ePostal News articles from June 2004

ePostal News archives from June 2004

Passlogix Brings Password Management Nirvana to USPS.(US Postal Service)
June 7, 2004... The US Postal Service is in the final stages of deploying an enterprise-wide single sign-on system that promises to ease the burden of managing the passwords of the thousands of its employees. The implementation should make it easier for...

Stamps.com Launches PC Postage Upgrade.(Internet postage service)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Stamps.com has rolled out a new version of its Internet postage service, version 4, which is supposed to improve a user's experience with printing postage. Its lets users reprint postage in the event of any printing problem and get refunds...

Swiss Post Buys Search Engine.(Search.ch)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... The Swiss Post has acquired local search engine search.ch on undisclosed terms. Search.ch, which is popular in Switzerland, also provides an online phone directory. Search.ch will be integrated into the Swiss Post's operations and the...

Correos Gets New President.(Appointment)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Jos Dami[sz]n Santiago-Martn has been named the president of Correos, the Spanish post office. He succeeds Vctor Calvo-Sotelo Ib[sz][+ or -]ez-Martn. For the last 10 years he has worked at Grupo Altadis.

AOL: 'A Broadband Connection Alone Is Not Enough'.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Time Warner's America Online operation will kicking off a big two-month advertising push for its AOL for Broadband service on June 1. Ads will run on nytimes.com, washingtonpost. com and multimedia-intensive sites such as rollingstone. ...

Europe To Have 33.5m Broadband Users by Year-end.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... There will be 33.5 million homes in Europe with broadband access to the net by year-end, research firm Strategy Analytics said in a study titled "Broadband in Europe: Competition Heats Up At Last." The report concludes that coun tries with...

IDC: No Killer App for European Mobile Market.
June 7, 2004... With all the competition in the mobile market, operators are finding it necessary to differentiate themselves with innovative content and service. In Western Europe, these apps are what will generate operator traffic and revenues, according to...

Internet Sales Up 28.1%.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Sales over the Internet, excluding tickets, travel and financial services, rose 28.1% in Q1 according to a Commerce Department count. Purchases made over the net, by e-mail or via other electronic networks accounted for 1.9% of all US retail...

Net Advertising To Break All-Time Record.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Advertising on the net has rebounded from the lows of the dot.com bust and this year will surpass the $8.1 billion US record it set in 2000. Internet ads remain a small part of overall advertising, but are one of the fastest-growing sectors....

Microsoft Takes Another Shot at Spam.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Microsoft is merging its Caller ID for E-Mail scheme to curb spam with the Sender Policy Framework broached by Pobox.com CTO Meng Wong to spur the adoption of e-mail authentication. The unified anti-spam spec is supposed to help eliminate...

Michael Dell Regrets He Didn't Move Sooner.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Michael Dell, who's sworn to change the segment's economics, says he regrets he waited until a year ago to get into the printer game. He said it was "the biggest mistake I've made" and Dell printers are already doing a billion dollars a year,...

Oracle Named the Big Cheese of Linux Databases; IBM is More of a Swiss.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Thanks to a simply enormous 361% growth spurt in its Linux business last year, Oracle vaulted over IBM to become the leading big-time database on Linux, according to some shiny new Gartner numbers. Gartner says Oracle did $207 million of...

What's Bigger than a Googol?(Googolplex; Google)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... The precocious nine-year-old who came up with the name googol for the tremendously big number that inspired Google to call itself Google, probably in anticipation of its IPO, didn't just stop at the googol. Nope. The little dickens...

Mauritius Post To Launch Digital Divide-Jumping ISP Venture.(internet service providers)
June 14, 2004... Mauritius Post is on the threshold of setting up a new venture to provide Internet access and other online services to both consumers and businesses. Post officials said the new firm, which will be called Mauripost.Net, is being formed as...

Correos Picks Indra for IRIS Support.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... IT services provider Indra has landed a $1.23 million one-year contract from Correos, the Spanish post office, to maintain and support the post's IRIS system. Correos uses IRIS to manage the information network system of various branch...

Postbank Debuts Real-Time E-Statements.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Deutsche Post's Postbank subsidiary has enhanced its Postbank direct online financial portal to provide real-time statements and new tools. The bank says customers can now track incoming and outgoing checks to the minute. Before only the...

Deutsche Post Sets Price for Postbank IPO.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Deutsche Post says it's going to offer shares in its Postbank subsidiary for $38.78-$44.94 (31.50 euros--36.50 euros) a share. The top end of the range values Postbank, Germany's most popular retail bank, at $7.38 billion (six billion...

'Complexity' Killed World - Changing Microsoft-SAP Merger.
June 14, 2004... Knowing that the news was going to come out in the wash this week at the Oracle-PeopleSoft trial in California, Microsoft and SAP decided to hang their own laundry and put out press releases of their own Monday morning before the lawyers...

Microsoft Appeals Mario's Stern Verdict.
June 14, 2004... Microsoft filed its expected appeal of the European Commission's antitrust decision on Monday. Later this month, in a separate filing, Microsoft said it will ask the European Court of First Instance (CFI) to stay the EC's order demanding that...

Broadband Internet Causes TV Viewing To Drop.
June 14, 2004... Consumers are using broadband Internet to entertain themselves so much that they are switching off their TV sets, according to research from the British ISP Wanadoo. The research says broadband users spend 12% less time watching TV and the time...

Four Million UK Broadband Usersaand Counting.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Ofcom. the UK's telecom regulatory agency, says that there were almost four million broadband users (3.99 million) in the UK at the end of April with 40,000 new ones being added a week. DSLs, mainly British Telecom, account for 2.45 million of...

Good Ole Intel Comes Through.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Wall Street punters, who simply love to fret, were biting their nails last week over how things were going at Intel going into its mid-quarter update -- because semi sales elsewhere had turned a tad volatile and sales of PC chips appeared to be...

Wireless Broadband Comes to Market.
June 14, 2004... Cell phone legend Craig McCaw and his Clearwire company are launching a wireless broadband service based on technology from NextNet, an operation Clearwire owns. McCaw said that the service would be initially available this summer in...

Google Upgrades Search Appliance.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Google has released new versions of its search appliance, the integrated hardware/software device that lets companies, schools and government agencies deliver "Googlequality" search results on their intranets and public web sites. Google said...

Web Services Software To Reach $11b in '08.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Worldwide spending on software for web services projects will hit $11 billion by 2008 compared to $1.1 billion last year, according to IDC. IDC thinks web services are moving to the forefront of most IT departments' thinking as a critical...

Siebel Claims Demand for OnDemand.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Siebel says it's closed 175 deals for its new hosted CRM OnDemand product since the start of the second quarter including 62 new OnDemand customers.

La Poste Launches e-Registered Letters.
June 21, 2004... French postal operator La Poste has finally introduced its promised electronic registered letter service. The post briefly offered such a service in August two years ago but quickly withdrew it saying the platform wasn't strong enough. It...

Bush-Cheney '04 Uses Digital Mailroom.
June 21, 2004... The Bush-Cheney '04 re-election campaign is using Captiva Software's Digital Mailroom to process the ton of mail it gets every day. Captiva said business process outsourcing service provider Imaging Acceptance Corporation (IAC) installed...

PostX, Others Address Online Identity Theft.(Trusted Electronic Communications Forum)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2004... Secure messaging software and service provider PostX and a bunch of other companies like IBM, AT&T Wireless, Best Buy, E*Trade, Fidelity Investments, Charles Schwab and DirecTV have set up a an industry consortium to address the growing...

Correo Argentina Becomes a Corporation.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2004... Correo Argentino, the state-run Argentine postal operator, has been made a corporation in a first step to privatization. Argentinean planning minister Julio De Vido said making the post a company would give the government more flexibility in...

HP To Resell Sendmail Software.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2004... Hewlett-Packard will resell e-mail ISV Sendmail's message management software globally. Besides offering the Sendmail software through its services and consulting group, HP plans to offer it through its resellers. The Sendmail products...

USPS Transforming.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2004... "We are transforming the Postal Service to adapt to a changing world around us. The interplay between hard copy and the Internet is playing out before our eyes." US Postmaster General Jack Potter.

Microsoft CRM To Get Feature Pack.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2004... Microsoft plans to release a feature pack for its CRM 1.2 product. Due in August, Microsoft promises that it will provide deeper integration with Office 2003, support mobile users through a CRM Mobile 1.2 component and offer enhancements...

AOL Launches New Business Services.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2004... America Online has launched a thing called AIM Business Services aimed at "At Work" users. The new fee-based services include a voice conference call feature based on technology from Lightbridge and a web meeting feature that leverages...

Merrill Wants To Break Up HP...
June 21, 2004... Merrill Lynch wants to do to HP what Thomas Penfield Jackson and the Clinton-era Justice Department wanted to do to Microsoft break it up. Merrill's top research analyst Steve Milunovich issued an opinion the day before HP's analyst...

....As Carly Runs with the Bulls.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2004... HP CEO Carly Fiorina peered into her crystal ball for the benefit of Wall Street the other day and bullishly predicted that the company's per-share profits, currently dependent on its printing interests, would grow better than 20% a year for...

IBM Figures an Oracle PeopleSoft Would Cost It Millions.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2004... Gee, the Oracle trial is turning into a veritable information goldmine. After outing Microsoft's little secret about proposing merger to ERP giant SAP to fend off the proposed Oracle- PeopleSoft tie-up, it appears that IBM is sweating...

IBM Betas Masala Search.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2004... IBM is beta testing a search mechanism code named Masala a word more at home on a curry house menu than in high tech that searches a corporate intranet. Once it passes muster the widgetry will become the next version of IBM's DB2...

Cell Phones v PCs.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2004... "One day, two or three billion people will have cell phones, and they are all not going to have PCs," said Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the Palm Pilot and the chief technologist of PalmOne, in a Newsweek article. "The mobile phone will become...

73.4m DSL Broadband Subscribers Worldwide; A Third Consecutive Record-.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2004... Breaking Quarter Globally the number of DSL broadband subscribers increased by 9.5 million in the first quarter to reach 73.4 million, the largest increase ever according to the DSL Forum, which monitors phone company numbers. Q1 was the...

Symbol CEO Takes It on the Lam.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2004... Symbol Technologies CEO Tomo Razmilovic was declared a fugitive last week after his lawyer told a federal prosecutors that that he wouldn't be at his arraignment in Brooklyn on charges of overstating Symbol revenues by more than $200 million...