Dec 26
Didn’t get your last last last minute gifts from Amazon
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Dec 26
UPS and FedEx are under fire for over-promising and quite literally under-delivering this holiday season, as retailers like Amazon are forced to apologize and offer compensation while simultaneously announcing record … Continue reading
Dec 20
We’re at the peak of the busiest delivery season of the year. To prove how mad it is, Animal New York recorded this insane 24-hour time-lapse of a UPS parking lot packed with truck trailers behind its office in Hell’s Kitchen—"Due to space constraints, this plays out like an real life game of Tetris."
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Dec 03
Amazon unveiled its Prime Air program, which if you haven’t heard yet, will use drones in order to deliver packages to users who live within a ten-mile radius from one of the company’s fulfillment centers. Amazon says they will be able to deliver purchases within 30 minutes of the order being placed, which could certainly help in securing those last-minute gifts. Amazon doesn’t seem to be the only company toying with the idea of using drones to deliver packages as UPS apparently is also conducting research on using its own drones for deliveries. (more…)
UPS Researching Delivery Drones To Compete With Amazon Prime Air original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Oct 10
Coca-Cola’s global distribution channels are so well-developed that a Coke can get pretty much anywhere on the planet—even places where there’s no access to fresh water. But Coke is working on that, too. As part of its mission to bring drinking water to the communities it serves, the company has developed a solar-powered, Wi-Fi-equipped kiosk with a water purification system—and it plans to drop them in 20 countries by 2015.
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Jul 31
The UPS Store to offer 3D printing service in select San Diego locations (video)
Posted in: Today's Chili
Today, The UPS Store announced its plan to bring 3D printing services to the masses. The shipping company will soon roll out Stratasys Uprint SE Plus printers to 6 locations in San Diego to test out the new service; it’ll be aimed at small businesses, start-ups and retail customers in need of a professional grade model to produce things like prototypes and artistic renderings. At $20,900 a pop, Stratasys printers aren’t exactly the kind of gadget you’d purchase for home use, so their availability at UPS stores is a pretty major step towards making high quality 3D printing an accessible option for the common man. Though the company is starting small, it hopes to expand the service nationwide, provided that the San Diego experiment proves successful. For more info, check out the video after the break.
Filed under: Misc, Peripherals
Via: GigaOM
Source: UPS
Jul 29
So I was on vacation last week, and came back to the usual mountain of 700+ emails and piles of junk from PR companies Katamaried all over my desk. There was also this.
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Jul 26
It can be FedEx. It can be UPS. It can be any shipping service, really. They all promise to get your packages to where you want them to go but there’s no guarantee they’ll treat your packages with any sort of tender, love or care. Most likely, they’ll be thrown around, banged around and destroyed in the process. Just look at this FedEx employee have fun tossing FedEx packages into her truck. I can see the appeal of chucking boxes but doesn’t this just create chaos and add more work later?
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Jul 10
This is the Modem World: Four ways to fix e-commerce and shipping companies
Posted in: Today's ChiliEach week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology.
I’m going out of my head right now. I came home hoping to find my cool new Santa Cruz mountain biking jersey all wrapped in plastic thanks to UPS via Chainlove.com, my crazy-discounted gear site of choice. We’re not talking anything expensive — I think the thing cost me $20, but I was psyched to have a team jersey from my favorite bike company. I’m a bike dork, what can I say?
I should have been skeptical when I tracked my package from the office to learn that it had been left at my “front door” at exactly 2:00 PM. While it’s possible the driver hit the 2 PM mark on the head, it’s unlikely that he or she left anything at my “front door” given that it’s three stories or 76 stairs — my mom counts and complains every time she visits — above the street. In fact, every single delivery I’ve ever received here was tossed over my little wooden fence. But in my head, everything was fine. The jersey was waiting for me, my future as a Santa Cruz team member assured. Victory was mine.
Jun 03
ASUS‘ Computex 2013 appearance hasn’t all been flashy tablets and glass-clad ultrabooks; the company also had a new tower PC, though even with the G10 it couldn’t resist a little flourish or two. The seriously-styled tower not only accommodates Intel’s 4th-gen Haswell processors but a battery backup system, which can serve as a temporary uninterrupted power supply (UPS) just in case your electricity goes out while you’re in the midst of crunching some important data.
ASUS claims the UPS will run for at least twenty seconds, though it all depends on load; it could in fact run for longer. That should be enough to iron out any momentary glitches in the power supply, though it doesn’t really give much time to save everything and safely shut down as you would with a traditional UPS.
As for the more typical components, there’s 8GB of RAM and a combination of 1TB of traditional HDD storage with a 128GB SSD for the more commonly-requested files. Graphics are courtesy of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 650, which can output via HDMI, DVI-D, or VGA. Other connectivity includes the usual clutch of USB 3.0 and USB 2.0, and there’s a DVD burner and a multi-format memory card reader up front.
To go with the Desktop PC G10, ASUS has a new display, too. The PA279Q was actually pushed out into the wild a couple of days ago, complete with a 27-inch, 2560 x 1,440 WQHD AH-IPS panel and 178-degree viewing angles. ASUS sets it up at the factory for 99-percent of the Adobe Wide Gamut RGB colors, as well as 100-percent of sRGB.
Brightness is 350cd/m2, and there’s a monitor hood supplied in the box for those moments when you really need to see colors accurately. Connectivity includes DisplayPort, HDMI, and dual-link DVI-D, with support for two inputs active and on-screen simultaneously (either picture-in-picture or split-screen), along with daisy-chaining DisplayPort across up to three panels. An SD card reader and 6-port USB 3.0 hub round of the main specs.
No word on pricing for either the G10 PC or the PA279Q display, though ASUS says the computer will go on sale sometime in the second half of this year.
ASUS Desktop PC G10 hides integrated UPS for power protection is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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