Archive for the ‘Swiss Post’ Category
Swiss Post Sells Post Box License
The Swiss Post has sold its first license to its digital letterbox, its branded version of Earth Class Mail’s scanned mail, to the Isle of Man Post, which Swiss Post sees as a jumping-off point for the rest of Britain. The Isle of Man, which will start peddling the thing at the end of July, [...]
RPost Files Another Suit Against Swiss Post, Says It Ain’t Kidding
RPost, which is already suing Swiss Post for the second time in the United States, has upped the ante. Its British arm, RPost UK Ltd, has lodged suit against Swiss Post on its home turf in Switzerland. This time the Los Angeles-based Registered Email merchant is charging the state-owned agency with willfully infringing two of [...]
Swiss Post’s Got Siemens Peddling ECM
Swiss Post has got Siemens Mobility co-marketing what Siemens calls Trust-Ebox but under the covers it’s really Earth Class Mail’s widgetry for converting physical mail into electronic mail. Swiss Post has been using Earth Class Mail (ECM) for its Swiss Post Box product and negotiated a license letting it sell the product to other European [...]
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 [...]
Swiss Post Takes Another Whack at IncaMail, But Does It Infringe?
The Swiss Post says that IncaMail, the secure e-mail service it yanked out of the US market earlier this year after RPost lodged a patent and trademark infringement suit, meets the requirements for electronic correspondence with Swiss authorities and that it’s in the final stages of being approved as a secure delivery platform by the [...]
Swiss Post Bank Target of Wiki War
Even before WikiLeaks mastermind Julian Assange got hauled off to Wandsworth Prison in southwest London Tuesday ahead of an extradition hearing, vigilantes acting in support of his rogue site started unleashing a torrent of punishing denial of service attacks on the financial institutions that had turned the spigot off on the donations WikiLeaks needs to [...]
PayPal Turns Off WikiLeaks Spigot; Swiss Post Now Near New Epicenter
WikiLeaks has lost its PayPal account. The eBay unit stopped handling contributions to the rogue site that has thrown a huge monkey wrench into American diplomacy – and diplomacy in general – a late Friday night citing unacceptable use. PayPal said on its blog that it “has permanently restricted the account used by Wikileaks due [...]
Swiss Post Backs Computer Literacy
Swiss Post is working with Microsoft to raise Swiss computer skills and, in turn, strengthen the country’s digital economy. They are making a series of free online beesmart training modules available to encourage people to work productively with PCs and the Internet. They are particularly interested in preparing young adults for the workforce. Eventually Swiss [...]
Swiss Post Tries Skirting RPost Patents
The government-owned Swiss Post, forced out of the American registered e-mail market when RPost sued it for patent and trademark infringement, says it’s going to try to re-architect its IncaMail service so it doesn’t step on RPost’s toes anymore. Basically it’s the only way the post can salvage its European IncaMail business because RPost has [...]
RPost Chips Away at Snail Mail & Couriers
RPost, the e-mail proof outfit that’s suing Swiss Post for patent and trademark infringement, spooking Swiss Post into pulling its IncaMail secure communications platform off the market, has released a new E-Contracting solution. The company claims the widgetry, a combination of elements of its upgraded eSignOff electronic signature and its Registered Email legal delivery proof [...]