Trucking Technology Alert - Oct. 12
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Today's Technology Headlines:
- Online Trade System Assists Companies
- Japanese Co. Unveils Cell Phone Technology
- Freightgate Opens Marseille Office
- Mitsubishi Upgrades Delivery Tracking System
Online Trade System Assists Companies
Open Harbor, formerly known as myCustoms, announced recently that it is offering part of its Intelligent Restricted Party Screening Service free-of-charge as a way to help firms adhere to tougher and rapidly-changing export compliance regulations.The company brings restricted party screening capabilities to a new level by deploying advanced pattern-matching algorithms. Open Harbor's software is capable of evaluating any combination of country, address and name.
Open Harbor's service is able to return a prioritized list of possible matches almost immediately.
I>eyefortransport (10/12/01)
Japanese Co. Unveils Cell Phone Technology
In Japan, NTT DoCoMo recently launched its pioneering third-generation (3G) mobile phone service FOMA (Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access).Although DoCoMo says there are still a number of technical problems with FOMA that need to be ironed out, the new service is still miles ahead of similar services in other countries. In Europe, for example, second-generation wireless application protocol (WAP) services are still struggling to take off, while the United States is even further behind.
Unlike 2G systems, like i-mode in Japan and WAP in Europe, 3G offers rapid data transmission speeds that are very well suited for video and audio streaming. DoCoMo has been able to launch its new 3G service because of its earlier phenomenal success with i-mode. DoCoMo intends to spend approximately 17 billion British pounds over the next three years expanding its FOMA service in Japan. The Japanese company is hoping to introduce its 3G service in the United Kingdom at the end of 2002. Guardian Unlimited (UK) (10/11/01)
Freightgate Opens Marseille Office
Freightgate, a provider of Internet applications for the logistics and freight industry, has established a new support, service and sales office in Marseille, France.According to Martin Hubert, president and chief executive officer of Freightgate, the new office will not only facilitate the company's relationships with its current customers in Europe, but it is also expected to drum up new business on the continent. He added that the establishment of the office in France was a natural extension of his company's "global by design" suite of services and products. Hubert also said that Freightgate is thinking about establishing an Asian office sometime in the future. Journal of Commerce (10/10/01); Armbruster, William
Mitsubishi Upgrades Delivery Tracking System
Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America (MMSA) has improved its Order to Delivery (OTD) system by developing an Order Management System (OMS), which gives car dealers constant updates on the status of their ordered vehicles, from when it is built to when it arrives on the lot.OMS, which runs on an Oracle database and utilizes information from the OTD system, gives dealers the ability to change shipping and production schedules in order to send more cars to dealers who need them. The older OTD system was created to replace the "push" production system, which pushed cars onto dealers who could not handle them, consequently, leaving cars on dealer lots for over 160 days. InternetWeek (10/08/01) No. 881, P. 11; Moozakis, Chuck
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