Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
EU foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton travels the Barents Region this week to discuss EU’s application for permanent observer status in the Arctic Council. Catherine Ashton first travels to Rovaniemi, then Kiruna and finally Svalbard. Read More
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
In a SPIEGEL interview, German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen, 46, discusses the nuclear phase-out, controversial solar power subsidies and why he believes Chancellor Angela Merkel’s energy revolution — which will see the country move to clean energies — is still on track. Read More
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Elimination of direct contacts between Armenian state real estate cadastre’s officers and clients has lessened corruption risks in the system, Ashot Musayelyan, deputy chief of the state real estate cadastre, said Tuesday, when Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan visited Arabkir Office for serving the cadastre’s clients. The president-ordered comprehensive reforms aimed at enhancement of transparency in
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Will Bombardier Inc. be the favourite to snag a £1-billion ($1.6 billion) Crossrail deal in Britain after being stunned last summer by the loss of the £1.4-billion ($2.2 billion) Thameslink Underground contract to Germany’s Siemens AG? Siemens fears it may, as the contract for 60 fast trains between east and west London and a rail yard
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
For the year ended December 31, 2011, Hemisphere GPS reported revenues of $67.8 million, a 21% increase from revenues of $56 million reported in 2010. Growth reported for the first three quarters of 2011 was followed by flat growth in the fourth quarter as market activity in Europe and South America, primarily from OEM’s, was below other regions.
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed a new executive secretary to the Land Management Agency, the Kazakh presidential press-service reported. “According to the President’s order, Abay Ikranbekov is dismissed from the post of the executive secretary of the Kazakh Land Management Agency. Gulzhahan Bimendina was appointed as the executive secretary of the Land Management Agency,” the press-service
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Blom announces the release of version 3.2 of the BlomDESKTOP Viewer, desktop application for geospatial data, with enhanced features and a collection of new functionalities, tools and datasets. The main features of this new version of BlomDESKTOP Viewer are based on enhancing the user experience with new datasets such as the spherical imagery of BlomSTREET™ and
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
AVEVA (LSE:AVV), announced today that GENPRO Engenharia S.A. has made a significant new investment in AVEVA PDMS software after achieving substantial engineering and business benefits from its existing implementation. A key reason for GENPRO’s selection of PDMS is the software’s ability to easily interface with other engineering disciplines, while delivering the highest possible production output. The result has been
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. This is also an investigation
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
The ocean is becoming an increasingly crowded place. New users, such as the wind industry, compete with existing users and interests for space and resources. With the federal mandate for comprehensive ocean planning made explicit in the National Ocean Policy, the need for the transparent evaluation of potential tradeoffs is now greater than ever. A study
