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
Monday, May 10th, 2010
The European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite has been orbiting the Earth for more than a year and surveying its gravitational field more accurately than any instrument previously. The goal of the researchers is to determine the gravitational force in precise detail even in pathless places like the Himalayas. Evaluations of the first data from the
Monday, May 10th, 2010
STOCKHOLM NEWS – There have been discussions for a long time about using Stockholm’s water for public transports to a larger extent than today. The latest contribution to the debate came yesterday when the Greens presented their ideas for the next electoral term. Read More
Monday, May 10th, 2010
RUSSIA SPACE AGENCY – NPK RECOD continues deployment of high-precise GLONASS/GPS positioning system in Sochi under the governmental contract with Roscosmos. On April 25–28, RECOD employees installed three GLONASS/GPS stations in the region, and selected locations for three more stations. Each station covers a zone of 50–70 km radius. The system of 6 stations is to provide
Monday, May 10th, 2010
EU – Stockholm, Europe’s first ever Green Capital, today showcased two visionary projects as examples of sustainable urban development. At a seminar in Brussels, Mayor of Stockholm Sten Nordin and representatives from the Swedish capital showed how cities across Europe can improve the quality of life for citizens while also looking after the environment. Environment
Monday, May 10th, 2010
ENERGY ENVIRO FINLAND – Russia’s new space monitoring system, “Arktika”, will help to reveal secrets of the Arctic. Four satellites will study the hard-to-reach regions around the North Pole. The first satellite of this system will be launched in three years, according to The Voice of Russia. The development of such a system will guarantee the
