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Shipping Company Abandons Open Source Software for Integrated E-Mail and Operating System
White Papers Leading Baltic shipping company Lisco Baltic Service, which has cargo and passengers ferry lines from Lithuania to Germany, Sweden and Russia, decided to update its ageing Open Source IT infrastructure.
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
Shipping Company Halves Data Backup Time, Lowers Costs, Boosts Dependability
White Papers Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) USA is a subsidiary of a Geneva, Switzerland - based shipping company that operates 352 container vessels worldwide. The 10-person MSC USA IT infrastructure staff manages the data, computers, and network for 1...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Shipping is expensive across borders
Talkback I am in Greece where many items are more expensive but savings are often cancelled by very high shipping charges. Where postal service is used, delivery times are in weeks rather than days.
[October 26, 2009, 15:56]
Shipping Firm With 5 Terabytes of Data Deploys SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring
White Papers As second largest container ship line in the world, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) relies on its 5-terabyte database that tracks more than 15 billion transactions a year. With annual growth of 30 percent and an ever-more data requests from...
[January 1, 2007, 0:00]
Shipping Test Examines RFID Label Durability
White Papers With vendor charge-backs for unreadable RFID labels an impending likelihood, concerns about RFID label durability during the shipping process are substantial. However, despite the prevalence of in-house laboratory testing that can quickly validate...
[November 23, 2006, 0:00]
Intel stops shipping faulty server chip
News Intel has stopped shipping its top-end server chip because of a bug that could cause servers to crash. Intel began shipping the chip, the Pentium III Xeon with 2MB of high-speed "cache" memory, in March.
[July 11, 2001, 9:06]
Networking Academy Program Launches Singapore Shipping Coordinator Into Promising New IT Career
White Papers The routine of his job as coordinator for a shipping company was boring, and his job satisfaction was very low. At 38 years of age, Khor Kean Hock was in a job that was going nowhere. With the encouragement and support of his wife, he decided to...
[April 13, 2007, 1:01]
DB2 UDB Log Shipping in a Disaster Recovery Solution
White Papers This paper addresses the database implementation and support issues in an environment that uses Log Shipping, PPRC - XD (Peer to Peer Remote Copy Extended Distance) and FlashCopy in order to provide remote standby databases.
[April 21, 2007, 1:00]
Google patents data centre in a shipping container
News Google has patented the idea of putting a complete data centre in a shipping container. According to the technology columnist, Robert X Cringley, Google first mooted the idea of installing a data centre in a shipping container two years ago, but he...
[October 11, 2007, 18:04]
MS appeals injunction, offers shipping options
News While seeking an appeals hearing, Microsoft will comply with Judge Jackson's injunction by offering PC makers three options: They can ship the same version of Windows 95 they have been shipping all along with IE integrated if they choose; they can...
[December 16, 1997, 14:50]
Microsoft SQL Server 2000: Using Log Shipping
White Papers In this session we will discuss various aspects of the log shipping component of SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. We will examine the following aspects of SQL Server log shipping: setup, monitoring, modifying parameters, security configuration...
[November 11, 2003, 23:00]
Photos: Data centre in a shipping container
News On Friday Sun invited ZDNet.co.uk to an army museum in London to see what it is calling the world's first "virtualised data centre" — basically a data centre housed in a standard 20-foot shipping container.
[May 21, 2007, 17:52]
Amazon vows to keep free shipping
Talkback The cost of Amazon's shipping is borne by their suppliers. Amazon dictate the amount of shipping the shipper can recover and it is very much lower than actual cost. If Amazon's profits continue to fall expect the range of products available to...
[July 26, 2004, 11:18]
Palm begins shipping new PDA
News Palm today began shipping its latest handheld PDA, the Palm m105, in the US. The company said the device will be available world-wide from mid-March, and will cost £169. The m105 is the first Palm device to include as standard the company's Mobile...
[March 6, 2001, 11:31]
Intel starts shipping 160GB solid-state drives
News Intel has begun shipping its 160GB solid-state drives, the manufacturer announced on Monday. The Sata solid-state drives (SSDs) were first announced in April, and come in two form factors — the 2.5-inch X25-M model is shipping to laptop...
[December 23, 2008, 11:37]
OzLINK Shipping for NetSuite
Downloads OzLINK is a multi-carrier shipping solution for NetSuite. OzLINK works with the most robust shipping interfaces available for the four most popular carriers: UPS WorldShip, USPS Endicia, DHL EasyShip and FedEx Ship Manager.
[July 15, 2008, 7:57]
VIA starts shipping Athlon chipset
News VIA said it is shipping the chipset to more than 20 manufacturers. VIA Technologies Wednesday announced it has begun volume shipments of its Apollo KX133 chipset, optimised for AMD's Athlon processor.
[January 13, 2000, 6:05]
Tracking Reusable Metal Shipping Containers Using Passive RFID
White Papers The evaluation focused on tracking large steel shipping containers and their contents as part of a parts distribution system. This paper looks at two main problem areas; tracking the containers throughout their lifetime using a permanent durable...
[August 14, 2009, 4:40]
Blank Blu-ray disks shipping
News Japan's TDK has started shipping blank Blu-ray discs to retailers, and they cost about as much as a first-run movie on DVD. A 25GB recordable disc costs $19.95 (£11.50), according to the Blu-ray Disc Association, the trade group behind the next...
[April 11, 2006, 10:40]
OzLINK Shipping for QuickBooks PRO
Downloads OzLINK is a multi-carrier shipping solution for QuickBooks. OzLINK works with the most robust shipping interfaces available for the four most popular carriers: UPS WorldShip, USPS Endicia, DHL EasyShip, and FedEx Ship Manager.
[July 25, 2008, 9:27]
