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 Post Signs for Salesforce Service Cloud
Egnyte Says You Can Dump Your FTP Servers Now
RIM Enters the Once Unthinkable MDM Market
HP Mates Autonomy & Vertica
HP Wants Third Parties Selling its Cloudware
Apple Reportedly Broadens its Samsung Injunction Horizons
Cisco, Google & VMware Back Puppet Labs
Microsoft Reportedly Moving Office to the iPad
Injunction May Lock HTC Smartphones Out of Germany
Microsoft Updates Office 365
Evidently Somebody’s Going to Buy Cotendo
Massive Facebook IPO Apparently on the Runway
Cisco Says Cloud Traffic Will Be Up 12x by 2015
Yahoo Reportedly Entertaining Offers
Samsung Gets Australian Tablet Injunction Overturned
Chrome Browser Close To Displacing Firefox
HP Denies Millions of Printers Can Be Hacked
OIG Sees USPS as Zumbox
The USPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is back with a fourth white paper telling the USPS to go digital.
This one basically says the post office should ape the start-up Zumbox and set up an e-mail service called “eMailbox” that incorporates the .post domain and a highly secure data storage service called “eLockbox” where folks can archive important legal and personal documents.
It envisions the Postal Service “providing a digital service linking every American household and business in a secure, private communications network designed with anywhere, anytime accessibility.”
“Out of 23 major industrialized countries, the US Postal Service,” it says reproachfully, “is one of a shrinking number of postal operators that do not offer such a product to its citizens,” reflecting that the USPS has potent protections to share under federal law and its Address Management System (AMS) and National Change of Address System (NCOA) databases to contribute to the inexorable digital migration.
It figures “these could be leveraged to support a potential third ‘eMailbox database’ linking an e-mail address to a physical address…. The linking of the eMailbox holder’s identity to the eMailbox address and their physical address would transform both addresses into a possible high-assurance identifier suitable for transactions that require privacy, confidentiality, authentication and non-repudiation, such as financial and legal correspondence.”
Zumbox, of course, is the only entity to have tied e-mail addresses to physical addresses.
OIG imagines “advertising mail would only be allowed from entities registered with the Postal eMailbox system and with the consent of the receiver.”
Like Zumbox, it conceives of consumers ultimately going paperless.
It says “Most postal operators and companies offer a sender-pays type pricing model with significant discounts to mailers based on volumes and free service to consumers. Other pricing models include charging the same or a reduced price as compared to First-Class Mail single-piece prices.”
It conceives of the eLockbox as a “subfolder of the eMailbox, with additional security for the purpose of archiving important legal and personal documents, and can be accessed, via a smartphone for example, and transmitted quickly when needed, such as in a medical emergency.
The eLockbox may require a monthly subscription fee, with a basic level of storage offered as part of the subscription. Add-ons such as expanded storage, lifetime archiving and other premium services are offered for a supplemental fee.”
The OIG’s vision provides for hybrid mail.
See http://www.uspsoig.gov/foia_files/RARC-WP-12-003.pdf.
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 Itella
Deutsche Post Ordered To Raise ‘Predatory’ Prices
Son of Famous Father To Chair USPS Board of Governors
UPS To Raise Rates
DHL Creates New Post
Adobe Sends Flex to the Apache Foundation
Big Data Bug Bites GE
HP Puts Activist Shareholder on Board
Samsung Modifies Galaxy Tab To Frustrate Apple Ban
Warren Buffet Buys 5.5% of IBM
Buffet Buys Intel Too
Amazon To Rent Out Supercomputers
Apprenda Upgrades its .NET Private PaaS
AMD Delivers 16-Core Chip
AMD To Chase the High-Volume 1U Market
Steve Jobs’ Two Empires Meet in Apple’s Boardroom
Dell’s Lack of Fanbois Hits its Numbers
Zuora Raises $36 Million To Push into Europe
HP Goes into the Ultrabook Biz
Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet Ships Early
Birst Intros Cloud-Based Mobile BI SDK for iPad
ScrumWorks Agile Widgetry Goes SaaS
Fancy That, an ARM Supercomputer
HTC Reportedly Working on Quad-Core ARM Tablet
Nokia Win 8 Tablet Due in June
Globalfoundries Scraps Middle East Expansion Plans
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
Oracle Bills Solaris 11 as ‘First Cloud OS’
OpSource Offers Oracle Database, SQL Server & SharePoint On-Demand
Azul Stops Being Agnostic, Gets that Old Time ‘Come to Linux’ Call
Adobe To Restructure, Let 750 Go, Can Mobile Flash
NetApp Teams with Cloudera on Turnkey Storage Device
EC Investigating Samsung for FRAND Abuse
Motorola Mobility Gets Sweeping Injunction against Apple
Cloudera Gets $40 Million
Move Over, Best Buy’s Getting on the Cloud
Amazon Sets Up Cheaper West Coast Region
Google Appeals To Protect Compromising E-Mail
Fedora 16 Out
The Restless & Impatient Could Make Hostile Bid for Yahoo
LC Licenses IV Patents
Samsung Windows 8 Slates Due in 2H12
Apple Ordered To Turn Over its Carrier Contracts to Samsung
Schmidt Not Quite Believable
IBM To Integrate E-Postbrief into Lotus Notes
Deutsche Post has gotten IBM Germany to integrate its E-Postbrief into Lotus Notes groupware, Blue’s business e-mail software.
In the future, users who want to send and receive work as an E-Postbrief and are connected to the E-Postbrief gateway do it in Lotus Notes. They can also send electronic registered letters without leaving their accustomed IT environment.
IBM will pitch E-Postbrief as part of its consulting and integration projects to customers.
Martina Koederitz, general manager of IBM Germany, said, “E-Postbrief fits really well with our comprehensive consulting and integration approach. Using it saves money, and it integrates and accelerates communications processes. And that is precisely what our customers expect from us.”
SAP, the big German software house, is also integrating the Deutsche Post widgetry for confidential, identity-insured electronic communications into its business platform using SAP Information Interchange by Crossgate.
Officially an SAP Solution Extension, SAP Information Interchange by Crossgate is a so-called B2B Content Engine that lets companies exchange electronic purchase orders, forecasts, invoices, delivery alerts and other documents directly from their SAP applications, eliminating the need for legacy B2B translators and EDI mapping tools. That means E-Postbrief will piggyback on a B2B communications platform that currently links more than 40,000 companies worldwide including Audi, BMW and BASF.
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 Wheels Spinning To Roll Out ARM Servers
Start-Up Turns ARM Chip into a Palm-Sized Server
Cloud Spend Tracker Goes to Open Beta
ForeScout Intros NAC-as-a-Service Platform for MSPs
Samsung Wants iPhone 4S Source Code
WikiLeaks Founder Ordered Extradited
Lenovo Earnings Up 88%
The iPad 3’s Not the iPad 3: Digitimes
IMS To Peddle Pitney’s Volly
IMS, otherwise known as Immediate Mailing Services Inc, says it’s signed a strategic alliance agreement to resell Pitney Bowes’ still sight-unseen Volly opt-in cloud-based digital delivery service to its financial, medical, retail and collection customers.
It said, “We evaluated the Volly service and felt it truly has the ability to be transformative in people’s lives. We believe this platform will enhance our assortment of products focused on improving customer communications.”
Volly, when it gets here, is supposed to let US users receive, view and organize statements, direct marketing, catalogs, coupons and pay bills from multiple providers using a single consolidation service.
It will compete with doxo, Zumbox and manilla.com.
Pitney recently claimed 18 strategic alliance agreements with large third-party mailers for the delayed Volly. They reportedly send out billions of mail pieces annually for the automotive, banking, brokerage, credit union, direct mail, financial services, government, health care, insurance, mutual fund, payroll, retail, telecommunications and utility industries.
At the time Pitney indicated it needed more mailers to capture the attention of the American consumer so it pushed Volly’s market entry back six months.
Consumers can already get their bills direct from billers in their regular e-mail accounts.
IMS is an integrated SAS70 Type II-compliant provider for document, electronic and mail communication services
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 Names a Woman CEO
HP Going with ARM Servers
HP To Keep PC Division
OPC Formalized with a Foundation
Jobs Vowed To Destroy Android
Kindle Fire Burns Amazon
Nexenta Gets into VDI
Facebook To Build Date Center Near Arctic Circle
Oracle Buys RightNow for $1.5 Billion
Half of All Android Licensees Now Paying Off Microsoft
SaaS House Workday Picks Up an $85 Million Round
Oracle-Google Trial Slips into Next Year
Hadoop Start-Up Gets $9.5 Million
Google Eyes Yahoo Again
IBM & Jaspersoft Pair Up on Big Data
WikiLeaks Stops Leaking To Raise Money
HTC Import Ban Now in Doubt
Meg Doesn’t Seem To Have Enough To Do
Rim PlayBook Upgrade Delayed Four Months
Android Bites Apple
Apple Rustles Yahoo Datacenter Chief
Deutsche Post To Offer Publishers Online Web Analytics
Deutsche Post is going to start offering publishers online web analytics.
The service is coming from Deutsche Post’s Press Services business unit and nugg.ad, Europe’s largest online targeting platform, which Deutsche Post acquired a year ago. Deutsche Post’s online subscription service Leserservice (Reader Service) will also offer targeted online marketing.
Lutz Glandt, head of the Press Services unit, said, “nugg.ad enriches our web analytics with completely anonymous socio-demographic statistics. This will enable publishers in the future to get a much more precise feel for which marketing options work the best for the different target groups. The product is an effective way for publishers to minimize waste coverage in the area of subscription marketing and to design their online marketing strategy as efficiently as possible.”
“Starting now,” Glandt went on, “we are not only offering our publishers subscription services, but also relevant statistical information, which combined with user data can be very helpful in optimizing the various forms of online marketing.”
Stephan Noller, CEO of nugg.ad, explained, “Since the technical re-launch of the online shop at www.leserservice.de in April, publishers and their marketing agencies have been enjoying the latest features available to make their dialog with customers more efficient. As of now, Internet users can be analyzed in real-time and categorized into a particular target group.”
Deutsche Post and nugg.ad are promising all user data will be strictly protected. The Press Services unit sees itself as the link between publishers and their customers.
Axel Springer AG, the big German publisher, whose titles include Die Welt and Bild, the largest circulation paper in Europe, is using Nugg.ad’s personalized content-targeting techniques on a new unnamed news portal that’s still in prototype but should be out by Christmas. It will reportedly aggregate content from all Springer titles. The Nugg’s targeting technology has previously been used for advertising.
Headlines – Issue No. 554 (October 31 – November 4, 2011)
Deutsche Post To Offer Publishers Online Web Analytics
Swiss Post Acquires New Customers for Post SuisseID
Itella Looking at Teaming with VR Group
Austria Post Acquires Piece of PostMaster
Hoping for a Job-Saving Miracle, USPS Union Calls in the Cavalry
USPS To Raise Prices
Deutsche Post Reselling Updated US NCOA
Swiss Post ‘State-of-the Art’ Post Office Opens
HP & Microsoft Take On Oracle
It’s All Over Between Dell & EMC
HP Dumps Robison
The Great Oracle v Google Android Trial Postponed Indefinitely
Android Phones & Tablets Get Common OS
Disk Drive Supplies Threatened by Thai Floods
Fooled Ya, Fooled Ya: Intel
Oracle To Buy Endeca
Microsoft Hangs in There
Dropbox Gets Cloud-Size $250 Million B Round
Apple Did Just Fine; It’s Wall Street That Flubbed
New RIM OS Debuts
VMware Expects a Rocky 2012
Gates To Be Called in Novell Antitrust Suit against Microsoft
HTC Loses ITC Case against Apple
IBM Revenues Short
Samsung Tries To Stop iPhone 4S Sales in Oz & Japan
Microsoft Reportedly Teaming for Another Run at Yahoo
Otellini Was as Stunned as the Rest of Us
Start-Up Putting Android Apps on Windows Gets Strategic Funding
Vertica To Tempt with Free Community Edition
eEye Claims First Vulnerability Management Solution for Virtualized Apps
‘Magical Thinking’ May Have Killed Steve Jobs
AMD Claims It Owns S3 Patents
iPads To Be Made in Brazil