Friday, January 19, 2007

Package at Port of Miami found to (Auto parts) be harmless


Package at Port of Miami found to be harmless
A package that was going to be loaded onto a cruise ship at the Port of Miami tested positive six times for plastic explosives today, the Coast Guard said.

New China tariff may attract Taiwanese car-electronics makers
China will implement a new customs tariff scheme on July 1, 2007 in order to protect domestic production of automotive parts, a move that will likely attract Taiwanese makers of automotive electronics to set up factories in China to avoid high custom duties, according to industry sources in Taiwan.

Arrests close part of Port of Miami
A language barrier may have played a role in the incident, officials say. Three legal immigrants in a cargo truck were detained at the Port of Miami on Sunday when concerns raised in a routine inspection prompted federal and local officials to investigate, but police say the incident might have stemmed in part from a language barrier.

ProLogis Leases 282,000 Square Feet in Indianapolis to Subaru
DENVER, Jan. 10 -- ProLogis , the world's largest owner, manager and developer of distribution facilities, announced today that it has leased 282,000 square feet of distribution space in suburban Indianapolis to Subaru of America, Inc.

Industrial OCR Software handles poor quality characters.
Compatible with machine vision hardware powered by Blackfin(TM) DSPs, EconoCR(TM) enables users to create stand-alone industrial OCR systems. Library routine format allows software to be combined with 1D bar and 2D matrix decoding software to produce general-purpose video camera-based automatic identification solutions. Characters to be read can be uniformly or proportionally spaced, dot matrix, ...