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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
During a meeting in CNET’s offices, Kanwar Chadha, CMO of CSR Technology, noted that all content is becoming location-aware. Smartphone apps and navigation devices can tailor information to a user’s personal surroundings. Taking advantage of that trend, Chadha’s company, which provides GPS chips for navigation devices, has developed a new generation of products that can
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
The Siberian State Academy of Geodesy and the International Exhibition Operator “InterGeoSiberia”, and World Trade Center-Novosibirsk would like to take this opportunity to invite you to participate in the 8th International specialized exhibition and scientific congress “Interexpo GeoSiberia-2012” which will be held on April 17-19, 2012 in the centre of Novosibirsk at the Business Center
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
The first European Conference on GeoDesign will be held together with the 13th annual International Conference on Information Technology in Landscape Architecture at Anhalt University in Bernburg and Dessau, Germany from 31 May – 2 June 2012. According to Ervin (2011) Geodesign projects leverage the powers of digital computing and communications technologies to foster collaborative, information-based environmental design,
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
A project to reconstruct a Russian Orthodox Church located in the Czech Republic has deployed state of the art 3D laser scanning technology to quickly and accurately measure existing conditions; slashing survey times and costs. Local survey company, BW Precision Systems, in co-operation with design office Medika Projekt Karlovy Vary, first used a FARO Focus
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
The global insurance major AXA is looking to the high seas for higher growth and margins from its Middle East operations. The insurer has identified underwriting marine-related risks as offering optimum prospects in the medium term. To this end, a new risk management service for marine cargo services in the region is being rolled out. It will
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
In a bid to increase access to electricity among rural population, three micro-hydro power plants were last Thursday inaugurated in Rubavu and Rutsiro districts. The three plants of Keya in Rubavu district, and Cyimbili and Nkora in Rutsiro district, western province, constructed through a Belgian-Rwandese collaboration, have capacity to produce 3.2 Mw which are fed into
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
In parallel with the UK Pavilion at the Taipei World Design Expo, the British Trade & Cultural Office (BTCO) and British Council Taipei co-organised a “UK Creative Design Talk” today, inviting UK experts to share their experience of urban planning, architecture and design, and industrial and product design. Read More
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Russia plans five space launches in November 2011. “The Federal Space Agency intends to launch from Baikonur three Glonass-M satellites , the Phobos Grunt interplanetary research rover , the Soyuz TMA-22 manned spaceship and the AsiaSat-7 satellite ,” says a report posted on the agency website. A
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Norwegian oil and gas supplies to Europe were on the agenda when EU energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger visited the Troll A platform (photo) in the North Sea this weekend. Oettinger was accompanied by Norwegian Oil and Energy minister Ola Borten Moe and Statoil DPN head Øystein Michelsen. Read More
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Telecoms provider BT is accelerating its fibre broadband rollout. It now plans to offer “super-fast” internet speeds to two-thirds of UK premises by the end of 2014. The target is a year ahead of its original plan. The firm says its main product will offer maximum download speeds about 10 times faster than at present, at 70-100Mbps on average.
