Archive for March, 2011
Pitney Goes to Rival for Volly President
Pitney Bowes has hired Chuck Cordray out of Hearst to be president of Volly, its yet-to-kick-off cloud-based online bill-paying venture, which is mildly interesting considering he’s going to be competing against Hearst’s own start-up bill-paying venture Manilla, which is being run by another of Hearst’s digital media executives George Kliavkoff, the first CEO of Hulu. [...]
Pitney Intros Cloud Postage
Pitney Bowes has lofted a cloud-based mailing and shipping service called pbSmartPostage that will let businesses print postage for letters and packages and run up shipping labels and tracking numbers from any PC with an Internet connection. No software downloads. No IT involvement. The company says businesses with smallish shipping volumes and remote locations will [...]
Headlines – Issue No. 526 (April 4-8, 2011)
Pitney Intros Cloud Postage Pitney Goes to Rival for Volly President USPS Announces 7,500 Job Cuts USPS’ No-Saturday Delivery Plan Stinks: PRC Royal Mail Equity Worthless Japan Post Struggling Oracle Pulls Plug on Itanium, Sets Off Big Hullabaloo Big Shots Start New Cloud Standards Body Would-Be Novell Patent Buyers Refile with German Regulators Google Finds [...]
USPS Sued for Patent Infringement
An 11-year-old Alabama company called Return Mail Inc has sued the United States Postal Service in the Court of Federal Claims charging it with infringing its patent for processing returned and undeliverable mail. It’s looking for damages. Its complaint alleges that the USPS copied its technology after meeting with the company at least five times [...]
Pitney & Bug Labs Create Secure Mobile Device Development Platform
Pitney Bowes disclosed last week that it’s been working for over a year with the open source company Bug Labs on a product Bug Labs calls BUGsecure that includes Pitney’s special tamper-proof security chip. Combined with Pitney’s’s enterprise-class management services the widgetry is meant to be a modular new high-security platform used to prototype, pilot [...]
Headlines – Issue No. 525 (March 28 – April 1, 2011)
Pitney & Bug Labs Create Secure Mobile Device Development Platform USPS Sued for Patent Infringement USPS Watching Radiation Levels Postal Euromed Formed USPS & Union Tentatively Come to Terms FedEx Performance Questionable Cloud is HP’s New Watchword Intel Making Chips for Micro Servers Android May Have Bigger IP Issues than Java Intel Says Supply Chain [...]
Denmark To Add Mobile Postage
Starting April 1 Danes will be able to text a Post Danmark 1-900 number from their mobile phones, pay the cost of first-class postage and get a unique alphanumeric code back that they will write then on their standard-size mail. Initially the service is limited to Denmark-bound letters of up to 50 grams and the [...]
Canada Posts Starts Checking Backgrounds
Canada Post has gone into the background-checking business. Canadians can now walk into their local post office and have their identity documents verified, a stipulation of employers that require that criminal records be checked. “We have the largest physical network in the country, and we recently upgraded our technology to help us provide additional services [...]
Headlines – Issue No. 524 (March 21-25, 2011)
Canada Posts Starts Checking Backgrounds Denmark To Add Mobile Postage Pageonce Claims 4 Million Users USPS To Cut 7,500 or 30,000 Stamps.com Upgrades Infor Offers $1.84 Billion for Lawson; Contest Expected Rackspace Moves Quick To Monetize OpenStack Flash Shows a White Flag DOJ Investigating MPEG LA: WSJ NetApp Buys LSI External Storage Unit for $480 [...]
Deutsche Post Sets Up Journalism Marketplace
Deutsche Post announced at the CeBIT fair in Germany late last week that it was setting up a B2B Internet marketplace or mating service for serious freelance journalists and publishers called DieRedaktion.de. The name is probably best rendered in English simply as Copy. Its inspiration seems to be that the post has delivered a newspaper [...]