Stories about: Federal Express

Microsoft and a slew of other companies will roll out new tools this week designed to help companies meld internal data with social networks, mashups or other tools like iGoogle that originated in the Web 2.0 world.

When Seattle, Washington resident David Ruggiero heard about an opportunity to get his hands on the innovative XO laptop made by the One Laptop Per Child charitable organization, he hopped on it. Within two hours after the promotion began on Nov. 12 he snapped one up.

Microsoft confirmed Monday that it is investigating reports that a security update for Internet Explorer issued last week has crippled some users' ability to get on the Web with the browser.

With IBMs launch earlier this month of Lotus Notes 8 and this week's unveiling of Lotus SameTime Version 8, industry analysts say we are beginning to see the evolution of the e-mail client from a communications tool into a coordination channel. And when that happens, IBM may be in the unprecedented position of getting a second chance at knocking off longtime market leader Microsoft Outlook.

In Washington, the seat of U.S. government, participants spell out the language of the political process on the tiny keys of BlackBerries.

In continuous operation for 144 years -- since April 3, 1860 -- PonyExpress finally got hip to the benefits of wireless. That's the message from Peter Ticktin, its current CEO and president. It's an amazing story, not just from a historical perspective, but from a business point of view as well.

Transport company Federal Express (FedEx) is set to introduce "intelligent" digital pens which feature infrared cameras, image processors and Bluetooth wireless transceivers.

FedEx Freight, the long-haul trucking business division of Federal Express, recently gave its Web operations a Linux facelift. It replaced 15 front-end Windows Web servers running Microsoft Internet Information Server with Red Hat Linux and Apache Web server.

Analysts at a developers' conference in Sydney last week identified several issues that developers and companies need to get to grips with before attacking IT projects using web services.

Striving to remain intact after the collapse of Enron, Arthur Andersen's Australian operation has been rescued by fellow Big Five consultancy Ernst & Young, but IT decision-makes are out in the cold over how the deal will impact them.

Companies are realising the most overrated areas of IT are CRM and outsourcing, according to Gartner chairman and chief executive Michael Fleisher.