Tag: FEDEX

About 10 years ago I remember reading a section in my Computer Science textbook about data transfers across large distances. This was back when regular users had dial-up modem connections and rich companies had dual-bonded ISDN links. Those were the days! Anyway, there was one paragraph which stuck in my mind: if you want to send a lot of data somewhere and you don't care about the latency, the ...

It's late Friday afternoon, and the FedEx driver is due any moment for the last pickup before the weekend. Suddenly, without warning, an urgent email pops into your Microsoft Outlook inbox. A customer needs three widgets, and they need them yesterday. But you don't even flinch. You click the "ship" button on your FedEx QuickShip toolbar, choose the customer's name from your Outlook address book, ...

Adobe had teamed up with Kinkos FedEx to print documents over the internet, unfortunately this move upset smaller printing companies. The FedEx printing option had begun in Acrobat 8.1 and Reader 8.1 in June. However, complaints from rival businesses has forced Adobe to rethink their partnership with Kinko's and initiate a plan to take the feature out by an October release. FedEx Kinko's will ...

FedEx has gone through many reinventions over the years, but the latest one brings real value to businesses, both large and small. The software, titled Ship Manager has once again put FedEx out in front and sweetened the deal with data available where the customer lives. Now with FedEx's software can hookup to any database, ERP application, or other customer software that is ODBC compliant. FedEx ...

It was really the inevitable Google Maps hack: PackageMapper uses Google Maps to draw a map of your incoming package's route, and works for UPS, FedEx, and USPS. Even neater, it can show you the routes for many packages at once so you get an at-a-glance view of where your  packages are. Now if only there were a service that would do this in real-time (i.e. how far is the truck away from my ...