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MAKING WAVES Wireless isn't just for landlubbers. Now travelers in the Scandinavian region (which has long been in the forefront of wireless technology) can get wi-fi while crossing the Baltic Sea. Passengers on Silja ferries running between Helsinki, Stockholm and Tallinn, Estonia, can log on for free while seated near...
...world's two largest cell-phone makers are cleaning house. Motorola's Christopher Galvin, grandson of founder Paul Galvin, resigned as CEO in September after six years at the helm. The company then decided to dump its semiconductor arm. Then Helsinki-based Nokia shuffled top management positions, bringing in Rick Simonson as chief financial officer, the first Yank to crack Nokia's upper ranks...
...American Express by flashing a key fob in front of a plastic box. In London the same technology helps retailer Marks & Spencer track gourmet dinners to prevent spoilage. The U.S. military used it in Iraq to electronically search supplies and keep tabs on hospital patients. In Singapore and Helsinki DHL tested it in anticipation of tracking the 160 million packages it ships annually. And in Arkansas the world's biggest retailer, Wal-Mart, is telling its top 100 suppliers to put it on all cases and pallets by 2005, or else...
...other hand, DHL Worldwide Express, which handles 160 million packages a year, plans to go global soon with RFID tracking. Earlier this year DHL's RFID program manager Trevor Peirce stood next to a conveyor belt at its Helsinki gateway, watching computerized RFID scanners identify packages inside passing cargo containers at the rate of 300 items per second. "This is amazing technology when you see it working, and it's all fine-tuned," says Peirce. For customers, the payoff is later posting times and earlier deliveries, says the company's CIO, Steve Bandrowczak. "RFID clearly can help customers by reducing...
...watching – game is on, as USA Hockey will continue to evaluate prospects through the beginning of the season. The final roster will be announced about a month before the tournament, which takes place from Dec. 25, 2003 to Jan. 4, 2004, in Helsinki and Hameenlinna, Finland, and includes the world’s best players under...