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Colombian Manufacturer Teams With Truckers to Drive Down Carbon Emissions
Companies often collaborate with suppliers and customers to reduce the carbon footprint of their freight operations. Colombian manufacturer Corona and the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (CLI), based in Bogotá, Colombia, have teamed up with another important logistics player to lower carbon emissions: the truck driver community.
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The IoT Market Is Huge, But Is It THAT Huge?
Over-the-top headlines and estimates of the size of the IoT market create more confusion and skepticism about hype than a real understanding of how big the market really is. There needs to be a framework for understanding IoT market size.
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Jump Technologies Enhances App for Package Tracking
Jump Technologies Inc. has added capabilities to its InnerTrack application for receiving and package tracking.
Technology Companies Speed Ahead of Automakers in Developing Driverless Cars
In the race to put autonomous vehicles on read roads, technology companies may overtake automakers. According to a report from IHS Automotive, companies like Google and others are currently working toward solutions in the autonomous vehicle space and Google is in the lead. IHS Automotive estimates the technology company has invested nearly $60m so far in autonomous vehicle research and development, at a run rate of nearly $30m per year.
Inspection Data Systems Offers Reporting Tools for Fleet Inspections
Inspection Data Systems (IDS) has launched a series of enhanced reporting tools for its mobile inspection and cloud-based applications for truck fleets.
DHL Expands Services in Northern Virginia's Dulles Corridor
DHL has opened a new service center in Herndon, Va., to serve the area of northern Virginia known as the Dulles Corridor.
Amazon, Google Intensely Focused on Robotics, But Their Strategies Differ
With robots like BigDog and the Terminator-like Atlas, Google's robotics efforts have been a smash success - if you measure by YouTube views and buzz. Amazon's work has been more behind scenes (apart from the widely discussed plans for delivery drones). But Amazon's energies in robotics have also had a more immediate payoff than Google's "moonshots." The differing philosophies illustrate how Amazon and Google have taken starkly different paths so far in the race to automate the physical world.
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Digitally-savvy Millennials Said Likely to Shop in Brick-and-Mortar Stores on Thanksgiving
Millennials may be digital natives, but for all their supposed reliance on mobile devices, this group is more likely to shop on Thanksgiving Day and do so in stores, according to a new survey by location-based mobile platform Retale.
Shale Resins Stimulating Development, Employment Increases in Plastics Industry
Shale-advantaged resins are affecting job growth in the plastics industry in a big way, according to Martha Moore, senior director, Policy Analysis and Economics, for the American Chemistry Council.
As Driver-less Cars Arrive, Will Driver's License Rite of Passage Become as Obsolete as Model 'T'?
In the not-so-far-off future, teens won't bother getting driver's licenses, consumers will shun owning their own cars, and taxis will be replaced by "taxibots."
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How to Motivate Your Supplier to Enforce Human Rights
Corporations pay lip service to enforcing human rights and fair working conditions in offshore factories. But the deaths and injuries continue.
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Seko Logistics Boosts Warehouse Space in California
Seko Logistics has tripled its warehouse operations capacity in California, with the opening of an omnichannel logistics hub in Chino, and expansion into a new 200,000 square-foot facility near San Francisco.
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