Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
KENYA DAILY NATION – An ambitious strategy to guide the planning, development and growth of towns has been unveiled. The government initiative, is to enable all urban centres exploit their potential irrespective of size or location. Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi said it will be required, as a matter of public policy, that any physical development such as
Monday, November 1st, 2010
The data protection solution provided by Envault Corporation secures the contents of removable media through envaulting. The innovation allows enterprises to retain absolute control of the only key that opens encrypted data. The ubiquitous flash drive represents one of the most common corporate data security risks. Until now, practically the only means to protect sensitive data
Monday, November 1st, 2010
TEKES – This emerging trend is highlighted in the research project conducted by the University of Tampere and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT. With the advent of digital distribution, contemporary games witness a constant flow of content updates. New levels, characters and other forms of downloadable content importantly lengthen the lifecycle of digital games. In connection
Monday, November 1st, 2010
One of the major challenges of using spatial information is transferring points from a spherical object, like the earth, and displaying them on a two dimensional map. The sciences of geodesy and surveying are used by cartographers to accomplish this task. Unfortunately there is not just one way to project points to a flat map.
Sunday, October 31st, 2010
International conference on spatial data infrastructures 2010 has been held from 15th to 17th September 2010 at FON University in Skopje, Macedonia. The conference was organized by Geo-SEE (South-East Europe Research Association on Geo Sciences).
Sunday, October 31st, 2010
Topcon Europe Positioning B.V. announces that Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS, Livermore, California) has acquired InlandGEO, one of Topcon’s top performing distributors. InlandGEO is headquartered in Madrid, Spain, and has four additional offices in Spain, two in Portugal and one in the Canary Islands. In addition to continuing to distribute Topcon and Sokkia positioning products to the construction and survey markets in Spain and Portugal,
Sunday, October 31st, 2010
At midnight tonight, the world’s largest fully protected marine reserve will come into force in the British territorial waters of the Chagos Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean. But this new sanctuary, designated as a “no-take” zone where commercial fishing will be banned, serves to underline how catastrophically the international community has fallen short of a
Sunday, October 31st, 2010
TUNISIA ONLINE – As instructed by President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi chaired the opening of the International Conference on the Tunisian Solar Plan, with attendance of several Government members, representatives from several sisterly and friendly countries, financing structures and energy-field active associations. Read More
Sunday, October 31st, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – “Oh no. Do I need to attempt a succinct explanation of geomatics?” asks Professor David Parker of the University of Newcastle. “Well, I could say something long-winded based on the way we take measurements of the earth, but essentially we do SatNav and Google Earth – professionally. So whereas most people use
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – The results of a UN-sponsored report on the economics of biodiversity loss, called TEEB, were delivered at this year’s Convention on Biodiversity in Japan. The study outlined a path for a radical rethink of economics. Read More