Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – German rail operator Deutsche Bahn has said it will pump over 40 billion euros ($51.5 billion) into operations over the next four years, which marks the largest investment in the company’s history. Read More
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
TELEGRAPH UK – Growing demand for 3D video games will in turn drive the uptake of 3D television, according to a senior executive at Ubisoft, one of the world’s biggest game publishers. By 2013, 3D TV will be in all UK homes, said Murray Pannel, head of marketing for Ubisoft in the UK. Read More
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
THE ECONOMIST – Modern speech-recognition programs do not merely try to identify individual words as they are spoken; rather, they attempt to match whole chunks of speech with statistical models of phrases and sentences. The rationale is that by knowing statistical rules of thumb for the way in which words are usually put together—an abstract
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Emissions from land use change, mainly tropical forest loss, contribute an estimated 17.4% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC 2007). The maintenance and enhancement of natural carbon stocks, e.g. through Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD), is now considered a key climate change mitigation measure. Read More
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher® cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager® spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop® is pleased to announce that the upcoming release of Geographic Imager, version 3.2, will include the ability to dynamically apply terrain shading and colourization to digital elevation models within Adobe Photoshop. The Geographic Imager Terrain Shader functionality
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
This year as part of the ESRI User Conference in San Diego we are holding a GeoDesign Track, a day long program of presentations encompassing the world of GeoDesign and GIS. The track is composed of four sessions. All sessions will happen in the Marriot Marina, room Salon F, with the exception of the lunch
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
The International Conference on GeoInformatics for Spatial-Infrastructure Development in Earth & Allied Sciences (GIS-IDEAS) is scheduled to take place in Hanoi, Vietnam, 9-11 December 2010. GIS-IDEAS 2010 is being organized by JVGC and Hanoi University of Mining and Geology (HUMG). GIS-IDEAS 2010 is the fifth in the series of very successful Conferences, with first and second been held
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
British Gas today unveiled version 2 of its iPhone meter reading application, which makes it even easier for customers to keep track of their energy bills, monitor their energy use over time and submit meter readings to avoid estimated bills. Almost 100,000 customers have downloaded the App since November when British Gas became the first
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
In 2010 IDTechEx find that the value of the entire RFID market will be $5.63 billion, up from $5.03 billion in 2009. This includes tags, readers and software/services for RFID cards, labels, fobs and all other form factors. In total, 2.31 billion tags will be sold this year, up from 1.98 billion in 2009. Most
Monday, July 12th, 2010
In 1999, an earthquake along the North Anatolian fault killed some 30,000 people in western Turkey. There is some evidence that another segment closer to the densely populated city of Istanbul could be next to rupture, which could create worse devastation. A team of Turkish, American and French scientists are on a Turkish research ship
