Friday, November 18th, 2011
Niklas Zennström, the co-founder of Skype, is only the latest entrepreneur and investor to jump on the Berlin high-tech bandwagon. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with him about why people want to be in the city, what the scene in the German capital is missing and why the start-ups appear to be immune to economic crises. Read More
Friday, November 18th, 2011
ow do you map something 238,856 miles away? You can’t just send out a team of surveyors. At least, you couldn’t until relatively recently. Before then, lunar cartographers (technically, selenographers) could only rely on telescopes and their own artistic ability to draw a detailed portrait of the lunar face. They managed some pretty dazzling results.
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Epson has just unveiled its latest home cinema and enterprise multimedia projectors based on its 3LCD technology. Among the entries are the MG-850HD, EH-TW6000 and EH-TW8000 entertainment-oriented models, which have garnered two world firsts according to the company. Read More
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Users of Aligned Assets’ gazetteer management systems have dominated this year’s National Gazetteer Exemplar Awards. With entry open to public sector bodies across England and Wales, the Awards were designed to showcase best practice in the use of gazetteers, foster innovation, recognise and reward hard work in the local government community, and to provide a benchmark
Friday, November 18th, 2011
ICT is being used in many ways to help with disaster & conflict early-warning, management & resolution and for peacebuilding; this map offers a resource of who is doing what worldwide. It captures the large variety of activities carried out in projects, programmes and initiatives at various levels of society and decision-making; their content ranges
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Esri UK reveals that Nottingham is the UK’s #1 ‘Smart Meter City’ – based on the potential for smart meters to benefit consumers by reducing electricity consumption and household bills. The study conducted in partnership with the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) identified two key zones of the UK as smart meter hotspots
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Russia’s second Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) satellite with enhanced features, called GLONASS-K, is expected to be carried into orbit in February 2012, satellite maker Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems said, RIA Novosti reported. The exact date was not provided. The first GLONASS-K satellite was put into orbit in February 2011. Read More
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
55 new papers on sustainability impact assessment have been published in EFI’s Technical Report series. The reports are deliverables and results from the EU FP6 Integrated Project EFORWOOD – Tools for Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Forestry-Wood Chain. EFI was one of the 38 partners in the project, which ran from 2005 to 2010.
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
RoK-FOR is a three-year 1.7 million euro EU FP7 project, which aims to connect the forestry sectors of five partner European regions (North Karelia, Croatia-Serbia, Baden-Wurttemberg, Aquitaine-Basque country and Catalonia. It focuses on the fields of bio-energy, bio-based products and wood construction.
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Environment Minister Richard Benyon today made the following Written Ministerial Statement: As part of the Government’s commitment to implementing in full the provisions of the Marine and Coastal Access Act, we are creating a network of national protected areas in British seas to ensure our underwater wildlife flourishes in years to come. We are clear that
