Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Last year at a conference in London I was told by someone that Google Maps’ John Hanke was changing roles and that Marissa Mayer had taken over Local. The latter was obviously proven out by very public announcements. An article in Forbes now confirms Hanke’s role as the head of a new Google “entrepreneurial lab”
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade has granted 133 million euros in aid to 73 projects to deploy broadband infrastructure within the 2010 edition of the program to foster new telecommunications networks in 2011 will offer up to 200 million . In a statement , the department headed by Miguel Sebastian said that the aid
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Communications giant BT is to install £3m worth of equipment to make Londonderry the first city in Ireland and one of the first in the UK to be totally connected via fibre-optic broadband. The move comes as BT was yesterday unveiled as the first major partner for Derry in the run-up to its inaugural year as
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
The Bulgarian Executive Agency for Exploration and Maintenance of the Danube River has raised a warning for the sector of the the city of Svishtov due to the think fog which hampers navigation. The fog, which has formed just above the water surface, is a result of the combination of positive water temperatures and negative air
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Learning from the chaos caused by snow on the roads and trains in early December. That was the purpose of the roundtable, Monday, January 10, Department of Ecology. Read More
Monday, January 10th, 2011
The Finnish city of Turku and Tallinn in Estonia – European Capitals of Culture for 2011 – have decided to cooperate to draw wider attention to the poor state of the Baltic Sea. Turku and Tallinn share approximately ten mutual projects to showcase their geographical proximity as well as cultural and ethnic affinity. According to
Monday, January 10th, 2011
The telephone line connecting a residence to a local exchange (called “central office” in America) consists of a pair of plastic-coated copper wires that are twisted together along their length. The idea of the twisted-pair was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1881 to cancel out any electromagnetic interference and crosstalk between adjacent lines. Read
Monday, January 10th, 2011
People act differently when they are being watched. It’s a fact that authoritarian regimes have long exploited to suppress dissent. But watchfulness can also work to the good and perhaps even stop atrocities. That’s the premise behind the Satellite Sentinel Project, a collaboration between Google, the United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), the Harvard Humanitarian
Monday, January 10th, 2011
The water level in the Maas river in Limburg province will remain high or week but no major floods are expected, the local waterboard said on Sunday. ‘The peak in Roermond went by without problems and we expect the river to be at its highest in Venlo on Monday evening,’ the spokesman told the Volkskrant. Read
Monday, January 10th, 2011
As per report of sources, a group of 54 students has been working on the project ‘SRMSAT’ since 2008 to develop a nano-satellite. The report further added that the weight of satellite was only 10 Kg and it was being develop to monitor greenhouse gases. Reportedly, the estimated cost of project is 1 crore. The satellite
