Archive for the ‘La Poste’ Category
La Poste Pilots Digital ID
The French Post Office has begun a limited six-month field test of a digital identity scheme developed by a four-year-old French start-up called MyID.is. La Poste has branded the widgetry Identic. The post will issue the user’s digital identity. The process starts when the user registers at https://identic.laposte.fr and gives his full name, address and [...]
La Poste Plans To Offer Mobile Phone Service
Another national postal service has announced plans to become a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). This time it’s France’s La Poste, which, in a terse statement reported from Paris by Dow Jones, said that it’s talking exclusively with mobile operator SFR about launching a La Poste-branded service. SFR is a subsidiary of French media giant [...]
La Poste Goes into the Storage Biz
La Poste is apparently going into the storage business with a secure online service for consumers and businesses called Digiposte. It will let businesses manage, store and share their e-mail and employment contracts, electronic invoices, bank statements and pay slips in a single location. Payroll management specialist ADP is the first company to adopt Digiposte’s [...]
French Post Office Puts Money in Java Middleware Start-up
La Poste, the French Post Office, is backing eXo, a 120-man French start-up that’s doing Java middleware for cloud services. The start-up opened an office in San Francisco in October to chase the American market by leveraging its strategic partnership with Red Hat. La Poste contributed to a $6 million round through its VC arm, [...]
La Poste Looks to E-Health for Its Own Health
In the face of the unremitting decline in mail volumes, France’s La Poste is looking to diversify into e-health using the document management and security skills of its Docapost unit and Docapost subsidiary Extelia. La Poste has hooked up with the big publicly traded French IT consulting, systems integration and outsourcing house Atos Origin to [...]
La Poste Goes with Open Source ERP
France’s La Poste is switching to Compiere’s open source ERP software to replace internal systems that support its postal outlets. The postal operator will deploy Compiere Professional, the privately held US company’s commercially licensed code, in a B2B division to replace existing sales, purchasing, inventory and payment processing systems. Compiere ERP was reportedly selected for [...]
La Poste To Be Partly Privatized
La Poste, France’s state-owned post office, will be partially privatized but will only sell shares to public institutions, not the individual investor, according to French President Nicolas Sarkozy. “La Poste will change its status but will only be open to public sector capital like Caisse des Depots,” a state investment institution, Sarkozy said. Real privatization [...]