Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Blom are pleased to announce the completion of the Data Integration Framework Agreement with Ordnance Survey in the UK. This agreement has been in operation since 2002 and provided Ordnance Survey with aerial imagery and mapping services. These services were used to maintain the currency, accuracy and information content of Ordnance Survey’s core databases.
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Environmental data reported by countries, such as air emissions, air quality, water quality and protected areas data, is essential for understanding, and responding to, environmental change. Since 2000, European countries have significantly improved their delivery of priority environmental data to the European Environment Agency (EEA). Country scoring corresponds to the quality of the data made available
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
ICANN, the organization that governs Internet domain names, has agreed to open the possibility of registering top-level domains, like the present. Com or. Edu, names integers.This will allow a company or a city to register their name as a domain of the Web. Read More
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Satellite navigation system maker TomTom announced on Monday a new free application for iPhone and Android telephones. The app, TomTom Places, allows users to park their car and navigate to their final destination on foot. The app couples the location of a company to that of a user and allows the user to search for a
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
As the Turkish government strives to develop alternative energy supplies, wind-turbine maker Vestas is preparing for tough competition to increase its market share. Speaking to Bloomberg News, Mehmet Ali Neyzi, the managing director in charge of Turkey and the Middle East for Vestas, says the firm currently commands a market share of 30 percent. Read
Monday, June 20th, 2011
It is now almost two years since the announcement that the embattled National Express franchise running along the east coast mainline was to be formally renationalised, establishing a new operator, East Coast Rail, connecting much of the North East and Yorkshire with both London and Scotland. At the time, based on discussions and survey results
Monday, June 20th, 2011
Firefighters and rescuers in Russia's Far East extinguished nine forest fires over the past 24 hours and continue battling 20 more forest fires, the regional emergencies ministry said on Sunday. "Satellite monitoring and aircraft surveillance registered a total of 29 forest fires in the past 24 hours; nine of them were extinguished and nine more
Monday, June 20th, 2011
Fancy travelling from Paris to Tokyo in two and a half hours? Do you yearn for the Concorde days? Aerospace group EADS, owner of planemaker Airbus, thinks it has the answer — a hypersonic jet that flies above the atmosphere, yet takes off from a regular runway. Read more
Monday, June 20th, 2011
The British government could massively subsidise the Irish wind energy industry under proposals to be considered in London today. Britain believes the west coast and the seas around Ireland can provide it with a large amount of its renewable energy and could be willing to subsidise offshore wind farms there. Industry groups here say such a move
Monday, June 20th, 2011
When the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was published in 2007, there was a lack of data on the Arctic, so the panel left a big source of potential sea-level-rise out of its projections for this century. It estimated a conservative rise of about 18 to 59 centimeters. Many scientists have suspected
