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Comment Forget couriers. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [31 Jan 2008]
IKEA bolts on delivery tracking
News IKEA Distribution Services has rolled out a distribution track and trace system that allows couriers to update the central delivery management system from the retailer's 60 delivery vehicles. According to IKEA's UK and Benelux deputy customer... [15 Nov 2007]
Lowering the Barrier to Wireless and Mobile Experimentation
White Paper To achieve low-overhead, coarse repeatability for mobile experiments, it outlines how to leverage the predictability of passive couriers, such as PDA-equipped students and PC-equipped busses. The flexibility of Netbed's common abstractions for... [20 Jul 2007]
Pathology Lab Ensures Accuracy of Couriers, Gains Customers Through Tracking Solution
White Paper Windows Mobile powered devices enable couriers to log specimens into the system the moment they receive them. Innovative Pathology Services wanted a way to accurately track and confirm its specimen pickups. [01 May 2007]
Merck Determines Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services Improves Confidentiality of Clinical Trial Information
White Paper Without RMS, Merck delivers only hardcopy documents via express couriers to physicians. Information confidentiality is of critical importance to pharmaceutical firms. During clinical trials, Merck & Co. [08 Feb 2007]
Real-Time Booking and Dispatch Solution Makes Courier Resource Deployment More Efficient
White Paper With eighty percent of the couriers being motorcycle riders it was essential that the solution be lightweight, compact and safe and easy to use. TNT Courier provides a rapid-response package delivery service within the Greater London area. [01 Oct 2006]
Weathering Tumultuous Hurricane Season With Disaster Recovery Solution From Symantec and Juniper
White Paper Replacing an inefficient and risky process using archive tapes and air couriers, an integrated solution based on VERITAS Volume Replicator and Juniper Networks WX and WXC application acceleration platforms replicates data from the Miami data... [23 Aug 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China, 23 years on
Comment Most international communication was by telex (a precursor of fax and email), powered by a fleet of bicycle couriers at the Chinese end. Written at a Shanghai coffee shop and despatched via the free wi-fi [17 Jul 2006]
Technology gives couriers the edge on the street
News Couriers have held a strange fascination for sci-fi writers. While the internet and email have made it easy to zap a document across a city or a continent within seconds, plenty of companies still rely on couriers to shuttle vital papers and... [16 May 2006]
FedEx couriers to go wireless
News Transportation player FedEx Express plans to equip 50,000 couriers located in 60 countries with wireless devices by 2008. The handheld is able to capture signatures electronically, and couriers can access dispatch information without having to go... [25 Nov 2005]
Symbol and RangeGate Keep Deliveries on Track for Sun Couriers
White Paper Sun Couriers, one of Southern Africa's largest and most respected courier companies, deliver in excess of 19-million items per annum. To improve service to customers through up-to-date information on parcel movements, Sun Couriers have invested in... [08 Nov 2005]
Citigroup loses 3.9 million customers' data
News Kevin Kessinger, Citigroup's president of consumer finance in North America, said: "We deeply regret this incident, which occurred in spite of the enhanced security procedures we require of our couriers. [07 Jun 2005]
Talecom Case Study: Concord Couriers
White Paper T@lecom Limited's reseller, CMS, secured the contract to supply Concord Couriers of Welwyn Garden City, an extensive supplier of courier services, with it's Wireless Delivered technologies, giving them the capacity for proof of delivery and... [22 Mar 2005]
Courier Service Banks on Phones
White Paper City Couriers assists several major banks in physically moving sensitive information from one bank to another. City Courier Services approached Nextel and Westlake to design a solution to help them track and monitor transactions with their drivers... [17 Nov 2004]
Webmaster of pro-jihad sites arrested in London
News It directed couriers to carry letters saying the money they carried was from charitable donations in the United States, the agency said. The publisher of two pro-jihad websites has been arrested in London on suspicion of terrorism-related... [09 Aug 2004]
