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Monday, May 30th, 2011

Qualcomm Incorporates GPS and GLONASS Into Products

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced the Company’s product support for the Russian GLONASS satellite system and the unique capability to utilize both the GPS and GLONASS networks simultaneously for greater location performance. The additional signals from this expanded satellite network provide more accurate location information for the growing number of location based applications and

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Garmin’s G500H Receives TCCA Validation for Installation in Eurocopter

Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. and Rotorcraft Services Group, an industry leader in helicopter and aircraft services, today announced that Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) has validated the Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for installation of Garmin’s G500H glass cockpit in Eurocopter AS350B2, AS350B3 and/or EC130B4 helicopters. With this validation, authorized Garmin dealers

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Bentley Systems’ Greg, Keith, Barry, and Ray Bentley Honored With George Washington Medal

Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced at this annual gathering of infrastructure professionals that Greg Bentley, CEO; Keith Bentley, CTO; Barry Bentley, executive VP; and Ray Bentley, executive VP, have been named the 2011 recipients of the George Washington Medal by the Engineers’ Club of Philadelphia. The award acknowledges outstanding contributions to technological progress through engineering management.

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Green Economy Critical for Sustainable Development

The adverse effects of climate change on environmental sustainability and human wellbeing is forcing most countries to move away from the “brown’’ or traditional economy to the “green’’ economy — a viable option for sustainable development. The concept has been described by environmentalists as a powerful new paradigm in the 21st century offering creative solutions to

Monday, May 30th, 2011

ADSIC Wins the Arab eContent Award 2011

Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Center (ADSIC) won the Arab eContent Award 2011, in its second edition held recently, for the geospatial portal “Geoportal.Abudhabi.ae,” in the “e-Government” category. The Award was given during the Bahrain International eGovernment Forum, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Government Committed to Protecting Ecology

A speech by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah was delivered by Prince Turki bin Nasser, head of the Presidency for Meteorology and Environment (PME), which highlighted the government’s efforts to protect environment. Nasser was greeted with two enthusiastic songs of welcome from children and later he toured the exhibition that is being held

Monday, May 30th, 2011

City Mapped, Database to be Used from Aug 1

The capital has about 48 lakh buildings, 3 lakh manholes and nearly 17,000 kilometres of running road length. All this information is part of the extensive database that captures the demographics of the capital and utilities like stormwater drains, sewer lines, infrastructure projects and urban planning details under Delhi State Spatial Database. Starting August 1, all state

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Greenland’s Premier Welcomes Cairn Plans

Edinburgh oil explorer Cairn Energy outlined its $600 million (£371m) drilling plans for Greenland this summer as the firm continues its campaign to discover oil in the Arctic. The four wells off the western coast of Greenland target reservoirs that could contain up to 3.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent, Cairn said in a statement.  Read

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

Sweden Stops Norway’s Plans of Express Train to Europe

The Swedish Ministry of Transportation will not permit express trains that run more than 250 km/hour, and therefore puts a stop to Norway’s plans of building a 3-hour express train that runs through Gothenburg to Copenhagen- Norwegian Politicians’ plan was to let express trains run from Oslo to Gothenburg and Stockholm, and from there build a

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

Coming to Grips with the Costs of Moscow Traffic

With Moscow roads legendary for their congestions and chaos and the costs they impose on business needing to use them, Business RT talked to Erwin Toplak, Chief Operating Officer of global traffic management systems provider KapschTrafficCom Austria. 

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