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Netflix post-mortem: hardware failure and poor transparency

Massive shipping delays last month at Netflix were caused by hardware failure. Netflix gets the dunce award for lack of transparency in the face of disaster. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Hardware, Customs, Stacksafe, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Customs Melt Down

I know it is getting too easy to point the finger of blame at organizations that are still running old versions of software and not taking care to patch them. But I still need to point out how critical systems are all around us. A case in point, highlighted in...

Tags: Customs

Blog posts 2005-08-22

Virus creates long lines

Computer viruses create more damage than just wasting time and resources. Every so often, we see the real-world impact of viruses, as on Thursday, when a virus shut down Customs Dept. computers, creating flight delays and long lines. As many as 5000 people were stuck in line in Miami, waiting...

Tags: virus, Customs

Blog posts 2005-08-22

Additional Resources

Scammers trick users to ship stolen goods

RSA FraudAction Research Lab has uncovered the workings behind a recent re-shipping scam in which U.S. residents were used as mules to send goods purchased with stolen credit card numbers overseas. RSA FraudAction Research Lab has uncovered the workings behind a recent re-shipping scam in which U.S. residents were...

Tags: U.S., Goods, RSA Security Inc., Credit Card, RSA FraudAction Research Lab, Credit Card Number, Re-shippers, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Finance, RSA, scam, Elinor Mills CNET News

News items 2009-11-12

Obama upholds Bush laptop search policy - with new safeguards

Really at this point, can anybody be surprised to read this, in today's Washington Post: The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search -- without suspicion of wrongdoing -- the contents of a traveler's laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic...

Tags: Policy, Laptop Computer, Obama, Government, Notebooks, Vertical Industries, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-28

Trader 1.0 (Mobile)

Software developed for businesses of trading, export, import, and business customs in general. It also acts as a complement mobile activities. It is structured around clients, costs, requests, tool Export/Import, Agenda and Reports.

Tags: Trader, Mobile, HANDCASE, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-08-14

The future of... Passport control

Customs officials describe it as your ticket to get out of line. SmartPlanet correspondent Sumi Das looks at the Global Entry Trusted Traveler program, which uses automated kiosks to help get you out of the airport and to your destination faster. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Phrasebook for Pearl (240x320) (Mobile)

PhraseBook gives you instant access tomore than 2,100useful phrases, which areclearly structured intopic-related categories. 18source languages are available forselection.All situations forholiday or business trips including: customs, hotels, service, travelling, car repairs, sightseeing, entertainment, eating anddrinking, sports andrecreation. You can also easily prepare aconversation byputting groups ofphrases together. All you have...

Tags: Car, Mobile, Herocraft, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-30

Phrasebook (480x360) (Mobile)

PhraseBook gives you instant access tomore than 2,100useful phrases, which areclearly structured intopic-related categories. 18source languages are available forselection.All situations forholiday or business trips including: customs, hotels, service, travelling, car repairs, sightseeing, entertainment, eating anddrinking, sports andrecreation. You can also easily prepare aconversation byputting groups ofphrases together. All you have...

Tags: Car, Mobile, Herocraft, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-30

Phrasebook (480x320) (Mobile)

PhraseBook gives you instant access tomore than 2,100useful phrases, which areclearly structured intopic-related categories. 18source languages are available forselection.All situations forholiday or business trips including: customs, hotels, service, travelling, car repairs, sightseeing, entertainment, eating anddrinking, sports andrecreation. You can also easily prepare aconversation byputting groups ofphrases together. All you have...

Tags: Car, Mobile, Herocraft, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-30

Phrasebook for Pearl (240x260) (Mobile)

PhraseBook gives you instant access tomore than 2,100useful phrases, which areclearly structured intopic-related categories. 18source languages are available forselection.All situations forholiday or business trips including: customs, hotels, service, travelling, car repairs, sightseeing, entertainment, eating anddrinking, sports andrecreation. You can also easily prepare aconversation byputting groups ofphrases together. All you have...

Tags: Car, Mobile, Herocraft, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-29

Phrasebook (320x240) (Mobile)

PhraseBook gives you instant access tomore than 2,100useful phrases, which areclearly structured intopic-related categories. 18source languages are available forselection.All situations forholiday or business trips including: customs, hotels, service, travelling, car repairs, sightseeing, entertainment, eating anddrinking, sports andrecreation. You can also easily prepare aconversation byputting groups ofphrases together. All you have...

Tags: Car, Mobile, Herocraft, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-29

The future of... passport control

Customs officials describe it as your ticket to get out of line. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das looks at the Global Entry Trusted Traveler program, which uses automated kiosks to help get you out of the airport and to your destination faster.

Tags: Business Travel, Airport, Customs and Border Protection, Passport, Immigration, Sumi Das

Videos 2009-07-26

China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political repression

China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political repressionOur children should be so lucky!If our government would protect our children from porn, maybe we wouldn't have may of the problems we have in our society with our children and sex!RE: China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political...

Tags: Chinese Government, porn obsession, repression, political repression, coverup

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

IRS drops work cellphone personal usage tax; Calls it obsolete

IRS drops work cellphone personal usage tax; Calls it obsoleteWow, that's scary.This can only mean they're working on something new to suck even more money out of us.Fire your headline writerAsking congress to repeal a law is not "dropping a tax."Then again, after reading the article, maybe the problem is...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Internal Revenue Service, personal usage tax, usage tax, cell phone, tax

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

VeriSign PKI-Based Certificates Are Rock Solid: From the Tumultuous Launch of the Integrated Cargo System to Today

Representing 250 customs brokers and freight forwarding businesses in Australia, the Customs Brokers and Forwarders Council of Australia Inc. CBFCA is an industry association that represents members' interests in various Australian Customs and Border Protection Service consultative forums - providing members with guidance, representation, services and access to the latest...

Tags: VeriSign Inc., PKI, Security

Case studies 2009-06-17

Logistics Company Boosts Productivity With Familiar Desktop Applications

Raben Ukraine, part of Raben Group, provides services such as warehousing, customs clearance, international and national distribution, and logistics services for fresh products. When dealing with time-sensitive deliveries, employees have to produce shipping documents quickly. The company's open-source software was cumbersome to use and incompatible with common file formats used...

Tags: Desktop, Logistics, Microsoft Corp., Supply Chain, Business Operations

Case studies 2009-06-01

Some welcome competition in mid-market ERP

Sage's X3 - Does it need big systems integrators as part of its market success? A few days ago, several members of the analyst and press community were given a briefing on Sage’s high-end ERP product, X3. X3 was acquired by Sage three years ago and...

Tags: Accounting, Reseller, ERP, Channel Partner, Sage, X3, X3 Product Line, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-05-27

MSDict Oxford Dictionary of the Bible (BB Storm) (Mobile)

The Most Authoritative and Up-to-date Dictionary of the Bible AvailableAs well as providing concise information about important places and personalities, this accessible dictionary clearly explains the themes and doctrines of the Bible. With entries ranging from earthquakes and mice to feminism and the Dead See Scrolls, it is a lively...

Tags: Bible, Scholar

Software downloads 2009-05-14

CAAAREM Improves Online Information Analysis With a Reliable, Integrated Information System

The Mexican Confederation of Associations of Customs Brokers CAAAREM wanted to create an integrated information system that enables customs brokers and associations to analyze government information online and further develop foreign trade operations and provide scorecards and indicators that help analyze and facilitate monitoring their import and export operations. The...

Tags: Information System, Oracle Corp., Analysis, CAAAREM, Data Mining, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

Case studies 2009-04-01