Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
BBC – Google has announced a “new approach” in its ongoing battle with China over censorship. Until recently, the firm automatically redirected Chinese users to its unfiltered search site in Hong Kong to get round censorship issues. Google has said it will now stop this after Beijing warned it could lose its licence to operate
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Cisco announced the signing of a strategic Letter of Intent (“LOI”) with Living PlanIT, a leading urban technology company that enables intelligent sustainable urban development and operations. The LOI sees the expanded collaboration of two visionary companies with complementary skills, capabilities, technologies, and solutions to create smart, sustainable communities of the future. The strategic collaboration
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
NORWAY POST – Norway’s energy producer Statoil has this week installed the first foundations at sea for the new, large Sheringham Shoal offshore wind project off the Norfolk coast in Great Britain. Over the next nine months, the lift vessel “Svanen” will install the remaining 89 foundations ready for the mounting of two substations and
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
VOICE OF RUSSIA -The Russian research vessel ‘Akademik Fyodorov’ is leaving Murmansk July 15th on a mission to confirm conjectures that the undersea Lomonosov Ridge and the Mendeleev Rise in the Central Arctic Ocean are extensions of the Arctic shelf of Siberia. Under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, this
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
IGN is currently finalizing an offer that will allow any publisher or developer who wishes to incorporate within its own consumer applications for mobile phones smart cards and pictures of the Geoportal (these applications are typically downloaded by consumers through a store online application online). This offer is an operation of data service for private
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Student architects are discovering inspiring new ways to perform in teams, even across great distances using the Internet as a virtual design studio. Forty college students from North America recently demonstrated the power of long-distance collaborative design using GRAPHISOFT’s ArchiCAD to co-design fictional projects such as visitor centers for Alcatraz, monuments for Detroit, and facilities
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
GIT4NDM 2010 has become a very important meeting due to the series of disasters shaking the Asian Region in 2008. We are still haunted by the calamity of Tsunami of 2004. Indonesia keeps on reeling under numerous earthquakes. The world scientific community has a great responsibility to enhance the effort on development of technology for
Tuesday, June 29th, 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, June 29th, 2010
Extending its best-in-class logistics and transportation management capabilities, Oracle today announced the integration of Oracle® Transportation Management 6.1 with Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0. The seamless integration of Oracle Transportation Management 6.1 with Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 allows customers to benefit from a single platform designed to lower transportation costs, reduce operational inefficiencies and
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Flash floods by the concentrated heavy rains occurred on June 15, 2010 (UTC) at the department of Var in the southern France, and this caused great damage. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have performed the emergency observation to monitor the state of the damage by the Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type 2
