Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt today saw for herself how a revolutionary new programme will transform the local Post Office into a hi-tech information centre, with advice available at the touch of a button. The programme is to be piloted across Leicestershire over the next six months.
Read MoreDigital identities providing electronic signatures to every UK consumer
are set to be distributed through the Post Office branch network from
early next year. Industry observers believe the initiative, which follows a similar
scheme launched in Ireland last week, could boost consumer confidence
in e-commerce.
A Colorado company that’s helping Canada and Sweden perfect the world’s first virtual postal services has secured $22.8 million in new funding to help sell its technology in the U.S. NETdelivery Corp. of Boulder, Colo., has finally closed the Series C round after almost a year of negotiations. The company, which has raised about $40 million since 1995, closed the first part of the round in November but kept it open until recently in response to investor interest.
Read MoreDeutsche Post AG, the German post office operator, is to launch an
electronic stamp service in about four weeks’ time. The idea behind
the move was to help small and medium-sized companies which did not
want to spend money on franking machines but needed franking
services, but 25,000 applications, some from large companies, have
so far been made to Deutsche Post for internet stamps. Christian
Brockert of Deutsche Post said there was also a surprisingly high
number of individuals who had applied for the service.
Arcot Systems, Inc., the leading provider of solutions for securing e-business in Internet-scale, transactional and wireless environments, today announced that it has signed a deal with Post.Trust, the e-security division of Ireland’s national postal service An Post, to distribute Arcot digital identities. These identities are validated through face-to-face verification as part of the Post.Trust certification process.
In the future this technology could see digital identities (ArcotID(tm)) provided to the entire population of 4 million
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