GOOD EXPANDS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT; ENTERS CANADA Adds Financial Services Customer; Signs First Four Canadian VARs
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Dell expands Canadian services division
Dell expands Canadian services division
06/15/2004 05:56 PMITBusiness.ca Jun 15 2004 9:53PM GMT
Xerox Canada Signs Three-Year Contract
Extension With ResponseTek Networks for
Customer Experience Management Solution
Xerox Canada Signs Three-Year Contract
Extension With ResponseTek Networks for
Customer Experience Management Solution
04/14/2005 04:33 AMResponseTek Networks Corp., a leading supplier of Customer Experience
Management (CEM) solutions, today announced that Xerox Canada has
signed a three-year contract extension for its CEM software suite to
continue to effectively manage customer loyalty. [PRWEB Apr 14, 2005]
United States & Canada Introduces New
Operator Services Customized for US,
Canadian & European Tourists Visiting
Mexico(01-800-555-1212)
United States & Canada Introduces New
Operator Services Customized for US,
Canadian & European Tourists Visiting
Mexico(01-800-555-1212)
04/07/2005 02:29 AMInternational Carrier Delivers International Operator Services to
Tourist Market in Mexico [PRWEB Apr 7, 2005]
New BusinessEdge Solutions Survey Finds
Financial Services Sector Leads the
“Pack” in Customer Centricity
Investments, Expectations and
Understanding
New BusinessEdge Solutions Survey Finds
Financial Services Sector Leads the
“Pack” in Customer Centricity
Investments, Expectations and
Understanding
06/17/2005 03:17 PMNew BusinessEdge Solutions survey on customer centricity highlighted
at the SIA Technology Management Conference at the New York Hilton
June 21 - 28. While most sectors have a “CRM-like” focus, financial
services looks to customer centricity for improved operational
efficiency and compliance needs. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2005]
MCI expands Wi-Fi footprint
MCI expands Wi-Fi footprint
12/16/2003 04:12 PMThe carrier announces that it will more than triple its footprint of
Wi-Fi access points through a partnership with Boingo Wireless.
Cray Expands Its Footprint
Cray Expands Its Footprint
03/08/2004 11:20 PMSupercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc., which currently sells a single
system aimed at the highest echelon of users, is expanding its
footprint with systems for slightly less expensive HPC applications.
SwiftCD® Adds New and Improved Services
Including Enhanced Customer Order
Tracking and XML Web Service
SwiftCD® Adds New and Improved Services
Including Enhanced Customer Order
Tracking and XML Web Service
08/05/2004 12:24 PMThe world leader in "On-Demand" CD/DVD creation and fulfillment,
SwiftCD (www.SwiftCD.com), just got even better, thanks to its
announcement of an exciting array of new and expanded services to
better improve performance and serve customers. A successful branch of
DigitalSwift Corporation, SwiftCD has unveiled several new and
improved support options for its customers, including such features as
Customer 'Self Serve' Order Tracking, an expanded UPS® Tracking
capability and reporting, enhanced Vendor and Customer Support and a
robust XML Web Service to accompany the existing HTTP post interface.
[PRWEB Aug 5, 2004]
HP Procurve adds Ethernet switches and
seeks to boost number of VARs
HP Procurve adds Ethernet switches and
seeks to boost number of VARs
12/07/2003 09:46 PMComputer Weekly Dec 7 2003 9:08PM ET
THE GLOBAL
FOOTPRINT STRESS INDEX
THE GLOBAL
FOOTPRINT STRESS INDEX
12/19/2004 02:54 PM
Global Footprint Stress
Index: Extreme (purple, >10), High (orange 3-10), Moderate (yellow
1-3), Low (white <1)
Last month I wrote an article
suggesting that a propensity for war-mongering and civil violence,
i.e.
the tendency to take hasty and extreme action rather than a reasoned
and responsible response to a crisis, might be attributable to what
Edward Hall describes as population stress, the adrenaline-driven
aggressive/panic stress response that all creatures exhibit when their
population greatly exceeds sustainable carrying capacity. Hall
explains
that this is nature's 'last resort' method of bringing the population
of the species quickly back into balance with the rest of the
ecosystem, when the species fails to manage its own numbers and when
opportunistic diseases don't do the trick. Earlier I had calculated<
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a simple Population Stress Index (PSI), which was computed by
multiplying density per arable square mile by population growth rate,
and I compared it to an astonishingly similar map by another
blogger, Matthew White, showing violent death rate by country.
As I explained in last month's post, the PSI is an imperfect stress
index. It does not show the very different levels of consumption and
demand on local resources of people in different countries (which has
as much to do with sustainability as population). So I have now
computed a Footprint Stress Index (FSI), plotted on the map above,
which is computed as follows:
- First, I calculated the Resource Use Index
by taking the aggregate Ecological Footprint (EF) of each country in
hectares (the per capita footprint from sources such as the Living Planet Report, times the country's
population), and dividing it by the number of habitable
hectares of land in the country (I used as a proxy for this the lesser
of 80% of total land area and 200% of Oxford's 'arable land area'
data). This very useful number indicates the number of times over each
country's citizens are using the renewable and sustainable resources
available to them. A Resource Use index of 1.0 is sustainable. An
index
of, say, 5, indicates that to restore the country to sustainability,
it
needs to do some combination of reducing population and reducing
per-capita resource consumption, by a combined 80%. The table below
shows some sample Resource Use indices I computed.
- Then I
multiplied this Resource Use Index by the estimated
annual growth rate of the country's aggregate Ecological Footprint.
For
this, I started with the annual population growth rate as a proxy (the
EF studies suggest aggregate footprint and population are growing at
roughly the same rate), and then substituted more precise EF growth
rate numbers when I could find them online (China's EF is growing much
faster than its population, for example).
Resource Use Index: Sample
Countries
80 Japan
60 S.Korea
40 Israel, Palestine
35 Switzerland
25 Netherlands, Belgium, UK
16 Germany
13 Ireland, France, Italy, Venezuela
11 US, Columbia, Chile, Sweden
|
9 China, Philippines
8 Congo
6 World Overall
6 S.Africa, New Zealand
5 Brasil, Iran, Mexico
3 Canada, India, Iraq, Russia
2 Australia, Argentina
1 A few equatorial African nations |
Footprint Stress Index: Sample
Countries
40+ Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia,
Kuwait
30 China
18 Congo
12 Venezuela,
Columbia
10 US
8 Chile
6
India, Netherlands, Belgium, Iraq
4.5 World Overall
|
4.0 Mexico, Iran, UK
3.0 New Zealand, Sweden
2.0 Brasil, Argentina, Japan,
France
1.5 Canada, Australia
1.0 S.Korea, Switzerland
0.5 Germany,
Italy
0.0 S.Africa, Russia
|
The US, China, Congo, Colombia, Venezuela, and several Mid-Eastern
nations all have FSIs in excess of 10. These are all countries
embroiled in war, imperialistic or regional or civil, except for China
where dissent is ruthlessly suppressed. These are the countries that
are suffering enormous anxiety because not only are they consuming
vastly more resources than what they have available domestically,
their
populations or industrial capacities are also growing rapidly, meaning
they will need to find ever more resources outside the country to feed
the soaring need.
Japan, South Korea and most European nations have very high Resource
Use Indices, but because their populations are growing slowly and
because they are mostly very aware of conservation, their EFs are not
increasing. As a result, their FSIs are more moderate. Because they
all
depend so heavily (90% or more) on imports of other countries' natural
resources, however, as these resources get depleted and as exporting
countries realize how cheaply they are giving them away, these
nations'
unsustainable resource demands will not be able to be met, and that
will drive their Footprint Stress Indices way up. Once these
scarcities
become endemic, there will no longer be any option to increase resource use, and at that
point the Resource Use Index itself will become the Footprint Stress
Index.
What will the world be like when dozens of nations, whose economies
are using resources at more than ten
times
the rate they can sustain them from domestic supplies, suddenly find
the price of these supplies quadrupling, or that these supplies are
not
available at any price? Colour all the countries on the left side of
the Resource Use Index table above purple on the map at the top of
this
article and you'll get the idea. We're talking about a world war for
increasingly scarce resources. And all of the countries on the right
side of that table then become invasion targets.
We all know what we have to do. Immediate massive taxes on resources
to
finance the development of technologies that conserve or don't require
natural resources. Shut-down of corporations that waste resources,
that
pollute, and that produce non-essential products. An end to subsidies,
so that we can begin to realize the true cost of our profligate
deficit
spending. The pay-down of government debts to reduce the risk of
economic collapse when interest and inflation rates spike. Incentives
for having no children, or maybe one.
Of course, we have no appetite for these draconian solutions. The
corporatist Frankenstein monster is perpetuating the waste and madness
that is producing this crisis, and they accept no responsibility for
the ultimate Tragedy of the Commons that will hit us with colossal
force once we simply run out of resources to consume to keep
civilization's engine running. The hydrogen economy simply won't occur
fast enough to stave off disaster.
Our best hope is, ironically, that some crisis will shock us into
collective action before the real crunch hits. We learned nothing from
the oil line-ups a generation ago, but perhaps it is not too late. If
the first crisis to hit is manageable, we may be motivated to combine
three massive human efforts: Voluntary negative population growth,
global large-scale conservation, and an unprecedented investment in
innovation and new low-footprint technologies, that could prevent a
social, economic and ecological collapse. We survived a Great
Depression three quarters of a century ago by exactly this type of
huge, collective intervention. That's what we need now. The 'market'
isn't going to fix this mess.
|
FindWhat Enters Canadian Local Market
Through Yellow Pages
FindWhat Enters Canadian Local Market
Through Yellow Pages
08/08/2004 01:42 PM"...announced a strategic private label initiative with Yellow Pages
Group (YPG), Canada’s largest telephone directories publisher, to
create a unique local, Canadian-based pay-per-click advertising
network."
Ingate Enters NYC Metro, South Florida,
Canadian Markets
Ingate Enters NYC Metro, South Florida,
Canadian Markets
05/31/2004 02:17 PMDistributor Partnerships with UDT Protia and CentralTouch Expand North
American Sales Reach, Increase Visibility in Latin America [PRWEB May
26, 2004]
Microsoft Canada and Canadian Law
Enforcement
Microsoft Canada and Canadian Law
Enforcement
04/09/2005 01:16 PMTechnology News Daily Apr 9 2005 4:43PM GMT
Microsoft Appoints Tracy Issel to Lead
Its Financial Services Group; Jerry
Reiss Named General Manager of Services
Microsoft Appoints Tracy Issel to Lead
Its Financial Services Group; Jerry
Reiss Named General Manager of Services
06/22/2004 09:17 AMMicrosoft Corp. today announced the appointments of Tracy Issel as
general manager of the Financial Services Group (FSG) in the United
States and Jerry Reiss as the new general manager of Services within
that group. Issel is responsible for driving sales, marketing,
services and strategy around Microsoft's financial service solutions.
Reiss will work closely with Issel to deliver services that support
Microsoft's integrated solutions for the financial services industry.
Bell Canada Buys Canadian Assets of
360networks
Bell Canada Buys Canadian Assets of
360networks
05/26/2004 03:22 PMBC Technology May 26 2004 6:50PM GMT
Canadian Pacific Railway, IBM Canada ink
$154M IT outsourcing deal
Canadian Pacific Railway, IBM Canada ink
$154M IT outsourcing deal
12/02/2003 10:21 PMThe railway's mainframe and data operations will move to two IBM
facilities and 100 or so of the railway's IT workers will become IBM
Canada employees.
Africa Enters Global Market For IT
Outsourcing
Africa Enters Global Market For IT
Outsourcing
07/25/2004 07:07 PMMedValue, the Leading Provider of
Medical Claims Processing Services Signs
up two California-based Management
Services Organizations (MSO) as New
Clients
MedValue, the Leading Provider of
Medical Claims Processing Services Signs
up two California-based Management
Services Organizations (MSO) as New
Clients
06/17/2005 03:42 PMMedValue’s Paper Claims to EDI Conversion service saves clients’
between 30% to 40% of their existing costs of processing paper claims.
The word is getting out and MSOs are transitioning the front-end of
their paper claims processing to MedValue at a rapid pace every month.
[PRWEB Jun 15, 2005]
THTWEB Worldwide Signs 1,000th Customer
THTWEB Worldwide Signs 1,000th Customer
03/17/2005 04:14 AMTHTWeb brings collaborative solution to Boxwood Technology [PRWEB Mar
16, 2005]
Canada Payphone Corporation Reports
Financial 2003 Results
Canada Payphone Corporation Reports
Financial 2003 Results
12/29/2003 02:51 PMBC Technology Dec 29 2003 1:43PM ET
HP Canada pays back $146M to Canadian
government in computer scandal
HP Canada pays back $146M to Canadian
government in computer scandal
05/14/2004 06:04 PMCanadian Press via Canada.com May 14 2004 9:47PM GMT
GPS Industries Distributor Signs
Additional Course in Canada
GPS Industries Distributor Signs
Additional Course in Canada
04/30/2004 05:39 PMBC Technology Apr 30 2004 10:21PM GMT
AOL Canada Expands VOIP Service
Nationwide
AOL Canada Expands VOIP Service
Nationwide
06/05/2005 11:43 PMAOL Canada expanded its VOIP-based "TotalTalk" service to the entire
nation on Monday, offering the service to broadband customers of both
its service and others.
Hideki Expands Product Distribution Into
Canada
Hideki Expands Product Distribution Into
Canada
12/17/2004 06:32 PMHideki Electronics, Inc. today announced an agreement with Canadian
Electronic Importers & Distributors (CEID) Corporation to make its
full line of personal electronics available in Canada. [PRWEB Dec 13,
2004]
Canadian Firm's Tire Monitor Goes Global
Canadian Firm's Tire Monitor Goes Global
11/13/2003 05:24 AMBC Technology Nov 13 2003 4:36AM ET
Canada Payphone Corporation Signs
Five-Year Agreement with Mr. Gas
Canada Payphone Corporation Signs
Five-Year Agreement with Mr. Gas
01/22/2004 09:56 PMBC Technology Jan 23 2004 2:13AM GMT
Canada invites Mohawk Internet
Technologies as part of Canadian
delegation at International
Telecommunication
Canada invites Mohawk Internet
Technologies as part of Canadian
delegation at International
Telecommunication
09/07/2004 09:44 PMCanadaIT.com Sep 8 2004 2:21AM GMT
Macromedia Canada expands staff as sales
rise
Macromedia Canada expands staff as sales
rise
08/12/2004 05:04 PMITBusiness.ca Aug 12 2004 8:12PM GMT
Strand Expands Bioinformatics
Distribution Relationship with UBI in
Canada
Strand Expands Bioinformatics
Distribution Relationship with UBI in
Canada
05/31/2004 01:47 PMUBI markets avadis, microarray expression analysis software, in
Canada. [PRWEB May 27, 2004]
Global Macroeconomic and Financial
Policy Site
Global Macroeconomic and Financial
Policy Site
11/05/2003 05:21 AMNouriel Roubini's Global Macroeconomic and Financial Policy
Sitehttp://www.stern.nyu.edu/
globalmacro/Nouriel Roubini's Global Macroeconomic and
Financial Policy Site at the
Stern
School of Business, New York University.
Epiphan Systems Signs Duocom as Web
Conferencing Dealer in Canada
Epiphan Systems Signs Duocom as Web
Conferencing Dealer in Canada
12/19/2004 03:45 PMDuocom to sell Epiphan’s innovative line of web conferencing products
throughout Canada. [PRWEB Dec 8, 2004]
Ingram Micro, Intechra Team up to
Eliminate Asset-Recovery Hassles for
Resellers; VARs Get Easy Access to Full
Suite of Asset Recovery Services
Ingram Micro, Intechra Team up to
Eliminate Asset-Recovery Hassles for
Resellers; VARs Get Easy Access to Full
Suite of Asset Recovery Services
06/24/2005 04:05 PMIntechra, LLC, a pioneer and leader in the asset recovery industry,
today announced that it has teamed up with Ingram Micro, Inc. (NYSE:
IM), the world’s largest technology distributor, to offer value-added
resellers (VARs) in the United States a full spectrum of asset
recovery services. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2005]
Canadian Restaurant Adds Wi-Fi
Canadian Restaurant Adds Wi-Fi
02/10/2004 07:57 PMEarls Restaurants is installing Wi-Fi with FatPort's help for both
customers' and managers' use: It's definitely passed a trend and into
routine that retail businesses find just as much utility and
potentially more cost savings (versus actual net income) from having
Wi-Fi hotspots in their locations. Most of the 50 restaurants already
had DSL installed, and so that wasn't a separately tracked cost.
Amusingly, it took quite a while for FatPort to install some locations
because of the infrequent airline service....
Summus Signs Agreement with Canadian
Wireless Carrier to Distribute Mobile
Game Applications
Summus Signs Agreement with Canadian
Wireless Carrier to Distribute Mobile
Game Applications
12/08/2003 03:36 PMStockhouse Canada Dec 8 2003 1:39PM ET
Amazon.com Enters the Web Services Age
Amazon.com Enters the Web Services Age
07/16/2002 02:48 PMThe retail giant launches a platform for developers at other sites to
create applications and tools to import Amazon content, features, and
hopefully, sales.
CA enters Web services management
CA enters Web services management
12/05/2003 09:01 PMCNET Dec 5 2003 8:33PM ET
Civic Good Not Always About Financial
Returns
Civic Good Not Always About Financial
Returns
05/16/2004 10:36 AMZack Rosen wanted to change American politics when he signed up with
Howard Dean's presidential campaign a year ago. A University of
Illinois computer-science student, the 20-year-old moved to Vermont in
the fall to be part of the campaign's technology team.
While the Dean campaign has since folded, Rosen's ideas are getting a
second life in Silicon Valley -- though not in the standard way.
DynaPel Signs Sales Agreements with 13
PELCO Reps to Market Its Products in the
US and Canadian Security Markets
DynaPel Signs Sales Agreements with 13
PELCO Reps to Market Its Products in the
US and Canadian Security Markets
07/23/2004 02:46 AM [PRWEB Jul 23, 2004]
XML standards for global customer
information management (DM Review)
XML standards for global customer
information management (DM Review)
05/30/2002 12:41 PMCA adds financial view to management
CA adds financial view to management
09/07/2004 03:52 PMAn update to Computer Associates' management software lets users bill
for IT services based on usage.
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