Sunday, October 10th, 2010
BBC – A lightweight pair of augmented reality glasses that overlay the world with digital content, such as directions or a travel guide, has debuted in Japan. The headset, created by Olympus and phone-maker NTT Docomo, uses augmented reality software on an attached phone. Read More
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
HURRIYET TURKEY – Hungarian police and soldiers evacuated 800 villagers Saturday as authorities said a second flood of toxic sludge from a chemicals plant was likely after new cracks appeared in a dyke. Read More
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
EL PAIS – The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade has set a 2015 deadline to completely eliminate the role of the public administration. To implement e-Government by 2015 records will be digitized for all paperwork with complete integration of electronic signatures (electronic ID) and there will be a migration of all records into digital format. Read
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
RIA NOVOSTI – People still have not destroyed the biological diversity of Lake Baikal, deputy director of the Limnological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said on Saturday. “The level of Lake Baikal’s biological pollution is low, it can be compared to the pollution of the Arctic Ocean,” Alexander Suturin said. Read More
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – Managing climate change has become a governance issue. Consequent upon African Development Bank’s (AfDB’s) commitment to both governance and climate change, the institution’s president, Donald Kaberuka, will on Wednesday, October 13, 2010, in Addis Ababa address the first plenary session of the Seventh African Development Forum (ADF-VII) on the theme: “High Level Leadership
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
CROATIA TIMES – Intensive monitoring of the Danube river near Batina village in Osijek-Baranja County has begun amid fears that the Hungarian ecological catastrophe could reach Croatia. Together with the Osijek-Baranja County Department of Public Health, the Hrvatske Vode (Croatian Waters) experts are analyzing water samples on a daily basis and will continue to do so throughout
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
SIFY – Seeing light at the end of the tunnel will be more than just a catch phrase when Swiss engineers blast through the last Alpine granite barrier Oct 15 at the Gotthard Base Tunnel – the world’s longest rail tunnel. After 25 years of planning and construction, that blast will clear the way for a scheduled
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
ROSCOSMOS – Satellite №736 of the GLONASS orbital constellation has been commissioned on Oct. 4. The satellite was launched on Sept. 2, aboard Proton, together with the other two navigation spacecraft. Currently, GLONASS constellation comprises 26 satellites, with 18 in nominal operation, 2- to be commissioned, 4 undergoing technical maintenance, and 2 as orbital backup. Three Glonass-M’s
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
IRISH INDEPENDENT – The Metro North light-rail system linking Dublin city centre with the airport and Swords will cost €2.5bn, a third less than expected. And although the project has yet to be given the green light by government, the Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) has spent €175m to date buying land, carrying out pre-construction work
Friday, October 8th, 2010
NORWAY POST – Statnett has presented its 2010 Grid Development Plan, and is proposing to invest a total of NOK 40 billion in developing and upgrading a new power grid in Norway in the period leading up to 2020. Read More
