Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
GRAPHISOFT today announced ArchiCAD 14, the latest version of its award-winning architectural design software. ArchiCAD 14 continues the company’s innovation in model-based design collaboration by offering intelligent workflow solutions to the extended design team. ArchiCAD 14 continues delivering productivity improvements for architects throughout the full cycle of the BIM workflow with a specific focus
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Five Ashtech ProFlex 500 GNSS receivers are helping guide the operations of the self-propelled jack-up vessel Bard Wind Lift I, the first construction vessel specially designed for installing offshore wind turbines, to build the first commercial wind farm in the German North Sea. The Ashtech GNSS receivers are used for every maneuver of Wind Lift
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Incorporating environmental parameters to the production processes is now an undeniable need worldwide. And our country is a pioneer in pursuing this policy, as evidenced by the recent fi rmed agreement between the Ministry of Environment of the Nation and the international workers’ organization UNI-Americas, a cooperation agreement to expand and strengthen the environment model
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – The Norwegian settlement in Ny-Ålesund on the northwestern part of Spitzbergen will soon have the world’s northernmost fiber-optic data connection. A project which will provide the world with easier access to important data from the observatories in Ny-Ålesund. Ny-Ålesund is already the world’s northernmost settlement and a center for international research. 10
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
L’EXPRESS FRANCE – The ECER (European Cities Entrepreneurship Ranking) with Banque Populaire publishes rankings of the 37 most attractive European cities, in the opinion of some 4,500 opinion leaders in business less than 3 years old. A classification performed on five criteria: entrepreneurship, environment, support before and after the creation of financial aid. It gives rise to
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
IRISH MARINE INSTITUTE – The Irish ports and shipping sectors began to show positive signs of recovery towards the last quarter of 2009 following a record fall in volumes earlier in the year as the downturn in the economy bit hardest, according to the latest edition of the Irish Maritime Transport Economist recently indicated at
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
EL MUNDO SPAIN – The world has not succeeded in reducing biodiversity loss by 2010 as proposed by the UN, so it is necessary to take more effective measures and to rethink fundamental issues such as excessive consumption in industrialized countries and the low valuation of natural capital within current economic system. According to a
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
MASHABLE – Today, IBM is introducing a new social media monitoring tool, one that it says will measure consumer sentiment from data gathered on Twitter, blogs and other web services and networks. The software, called the SPSS Modeler data mining and text analytics workbench, will use natural language processing (NLP) to analyze everything from product
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
The term “geomatics” has evolved from two disciplines : geography and informatics (computer science), to designate the combination of both into a new scientific field for the data processing of geographic information. More precisely, this includes the acquisition, management, analysis and distribution of geographic data in print or online. Read More
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Siemens has supplied both technical expertise and operational support to the groundbreaking HSL (High-Speed Line) railway line in the Netherlands, which, by connecting the country to the European high-speed railway network for the first time, has opened new opportunities for the regional economy. Read More
