Since China lacks proper credit-card and express-mail industries, Mr Shen has signed up local milkmen to collect cash at customers' doors.
Dell's existing service business is at the low end, little more than extended-warranty tune-ups and installing such off-the-rack systems as Microsoft's Outlook Express e-mail software.
The Internet will make it just a little easier for patients with chronic conditions to order re-fills by e-mail -- and save Express Scripts money on trying to decipher all those prescriptions.
It's not yet clear whether Melissa can get e-mail addresses from Outlook Express.
Once you tweet that confirmation hashtag, American Express will shoot you a confirmation e-mail and give you 15 minutes to confirm you want the product.
At TNT, a Dutch postal operator, shareholders won a battle to get the firm to separate its express business from its mail division, but the company added unpopular anti-takeover mechanisms to the express part.
Xyrem will be distributed from a single mail-order pharmacy run by Express Scripts (nasdaq: ESRX - news - people ).
Company representatives say they're working on a Disappearing plug-in for Lotus Notes, and expect to soon release free plug-ins for other popular e-mail programs, such as Outlook Express and Eudora.
Britain retains the Royal Mail's monopoly on the last-mile delivery for daily mail volumes under 4, 000 items (Express Dairies got its delivery licence because its volume is above the monopoly threshold).
The problem brought to light by the privacy organizations affects people with e-mail readers formatted in HTML, which includes popular programs such as MS Outlook, MS Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, Eudora and Hotmail, according to the report, written by Richard Smith, a security consultant.
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