Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Kenya planned to force telecoms operators to share key infrastructure to reduce sabotage sparked by intense rivalry among competitors, a government official said yesterday. Bitange Ndemo, permanent secretary in Kenya’s ministry of information and communication cited frequent cuts to fibre optic cables, which trigger outages, hamper business operations and unnerve investors, as a reason. “We will have
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
KPN’s earnings from mobile phone calls and texting are down because consumers are increasingly using special applications (apps) to access free services over the internet. This includes internet-based telephony such as Skype as well as Facebook and other free messaging services. Read More
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Getmapping subsidiary Geosense, in partnership with Precision Surveys has just completed a successful aerial and ground based acquisition program in the Western Cape focused primarily on the wine producing regions. The program undertaken during February and March of this year captured over 130,000 hectares of vineyards including farms in CapeTown, Hermanus, Grabouw, Stellenbosch, Franschoek and
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
For the time being, the Caribbean islands are almost entirely dependent on oil. Renewable energy plays a negligible role in the region’s energy supply despite the fact that geographical and climate conditions are ideal. Theoretically, the islands could meet all their electricity needs with geothermal energy and hydropower. Slowly but surely, that switch is happening,
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
London 2012 Olympic organisers have published the first environment report for next year’s Games. The report says it is on target to cut the carbon footprint by 100,000 tonnes of carbon emissions in the procurement of materials and venue construction. Organisers say they are on track to deliver the world’s first “truly sustainable” Olympic Games,
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
It is with great pleasure to acknowledge the continuation of the Carl Pulfrich Award by Hexagon Geosystems, the new owner of Intergraph and Z/I Imaging. Please find enclosed the application criterion for the Carl Pulfrich Award 2011. As you know, Dr. Carl Pulfrich founded 1909 The Photogrammetric Week Series as a “Vacation Course in Stereo-Photogrammetry”. I am
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Samara city became the venue of the large-scale photo session, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight. Satellite imagery of the largest square in Europe – the Kuibyshev Square – was carried out during the tele-marathon “Let’s go! 50” in early April 2011. Students of Samara universities lined up forming the
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck Monday, April 18 the northeast coast of New Zealand, announced the American Institute of Geophysics USGS. The Center for the Pacific tsunami warning issued an alert, but felt that there was no risk of a major tidal surge. The earthquake occurred Tuesday at 1 pm local 02 Tuesday
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Top officials from more than 35 nations covering the world’s three major rainforest basin regions will gather at a United Nations-backed conference next month to discuss the common challenges faced by these vital ecosystems that support more than a billion people. The aim of the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Amazon,
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
In 1922, when the tomb of Tutankhamen was discovered in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the tomb was full of treasures, artwork, and other artifacts. In most other tombs that archaeologists discovered, these things had been stolen or vandalized before preservation-minded people could protect them. Tutankhamen’s tomb has stayed largely unmolested up to this day,
