysis, as well as machine learning, is meant to improve enterprise data quality by classifying...

Zoho Signs Swisscom to Six-Month Pilot.
July 28, 2008... Zoho, the online Office wannabe, has gotten Swisscom, the telephone side of the old Swiss PTT monopoly, to offer its 300,000 business customers a suite of Zoho's SaaS applications as part of a six-month pilot through its Teamnet portal. The...

Apple Number 3.
July 28, 2008... Apple is now the third-largest PC vendor in the US, according to IDC and Gartner's preliminary Q2 data, ousting Acer from the slot. Garner thinks Mac shipments were up 38% year-over-year in Q2 to give Apple 8.5% of the sputtering US market, up...

Microsoft's Sweetener.
July 28, 2008... The last Microsoft deal that Yahoo rejected guaranteed Yahoo $2.3 billion in annual search advertising revenues for the next five years, $19.5 billion-$26.5 billion over 10 years. Last month Microsoft offered $9 billion upfront and a guaranteed...

One Million iPhones in 3 Days.
July 28, 2008... Apple said it sold a million of its new iPhone 3Gs its first weekend out. That means Apple sold four times as many of the new phone as its predecessor in its first three days but of course it's got way more points of sale now. It's selling in...

Google To Anonymize User Data.
July 28, 2008... In the name of user privacy, Google is going to anonymize YouTube user data and Internet addresses before turning it over under court order to Viacom, which is suing YouTube for a billion dollars for copyright infringement. The deal was cut by...

Google Down.
July 28, 2008... Google's Documents and Spreadsheets service went down for 45 minutes according to Cnet, one of the hazards of web-based widgetry.

eBay Wins Tiffany Suit.
July 28, 2008... A New York district court has found in favor of eBay in a suit brought by Tiffany's accusing it of doing little to stop the sale of counterfeit Tiffany goods on its site. eBay issued a statement saying, "The ruling establishes that protecting...