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Federal Express deliberately chose to share information with the competing sites, but it did so strategically. It never offered, or pretended to offer, full information about its needs and about the competition. Rather, it shared that information that it thought would help leverage additional incentives, specifically the probable bids of the competition, but only when they were higher. FedEx discovered that the strategic sharing of information could be more advantageous than the complete withholding of information.
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Federal Express is running a "limited pilot" that couples sensor technologies to track a packages temperature, location, humidity levels and delivery status with Web 2.0 tools such as Google Earth, according to FedEx CIO Robert Carter. Tags: Google, RFID, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General Blog posts 2007-02-23
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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.
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Chrysler Group and its sister Freightliner subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler are playing a principal role in an ongoing development program of a hybrid-power Mercedes diesel engine for Federal Express trucks. Cleveland-based Eaton Corp. is the engine source for the project, which could lead Chrysler and Mercedes-Benz into a unique application of gas-electric power for the entire DC fleet of vehicles. Little publicized until this month, the hybrid diesel has been successfully tested on the road and could be rolled out early next year in FedEx pickups, according to a Forbes Magazine (November 24) column by veteran auto writer Jerry Flint.
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Grant applicants need to file their applications through one of four commercial carriers -- DHL, Falcon Carrier, Federal Express (FedEx), United Parcel Service (UPS) or United States Postal Service (USPS). Applicants using the latter should complete a certificate of delivery, USPS form No. 38-17.
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