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• Data2Images, a new service from Data2Logistics, LLC makes it quick and easy for clients to store and retrieve critical shipping documents including complete transport contracts, freight bills, bills of lading, and delivery receipts.

  Client transportation documents are scanned and made available in a secure web-based environment, allowing shippers immediate access to their carrier contracts and related attachments anywhere they have Internet access. This web-based tool provides companies with a single source for all of their transportation document information.
  

• Delfour (WMS,3PL,ASP) ---- Franklin Express has gone live with an Application Service Provider (ASP) version of Delfour Corporation's SmartEnterprise 2 third party logistics (3PL) management software system, it was announced by Franklin Express President Roy Reasonover and Delfour President & CEO Joe E. Couto. SmartEnterprise 2 replaced a custom-coded system that had long been in use at the company.
  
  
• Prophet 21, (ERP, WMS) announces the acquisition of Trade Service Systems, Inc., a division of TradePower, a technology provider of enterprise software solutions for electrical distributors.
  
  
  
• SSA Global announced it has acquired Marcam, a provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for process manufacturers, from Invensys plc. SSA Global is on a buying spree. In 2003 the company aquired Ironside Technologies Inc, Elevon Inc. Baan, and EXE Technologies Inc..

  This year, SSA Global acquired Arzoon Inc., (TMS, logistics, Global Trade).

  
  
• SAMSys Technologies Inc. (SMY: TSX) announced the release and productions of its new multi-protocol OEM Reader Module or MP9310. This single port reader is specifically designed for manufacturers of thermal transfer barcode printers, laser printers and printer applicator designs for the supply chain and manufacturing markets.
  
  
• Symbol Agrees to buy Matrics. Symbol announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Matrics, Inc., (RFID tags - EPC compliant).
  
  
• Tharo Systems announces New Version of EASYLABEL with RFID Wizard. Currently supported printers are the RFID enabled Zebra and Printronix thermal transfer label printers; with more printer drivers being added as other printer manufacturers add RFID capabilities to their printers. EASYLABEL has an EAN/UCC-128 Wizard that makes creating EAN/UCC-128s a simple 4-step process. The Wizard simply prompts you for the required information and then builds the bar code automatically! Even codes with multiple Application Identifiers are quick and easy to create with EASYLABEL's EAN/UCC Wizard.

  EASYLABEL includes USB printing with its super fast bi-directional data transfer, compliance tools for the FDA 21 CFR Part 11 regulation, European multi-lingual Risk and Safety phrases for Hazardous Chemical labeling regulations and much more. EASYLABEL 5 supports Microsoft's ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO) providing access to all kinds of data sources.