Monday, July 18th, 2011
The global community must reach an agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and Russia will continue negotiations to that end, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday. “Though the negotiations were held in a very tough manner, they were still unsuccessful. We will continue the talks, because I personally think that the global community should go
Monday, July 18th, 2011
The United Nations’ forecast of how quickly global sea levels will rise this century is vital in determining how much money might be needed to combat the phenomenon. But predictions by researchers vary wildly, and the attempt to find consensus has become fractious. Read More
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Looking for the latest on bridging the gap between research and policy-making? The fourth issue of Informed Cities Update, the eNewsletter of the Informed Cities initiative explores this and more. Learn about upcoming initiatives that bring together those working on urban research across Europe, such as the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe. Find out about
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
The National Geodetic Reference Framework is the essential foundation on which rests all the mapping of the country. No frame of reference no mapping possible. The National Geographic Institute through the National Law of the Charter and Administrative Provision 526/96, National is responsible for establishing, maintaining, updating and improving the National Geodetic Reference Frame. On this framework perform
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
The project OSM-3d.org becomes a bit more detailed and realistic. Since a couple of weeks, different OSM keys with building roof information (e.g. building:roof, building:roof:shape, building:roof:type, building:roof:angle and building:roof:height) are considered while building model creation. That is, based on this information, an approximate roof geometry is generated at least for simple building shapes in a
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Under the concept of Smart Cities, Smartmatic supplies the most innovative and advanced technological resources to solve the needs of cities in the fields of Public Transportation and Public Safety. “Launching Smart Cities is a response to the need of integrating different technological solutions already offered by Smartmatic and to allow authorities to take care of
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
It seems that some 3D innovators such as XPAND are attempting to kill two birds with one stone: Increase sales in 3D products and do something about falling education standards int he country. XPAND has released its new Education Package, including everything a 3-dimensional classroom would need: XPAND 3D PowerPoint Software to download onto your computer,
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
The newly-appointed CEO of state-owned Bulgartransgaz company, a subsidiary of Bulgargaz, Kiril Temelkov will also be in charge of the Bulgarian firm for the realization of the Nabucco gas transit pipeline. Temelkov is going to serve temporarily as the head of Bulgaria’s “National Nabucco Company” until a suitable person is found to fill the position within the upcoming weeks, Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH, the Nabucco consortium, announced Friday. Read More
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Psychology experiments showed that people presented with difficult questions began to think of computers. When participants knew that facts would be available on a computer later, they had poor recall of answers but enhanced recall of where they were stored.The researchers say the internet acts as a “transactive memory” that we depend upon to remember for
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Edmonton-based Synodon Inc. has won a $350,000 federal contract to use its realSens technology for remote sensing survey services to detect and measure naturally occurring methane seeps in the Canadian Arctic. The project will expand on a successful small scale survey completed in 2009 in conjunction with Natural Resources Canada, and will test the technology’s ability
