Saturday, July 10th, 2010
UUTISET FINLAND – Minister of Housing Jan Vapaavuori says that serious errors on construction are too frequent. According to the newspaper Aamulehti, Vapaavuori would be willing to impose fines for poor building.According to Vapaavuori, the problems in the construction sector stem from factors including haste, indifference, and naiveté on the part of consumers. He calls for
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
TAGYA – According to the press service, the presentation of the first vice-governor of the Kemerovo region, Valentin Mazikin said that the project will make a qualitative breakthrough in the production of grain, vegetables, potatoes. The company “Vaganova” in the project an electronic map of farmland, which allows you to see the acreage, chemical processing and
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Le MONDE FRANCE – Crise forces, energy consumption has declined in France in 2009, 5.2% from 2008 to 259 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe). This led to the fall of CO2, a decrease of 5.7% (- 1.2% in 2008). The renewable energy production (heat and electricity from hydro, wind and photovoltaics) reached 19.9 Mtoe in
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
SCOTLAND GOV – The quality of the built environment affects everyone in Scotland. It is the purpose of architecture and urban design not only to meet our practical needs in housing our activities, but also to respond to the social and cultural values to which we as a nation aspire – to improve the quality
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The company that tried to sell a Mozambican island over the Internet has lost its land use rights, reports Friday’s issue of the weekly paper “Savana”. The company, Venus Comercial, obtained rights to Congo island, in the Quirimbas archipelago, off the coast of the northern province of Cabo Delgado in 2008. The
Friday, July 9th, 2010
BBC – UK Science Minister David Willetts is to say that there is an economic case for Britain to have a strong research base. In his first major speech on science at the Royal Institution, Mr Willetts is to argue the case for scientific research in an age of austerity. Under the previous government spending
Friday, July 9th, 2010
WALL ST JOUR – MapQuest, the No. 2 Internet-mapping service after Google’s, is taking the first steps toward a Wikipedia-like model — in which users would generate the maps themselves and combine the results for everyone to use. The company, a subsidiary of AOL, plans to announce Friday morning that it is launching a site
Friday, July 9th, 2010
ITAR TASS – Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev suggests to unify the technological basis of the projects to make digital versions of regional museums’ collections and libraries’ funds. This may be done on the basis of the so-called free software, he said at the presidential Council on the development of the information society on Thursday. Read
Friday, July 9th, 2010
CSIRO – CSIRO is partnering with China United Coalbed Methane Corporation Limited(CUCBM) on a A$10 million joint demonstration project that will store 2000tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) underground in the Shanxi Province andextract methane for use as an energy source. Read More
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Geosparc, the company commercially supporting the open source GIS application framework Geomajas, today unveiled a new suite of commercial licenses as part of an expanded strategy targeted at providing the Geomajas technology to companies that want to build commercial applications with it or that want to buy a license to use the technology for internal
