Tag: Worldwide

How UPS went from low-tech to an IT power

Posted by | Jul 24, 2006 | |

Mr. Barnes, the 52-year-old senior vice president and chief information officer at United Parcel Service Inc., oversees a division of 4,700 employees that develops much of the company’s software, services an Internet site that draws 18.5 million visitors a day, maintains 8,700 servers and monitors 15 massive mainframes capable of processing millions of instructions per second. And he gets to spend more than $1 billion a year to do it.

Promoted 19 months ago from vice president of information-technology development for customer and operations applications, Mr. Barnes is guiding a massive implementation of computer-driven automation, Web-site enhancements and other innovations designed to wring more efficiency from a famously proficient network, which moves an average of 15 million packages a day across the world.

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Bull acquires Postal Automation Business from Business Objects

Posted by | Jul 20, 2006 | |

Bull today announced that it has acquired the former Firstlogic, Inc. postal automation software business, based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, from Business Objects Americas. Business Objects retains the former Firstlogic data quality business. In addition, Business Objects retains the former Firstlogic Commercial Mail division, which develops software to support direct and commercial mail printers, publishers and distributors.

Bull’s subsidiary, AddressVision Inc., will provide Postal Automated Software Solutions for Government and Commercial Delivery Companies in the U.S. and abroad.

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Government plans for lorry road-user charging in the UK: a critique and an alternative

Posted by | Jul 20, 2006 | |

The British government was planning to introduce a system of road-user charging for lorries in 2008. In July 2005, it decided to abandon these
plans and incorporate the development of a charging scheme for trucks into a future road pricing system for all categories of traffic. This paper
examines the objectives of the proposed lorry road-user charging scheme in the UK and argues that the government’s plans for LRUC would have
been inappropriate. An alternative method of road-user charging for lorries is proposed which would meet the main objectives of LRUC at much
lower cost, disruption and risk and act as an interim measure until it is possible, technically and politically, to introduce general road pricing in the
UK.

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It is time to think about improvement in postal services

Posted by | Jul 17, 2006 | |

Gone are the days when messenger pigeons would take a flight and carry a letter to its destination. These pigeons were in use in the United States of America and Europe. Tales of their intelligence and sense of responsibility are common in the Indo-Pak subcontinent. In this part of the world mostly lover would use pigeon to do the needful.

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