Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
The cabinet under Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has decided to establish a company to undertake water and sanitary drainage services in the Suez Canal area. The new company will work under the umbrella of an organizational body to be affiliated to the Housing Ministry, Cabinet Spokesman Magdi Radi said. The meeting was attended by Finance Minster Youssef
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
The UAE’s connection to the rest of the online world will receive a boost after a major submarine telecommunications cable was switched on. Etisalat said the India-Middle East-western Europe (I-ME-WE) cable, a 13,000km submarine broadband connection that crosses three continents, has been activated this month. Read More
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
Carbon offset schemes are linking Western consumers with Nepali farmers, and helping both arrive at a better accommodation with nature. But do they just amount to an expensive way to make a worthy donation? Read More
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
2010 was a year of ups and downs for the smart grid industry. While the sector had one of the hottest acquisition records out of the greentech world (OK, that’s not saying much), most of the startups that were bought seemed to have gone for a small to modest price tag. While the stimulus funds
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
The Ingenieurbüro für Geoinformatik (GisEO) and the geoinformation service provider DELPHI IMM GmbH recently won the contract for the development and realization of a geo portal and web services to supply a comprehensive survey of educational information based on spatial data. The emerging web technology is planned to support education representatives, parents, students as well
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
The GeoInformation Group, publishers of Cities Revealed and UKMap, are pleased to announce the release of Solar Energy Mapping, a brand new product that identifies buildings potentially suitable for solar panel installation. Using highly accurate 3D building information and mapping techniques buildings are identified and graded by the amount of sun they receive to determine their
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
Indra will implement a station network to measure Global Navigations Satellite Systems (GNSS) signals in order to supervise that data used by aircrafts in the German territory are accurate and reliable. The German air navigation services provider, the DFS (Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH), commissioned AC-B (Air Traffic Control & Business Systems), as Indra subsidiary in Germany, with
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. announced that it has received the European Aviation Safety Agency’s (EASA) validation of the U.S. STC (supplemental type certificate) for the installation of the G1000 avionics suite in the King Air 200 and B200.
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
Solibri, Inc., a leading provider of Model Checking, Building Information Model (BIM) analysis and Building Code Checking solutions in the construction field, today announced a Partner Agreement permitting + Arkitektar to sell and market Solibri’s products in Iceland. Read More
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
Flying in a plane over the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea, rainforest stretches like a sea of green, broken only by rugged mountain ranges and winding rivers. The broccoli-like canopy shows little sign of human influence. But as you near Jayapura, the provincial capital of Papua, the tree cover becomes patchier—a sign
