Archive for the ‘Weekly Headlines’ Category

Headlines – Issue No. 565 (February 6-10, 2012)

Deutsche Post, bpost To Fight EC Order To Give Back Subsidies Royal Mail Moves Toward Privatization USPS Reportedly Pushing Real Mail Notification Facebook To File for Massive IPO: WSJ Amazon Goes After Enterprise Data HP Commits to webOS Release Schedule Google & MMI Seek US Ban of iPhone 4S & iCloud Apple’s a WOW! Tucci’s [...]

Headlines – Issue No. 564 (January 30-February 3, 2012)

USPS Contract Talks Collapse SingPost Buys Novation Solutions E-Boks Appears a Raging Success EC May Order Return of Postal Subsidies Escher Part of Saudi Post Modernization An Post E-Bill System Registers 50,000 Users USPS Certifies Abaq.us GPS Location Service S&P Downgrades Ozzie Post Microsoft’s New Cloudware Could Cast a Shadow over VMware AWS Offers Free [...]

Headlines – Issue 563 (January 23-27, 2012)

Court Finds RPost Patent Valid EC Intent on Creating a Single Digital Market in Europe Pressure To Suppress Paper Mail Mounts RPost Claims To Create a New Class of Mobile Messaging USPS Apple App Scans Shipping Labels Verizon To Keep USPS Communicating Aquilent Gets Contract To Support USPS.com Daily Operations Oracle Goes to Cloudera for [...]

Headlines – Issue No. 561 (december 24, 2011)

Another US Start-Up Wants To Replace the Post Office Spanish Post Goes Cloud Online Bill Paying Eats Away at US Mail USPS Puts Closures on Hold USPS: Poor But Proud UK Counter System Crashed on Busiest Day of the Year DHL Delivers Groceries Swiss Post Solutions Opens Document Processing Center in New York Deutsche Post [...]

Headlines – Issue No. 560 (December 19-23, 2011)

USPS To Make Snail Mail Live Up to its Name Royal Mail’s Site on the Blink RPost App Closes Gap in Vaunted BlackBerry Security EquaShip Completes $1.5 Million Funding Round USPS-Union Negotiations Run into Overtime Again Deutsche Post CEO Holds Out Little Hope for Royal Mail Bill.com Raises $15.5 D Round Deutsche Post Loses Bid [...]

Headlines – Issue No. 559 (December 12-16, 2011)

Google Wants To Be a Shipper Volly Picks Up Some Heft USPS Hires Restructuring Expert NZ Post & China Post Reportedly Team on E-Commerce Oz Post Tantalizes with Specter of Telecom Future Survey Indicates Free Shipping on the Rise Deutsche Post To Kill Unit Rather than Up Prices Deadline on USPS Contract Negotiations Looms Oz [...]

Headlines – Issue No. 558 (November 28 – December 9, 2011)

OIG Sees USPS as Zumbox Biller Signs Up for Both Zumbox & Manilla USPS Confirms Losses Austria Post Turns E-Bill Aggregator British Government Reportedly Contemplating Sale of Royal Mail Assets DHL Develops Box for High-Tech Shipments Site Tracks Ship-for-Free Items on eBay Itella Wants To Open More Mail Eesti Post Fined for Being Unfair to [...]

Headlines – Issue No. 557 (November 25-29, 2011)

EquaShip Makes USPS Shipping More Attractive Zumbox Ties Up with CCS USPS Temporarily Shelves Closures PostLogistics Implements GeoRoute Itella Logistics To Implement Kewill Software UPS To Hire 55,000 People for Christmas Rush RPost Debuts Integrated Security, Legal & Document Services for Microsoft Outlook Amazon Tipped To Buy webOS Rackspace Productizes OpenStack Disk Drive Crisis Worsens [...]

Headlines – Issue No. 556 (November 14-18, 2011)

eBay Organizing USPS Price Hike Protest IBM To Integrate E-Postbrief into Lotus Notes Another Plan To Stop the USPS ‘Financial Death Spiral’ Doxo Signs AT&T Pitney Lines Up Another Volly Alliance Britain Makes Opting Out of Junk Mail Easier Canadian Mediator Quits Arm Cracks the Code on 64-Bits AMD To Fire 1,400 HP Starts the [...]

Headlines – Issue No. 555 (November 7-11, 2011)

Italian Post To Hawk Clouds IMS To Peddle Pitney’s Volly Belgian Post Eyes Chinese E-Commerce Q4 Depends of US Appetite for Widgetry: UPS FedEx Predicts Record Xmas Parcels Deutsche Post Creates Chief Commercial Officer Role Hermes Goes to Vodafone for Next-Gen Mobile Widgets FedEx Adds LTL to its Online Solutions Stamps.com Posts Record Results IBM [...]