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Jackpot Factory's All Slots Online Casino Offers Postepay to Italian Players

Posted by | Oct 31, 2007 | |

The Jackpot Factory (www.jackpotfactory.com), a leading online casino group known for first-rate customer support and a wealth of games, announced the introduction of Postepay to their list of preferred and trusted payment options to buy and withdraw casino credits for Italian players at All Slots Online Casino (http://it.allslots.com).

With more than 9 million users in Italy, Postepay is a prepaid rechargeable Visa Electron card, issued by Poste Italiane. The key to the success of this card is the simplicity of use and accessibility of purchase and funding the card in any post office in the country.

“This is a real breakthrough because it will truly enhance the overall player experience for our Italian players,” said David Brickman, Spokesperson for the Jackpot Factory. “We worked very hard to implement this new payment option for All Slots, and we are sure that Italian players are going to enjoy our efforts. This is a giant leap in making the Italian player feel confident about our online casinos.”

Since the launch of its Italian casino in May 2007, All Slots Casino has dedicated its efforts in providing Italian players with a complete Italian gaming experience, which includes 24/7 customer support, website, and casino software in Italian.

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UK Mail Awards 2007 winners announced

Posted by | Oct 31, 2007 | |

Once again top executives connected to the postal industry waited with bated breath on Tuesday night to see if their year’s hard work would be recognised and rewarded in front of 300 of their peers. The winners of the prestigious 2007 UK Mail Awards were announced at the annual gala dinner in London, attended by many of the leading representatives from the UK’s postal industry.

This was the fourth presentation ceremony of the Mail Awards, designed to recognise and reward best practice, across all parts of the industry. Entries were open to any UK-based postal operator, service provider or mailing agency. Presenting the awards at the Novotel London West, under eight different categories, was diving explorer and adventure journalist, Monty Halls.

All awards were selected by a distinguished panel of judges, independent of the sponsors and organisers, who met on Monday, the day before the ceremony itself, to determine the winning application from the many entries received in each category.

The winners of the UK Mail Awards 2007 are:

Corporate Social Responsibility – sponsored by Triangle
CitySprint for its Environmental Programme

Database Management – sponsored by Royal Mail
Datalytics for its EMAP Consumer Media (ECM) Subscription Retention project

Digital Print
WDMP for its Thomson Holidays – Anniversary Mailing

Downstream Access – sponsored by Royal Mail Wholesale
UK Mail

Innovation – sponsored by PA Consulting Group
Royal Mail for its Personalised Integrated Media (PIM) campaign powered by Sony DADC

Marketing Campaign – sponsored by Citipost
Royal Mail for its Stoplateness campaign

Mail Centre of the Year – sponsored by UK Mail
Bradford Mail Centre

Technology – sponsored by ME news
BFPO for its e-bluey technology

The organisers, Triangle, would like to publicly congratulate the winners, and also thank all the people and companies in the postal industry who entered, sponsored, judged and attended this year’s UK Mail Awards.

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Melissa Data Offers Free Service to Get Holiday Cards and Gifts Delivered on Time

Posted by | Oct 30, 2007 | |

Melissa Data, a data quality software and services provider, announced its free Internet-based Address LookUp search tool that is available for mailers who want to ensure timely delivery of cards, gifts and letters during the heavy holiday mailing season.

“Our lifestyles are busier than ever and the importance we place on holiday greetings has grown,” said Ray Melissa, president of Melissa Data. “It’s a once-in-a-year chance to share news about our families and to hear from loved ones – and the best way to make sure you connect this year is to verify addresses before you mail.”

Mailers can access the Address LookUp tool by visiting http://www.melissadata.com/lookups to verify addresses and ZIP® codes before sending holiday greetings and gifts. The tool will even add the correct ZIP + 4® code to the verified address for faster mail processing and delivery.

The Address LookUp is one of 30 different free LookUps available 24/7 from Melissa Data. The LookUps are so popular that more than 55,000 visitors use them every day. And during the holiday season the number of LookUp users triples.

Once addresses are verified, Melissa Data encourages users to plan for cut-off dates for holiday mailings.

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UPS board ok's USD 2 billion stock buyback

Posted by | Oct 30, 2007 | |

United Parcel Service Inc., the world’s largest shipping carrier, said Tuesday in a regulatory filing its board authorized the company to buy back up to $2 billion in stock.
The authorization replaces the about USD 50 million that remains available under the February share repurchase authorization of USD 2 billion, the company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

UPSsaid it will purchase stock from time to time on the open market or in private transactions. The program has no time limit.

The Atlanta company has about 1.06 billion shares outstanding.

Shares of UPS have traded between USD 68.66 and USD 79.72 over the past 52 weeks and closed down 35 cents at USD 74.75.

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Small Business Leaders Say Economy, Healthcare Should Be Top Priorities

Posted by | Oct 30, 2007 | |

The leaders of America’s small- and mid-sized businesses work long hours, worry about keeping up with the latest technology and aren’t sure whether they should be concerned about the future supply of skilled workers. A new survey shows they also think the economy and healthcare reform are the nation’s most pressing problems.

The inaugural “UPS Business Monitor – United States,” a survey sponsored by UPS and conducted by the marketing insight firm TNS, interviewed 600 managers and owners of small- and mid-sized enterprises (SME) around the country. The Monitor’s first report earlier this month focused on business and trade issues, finding most SMEs have failed to explore sales opportunities outside the United States.

The latest results focus on technology and political issues. More than half of those surveyed want to see stricter immigration laws – even though they say such laws wouldn’t have much impact on their own business. Almost 40 pct say they believe the shift in congressional control to the Democrats will have a “negative impact” on their business. Those surveyed also said they don’t think America’s image in the world would be helped much by electing either a woman or African-American president.

And while they’re bullish on their own individual businesses, only one-third say they expect to add more employees over the coming year.

Among the findings of the wide-ranging survey:

– SME decision-makers work an average of 53 hours a week, with one-third (34 pct) working 60 hours or more.
– Some 59 pct say their top technology worry is just keeping up with the pace of technological change, although 53 pct also worry about Internet security breaches.
– Cell phones are clearly considered the most-needed technology device.
– The respondents are evenly split – 49 pct ‘no,’ 46 pct ‘yes’ – when asked if they expect difficulty in the future finding skilled employees.

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Intec signs pan-European data mediation deal with DHL

Posted by | Oct 30, 2007 | |

Intec, a global provider of business and operations support systems (BSS/OSS), has successfully completed the first phase of a pan-European convergent data mediation project at DHL, an express and logistics company.

As part of a long term agreement signed this year with DHL s parent holding company, Deutsche Post World Net, Intec has entered the non-telecom data mediation market in Europe by delivering an integrated solution to DHL.

The project combines the Intec Mediation platform with Intec CEMS (Centralised Error Management System), providing the courier company with a unified platform that can gather, process and distribute its shipping records in real-time, while also checking and identifying information errors that could potentially lead to revenue losses.

Intec informed that the first phase of the project has successfully concluded with DHL s operations in Belgium going live with the platform in August 2007.

DHL plans to roll out Intec s combined mediation and error management system across twenty-four other European countries by the end of the year. The server hosting the mediation platform is based at DHL s IT centre in the Czech Republic.

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Good performance for Swiss Post

Posted by | Oct 30, 2007 | |

In the first three quarters of 2007, Swiss Post generated Group profit of 699 million Swiss francs. This is an increase of 98 million francs year-on-year. Almost all units contributed to the good result, albeit to varying degrees.
In the first nine months of 2007, Swiss Post beat the previous year’s result by 16.3 pct. As at 30 September 2007 Group profit came to CHF 699 million (2006: CHF 601 million). Almost all segments at Swiss Post contributed to the profit, albeit to varying degrees.
Compared with 2006, operating income rose by CHF 675 million (11.9%) to CHF 6,334 million. PostFinance, PostLogistics, Swiss Post International and New Business (MailSource and GHP Group) contributed to the growth in earnings. The share of New Business in the operating income rose from 3.1% to 7%. The effect of acquisitions on operating income amounted to 249 million francs. At CHF 415 million, investments, which mainly went into the new letter centres, were generally above the previous year’s level (CHF 318 million) and were completely financed by Swiss Post’s own funds.

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Developing Countries' Postal Service Needs to be accommodated

Posted by | Oct 30, 2007 | |

Indonesia suggested that members of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) accommodate the service that is applied in developing countries in order to simplify postal shipment among countries. The suggestion was conveyed during the postal regulator meeting conference, which is now ongoing in Switzerland.

Director General of Post and Telecommunication at the Information and Communication Department, Basuki Yusuf Iskandar, said that standard postal service among UPU country members is not equal. “This condition cause difficulties in postal shipment to the destination,” said Basuki in Jakarta last week.

The matter of shipment and standards must be made more comprehensive. Creating these standards became an important issue in the meeting. Acting as the UPU Administrative Council member, Indonesia conveyed the suggestion. “We hope that the conference listens to the voice of a developing country,” said Basuki.

Basuki explained, the standard comprises three types of shipments: physical dimensions (letter and goods shipment), electronic dimensions (shipment via e-mail), and financial dimension (money transfer by electronic transaction).

According to Post & Telecommunication Directorate General’s spokesperson, Gatot S. Dewa Broto, although there has not been any standard applied, the postal condition in Indonesia still has many things to repair. Post in Indonesia is still manual as it hasn’t postal equipment used in other countries.

In addition, shipment service in Indonesia still has many impediments. Thus, PT Pos Indonesia must be aggressive and innovative in their activities. “The impediment level is still high in the link or network between terminals. If we want to develop, we should be able to reduce the delay level,” said Gatot.

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