Archive for November, 2012

Increase Your Trucking Profit With Vehicle Tracking GPS Tools

November 18th, 2012 | Category: Technology

Vehicle tracking GPS tools have been proven time and time again to be something that can really help trucking companies who are in the business of moving products from one location to another.  When you think about the business of trucking, it is actually pretty similar in nature to manufacturing.  It is all about being as effective and as efficient as possible.  With this type of software these tools can be utilized to streamline the whole process so that you can really increase your profits across the board.

The big way that this type software is going to help you in terms of increasing your profits is that you are going to be able to accurately bill customers for the amount of time that it took to travel to certain locations and the mileage.  Typically when you bid on a job to move something you will take into account the mileage and set a price based on that.

With this type of technology you can actually wait until after the job has been done and run a report on how long it took the driver to get to the destination.  This can be utilized to bill the customer and can also act as basically the invoice to the customer.

This can increase profit in a big way as you will not underbill customers.  GPS tracking device tools are a big help when you think about just how hard it is to manage all of your trucks and their locations.  Lojack tools are also proving helpful fight vehicle theft.  Some of the more popular tools  are taking the industry by storm.

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How Kindle transformed giant online retailer Amazon.com

November 09th, 2012 | Category: Technology

The Amazon.com, an online retail behemoth introduced its first Kindle (code named Fiona at the time) on November 19, 2007 something completely unexpected from a retailer.  It allowed readers to download books quickly without a PC for the first time.  The innovation gave access to more than 90,000 strong books available from Amazon.com.  This helped Amazon.com to establish its name as a technology innovator and transformed the industry.  Amazon.com total revenue in 2007 climbed to over $14.8 billion.  A vast number of technology companies including Sony quickly jumped on the band wagon and the market was flooded with e-readers.

Amazon.com success in e-readers later brought Apple in to the book selling market with its iBookstore.  This resulted in Amazon fighting for its dominance in the digital book selling market.  Today it produces a Wi-Fi version of the Kindle, Kindle Fire HD, with an 8.9inch iPad like screen.  Its 16GB model sells for $299 and competes with similar tablets from Google and Apple.  Amazon.com has made several organizational changes within the company to further push its digital agenda.  All these changes and technology advancements are helping its bottom line and the company expects to earn more than $62 billion in 2012.

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