Hijackers who used insecure radio communications between trucks and their base to help them trace and rob vehicles in the Republic of Ireland later prompted the operator of the stricken vehicles to upgrade systems to a full fleet communications operation.
Read MoreUniversal Postal Union chooses AirClic to enable new postal “track and trace” serviceBlue Bell, Pennsylvania, 9 October, 2001: The Universal Postal Union, the United Nations agency overseeing the world-wide postal service, announced today that it has selected AirClic to enable a new service giving proof of delivery of international parcels and express mail (EMS) items. Using bar codes read by small scanners attached to mobile phones, postal workers will be able to increase the efficiency an…
Read MoreThe U.S. Postal Service is installing barcodes inside select mailboxes nationwide as part of effort to track and improve mail delivery service
Read MoreKorea Post (KP), the postal service arm of the Ministry of Information and Communication, said yesterday it will build a mobile mail service system by 2004 on a gradual basis. Under the plan, the government will supply personal digital assistants for around 14,000 mailpersons over the next three years,
said KP official Kwon Moon-hong. The government’s decision reflected growing fears about the proliferation of the Internet.
IEMENS DATATRAK, ThE VEHICLE position monitoring company, relaunched itself last week with
the promise of new success in the truck sector and a blistering attack on its ubiquitous rival system, GPS.
Datatrak, a unique, self-contained system that uses its own low-frequency radio masts, was developed by Securicor in the 1980s to help protect its cash transport vehicles.
Siemens, the German technology and communications giant, bought the business last
year to move into the positioning market and believes that it can make much more of the
system than Securicor did here and abroad.
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