Archive for the ‘Canada Post’ Category
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 [...]
RPost Sues Swiss & Canada Posts
RPost, the Registered Email merchant, has sued Swiss Post and Canada Post for patent infringement. Both state-owned institutions have been charged with infringing the same 2001 patent separately in different venues. RPost claims Swiss Post’s IncaMail secure e-mail service and Canada Post’s like-minded PosteCS infringe its US Patent No. 6,182,219 entitled “Apparatus and Method for [...]
Canada Post To Compete with Google
Canada Post has launched a Comparison Shopper web site meant to help Canadians find, compare and purchase products online. The site uses a ranking system that filters through four million products from 500 brand-name retailers that sell to Canadians. The patent-pending system evaluates criteria like price, return policies and customer service to determine which retailer [...]
Canada Post To Anchor a Newfangled Online Ad Network
Canada Post will be going into the direct marketing business next month with an online e-commerce outfit called CentrSource that’s got a pay-as-you-go platform for delivering time-sensitive local advertising offers, sales promotions and coupons from national brands as well as neighborhood merchants. CentrSource apparently had a couple of false starts and a soft launch in [...]
Malicious E-mails Spread to Canada Post
The malicious botnet virus spread by a bogus e-mail from the Royal Mail has hopped the pond and is now spreading in Canada because of an equally bogus e-mail from the Canadian Post. In both cases the identity-stealing Trojan, called both Zeus and Zbot, makes use of the /launch command feature in Adobe’s PDF architecture [...]