Some of these companies do a great job, while others have a different attitude.

The problems are with the smaller carriers, which SYSCO relies on heavily. Small carriers don't have a lot of this information readily available. We ask them to enter the data in our Internet-based transportation management system, but they're not always good about doing it.

Carriers that do enough business with us could drop a full trailer, pick up one of their empty trailers, and go. They don't even have to wait two hours; they can do it in 15 minutes.

We are pleased to provide our middleware to Vodafone K.K. that can contribute to greater security for mobile phones. Because the FSE has the industry's fastest authentication speed for mobile phones, an owner's face can be instantly verified. Going forward, we will provide such solutions to the embedded market for entertainment devices as well as to the mobile phone market by combining FSE with our other products, such as FaceCommunicator-E2.

We are pleased to provide our middleware to Vodafone K.K. that can contribute to greater security for mobile phones. Because the FSE has the industry's fastest authentication speed for mobile phones, an owner's face can be instantly verified. Going forward, we will provide such solutions to the embedded market for entertainment devices as well as to the mobile phone market by combining FSE with our other products, such as FaceCommunicator®-E2 (2).

This is largely an interim measure until multilateral talks are resumed.