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The technology Microsoft is offering allows a postal service, the package sender and the receiver to view exactly where a package is at all times. It also notifies a receiver when the package will arrive and alerts senders via MSN Messenger or mobile phone Short Message Service after it has been signed for at its destination.
"Most postal services worldwide are trying to adopt this [type of] technology. Microsoft paid some sponsorship for this show because we'd like to provide this technology to Taiwan's post office," said Dragon Shyy, a senior consultant at the Microsoft Technology Center in Taipei.
The technology Microsoft is offering allows a postal service, the package sender and the receiver to view exactly where a package is at all times. It also notifies a receiver when the package will arrive and alerts senders via MSN Messenger or mobile phone Short Message Service after it has been signed for at its destination.
"Most postal services worldwide are trying to adopt this [type of] technology. Microsoft paid some sponsorship for this show because we'd like to provide this technology to Taiwan's post office," said Dragon Shyy, a senior consultant at the Microsoft Technology Center in Taipei.