CrowdFlower offers enterprise crowdsourcing serviceComputerworldSo far, it has named EBay and Microsoft as early adopters. EBay used the service to verify information provided for products posted on its Web site. By using CrowdFlower, EBay found it could cut costs by 70% over hiring its own workers — and get …and …

Ask Those Who Know: Oracle BI Applications on Teradata Deliver Big ValueMarketWatch (press release)"At eBay we significantly accelerated our project time-to-value by implementing Oracle BI Applications on Teradata," said Rajeev Guliani, Senior Manager, Enterprise Applications and Software Development, eBay. "The established technical integration …and more » More: continued here

Boston Globe Congress Is Stealing the Post Office's Lunch Money!Reason Online (blog)The American Postal Workers Union took out some ads this summer aimed at convincing the American people that the US Postal Service is not a big black hole of taxpayer dollar suckitude. And the ads are pretty convincing: The …

Marketing Week Royal Mail to introduce mark on DM in new yearMarketing WeekRoyal Mail is to press ahead with its controversial plans to introduce a “delivered by…” mark on direct mail but is set to concede ground to the industry by using already reserved space on envelopes. It is thought …

Cash point and post office still on the agenda for SouthminsterChelmsford Weekly NewsSouthminster could be about to regain a post office and a cash machine in one foul swoop, as long as plans to move the ATM from the current Barclays building are accepted. A planning application to install a …

RetailWire (registration) Mobile now accounts for more than 10% of all UK eBay purchasesInternetRetailing.netAs more consumers use their smartphones for everything from price comparison to shopping, sales through mobile now account for more than 10% of all purchases on eBay UK. The UK continues to lead the way for mobile …

Closed Caption Time Stamping BreakthroughMarketWatch (press release)ATS time stamps automatically, saving both time and money. Advantages include: — The time stamping process is much faster than real-time (15 to 30 times faster, depending on the speed of your computer). — Allows you to time stamp captions on an …and more » …

Short game concerns StampsMontreal GazetteLewis will have that opportunity today when the 7-4 Stamps resume practice, this time in preparation for their game against the 5-6 Hamilton Tiger-Cats in Moncton, NB, on Sunday. The game is technically a home date for the Ticats, which is probably a …Time for Stamps …

Scotland Courier Royal Mail recruiting seasonal staff in bid to prevent repeat of last winter's …Scotland CourierBroughty Ferry councillor Derek Scott and East End representative Christina Roberts are hopeful that deliveries should be trouble-free following Royal Mail's announcement it will take on 20 temporary workers throughout the festive … More: …

As the USPS mulls cutting a day of delivery, some firms could get hurt. More: continued here