New Trucks Significantly Reduce Emissions
UPS (NYSE:UPS): WHAT: UPS’s newest trucks powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) are hitting the streets. Of the 300 new vehicles ordered last year, 43 now are making deliveries in Denver.
The CNG vehicles, part of an order placed last May, will allow UPS to further reduce its [...]

Air2Web, Inc., a market leader in worldwide mobile messaging, announced today that they are providing the strategic messaging platform for 3n Global, the leading global mass notification system provider, to provide mass emergency notification services to organizations in corporate, government, healthcare and education.
Many organizations are implementing emergency notification systems to address the complex issue [...]

Strategic Location will Enable Shorter Transit Times On Asian Trade Lanes
UPS (NYSE:UPS) today began construction of its new intra-Asia air hub at Shenzhen International Airport in the heart of China’s Pearl River Delta.
Once completed, the Shenzhen facility will replace UPS’s current intra-Asia hub located at the former Clark Air Base in the Philippines [...]

Company Will Join EPA, Eaton, Navistar To Make Announcement
WHAT:
UPS will make an important announcement regarding its alternative-fuel vehicle fleet in a special news conference on Monday, Oct. 27, in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park. The announcement will showcase a unique public-private partnership between UPS, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Eaton Corp. and Navistar. Senior executives [...]

Turnkey Online Solution for Print Shops Goes Live Aug. 1
Tombstone Cards’ (OTCBB: TMCI) software development division, Tombstone Technologies, today announced that OIEPrint Store, a complete e-commerce solution for print shops goes live Aug. 1, 2008 as part of its proprietary Web-to-print software suite, OIEPrint™.
“The OIEPrint Suite will provide a design and ordering system [...]

“Big Brown” jumped on the Big Brown train and is gearing up for more.
UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced a marketing agreement with jockey Kent Desormeaux and IEAH Stables, the ownership group for Kentucky Derby Champion Big Brown, that makes UPS the exclusive marketing partner of the “Big Brown” team.
The agreement was struck shortly after [...]

Green Enterprise IT Awards from Uptime Institute Recognize Outstanding Initiatives
The Uptime Institute, a leading research-based think-tank and corporate advisory on the business and technology issues related to critical computing environment reliability and energy efficiency, today announced winners of its Green Enterprise IT Awards. The awards, which honor organizations that are pioneering energy-efficiency improvements in [...]

iRise®, the world’s leading visualization solutions company, today announced it has been awarded a second U.S. patent by the U.S. Patent Trademark Office (PTO), no. US 7,349,837 B2. The iRise patent covers the “systems and methods for a programming environment for a simulation of a computer application.” This patent primarily concerns editing and association of [...]

UPS Announces 2008 Rates
New Pricing to Take Effect Dec. 31
UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced new list rates for 2008, including an average 4.9 percent increase for UPS Ground and Ground Hundredweight shipments and a net average increase of 4.9 percent on all air express and U.S. origin International shipments.
The increase for air express [...]

APC-MGE, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, today announced a price increase for its uninterruptible power supply (UPS), replacement batteries and specialized data center battery solutions due to significantly higher lead costs. The price increase, which ranges from 2%-5% for UPSs and 10-20% on replacement batteries and battery systems, took effect [...]