Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
In a SPIEGEL interview, German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen, 46, discusses the nuclear phase-out, controversial solar power subsidies and why he believes Chancellor Angela Merkel’s energy revolution — which will see the country move to clean energies — is still on track. Read More
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Elimination of direct contacts between Armenian state real estate cadastre’s officers and clients has lessened corruption risks in the system, Ashot Musayelyan, deputy chief of the state real estate cadastre, said Tuesday, when Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan visited Arabkir Office for serving the cadastre’s clients. The president-ordered comprehensive reforms aimed at enhancement of transparency in
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed a new executive secretary to the Land Management Agency, the Kazakh presidential press-service reported. “According to the President’s order, Abay Ikranbekov is dismissed from the post of the executive secretary of the Kazakh Land Management Agency. Gulzhahan Bimendina was appointed as the executive secretary of the Land Management Agency,” the press-service
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Whether navigating with GPS, or find a card on the Internet: Using spatial data more and more people go into their private lives. It is therefore logical that the annual “FOSSGIS” conference on 20 to 22 March in Dessau, not only is open to professionals who deal professionally with geographic information systems (GIS), but also interested laymen. Theme of
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Electronics giant Philips is planning to sell its High Tech Campus in Eindhoven to private investor Marcel Boekhoorn, the Telegraaf reports on Monday, citing sources in the property sector. The paper says Boekhoorn is planning to take over the business park for some €450m and the deal has almost been finalised. Boekhoorn currently owns free newspaper
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Based on geographic coordinates which are input to a GPS device, the group is led to certain waypoints. Once there, it means staying eyes. This notice must be somewhere a next. But where? And how does it look? “If a stone pile in the woods is going, attentive. Is off to the not nature here, “says Corinn. And then the discovery between
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
“Since we started in January at CES 2012, the first time vorführten the contribution of our innovative MEMS sensors for this unique CSR positioning technology and platform, we have requests from several of our Tier One customers receive the interest in this combination solution expressed, “Fabio Pasolini, general manager explained the division at STMicroelectronics MEMS
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Graziers throughout north and central Queensland will soon be able to learn more about land management with an online training program. The program will be trialled in the coming months and rolled out across the state from June. Beef extension officer Jane Hamilton, from the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI), says the internet is
Monday, March 5th, 2012
In an emergency, minutes matter. With this knowledge, University of Georgia researchers developed a new method for determining where emergency vehicle stations should be located. The results of their work could improve ambulance response time for the 200 million Americans who dial 911 each year, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Read More
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Come Election Day, many Illinois voters may find themselves in unfamiliar territory, in a state legislative or congressional district with boundaries far different from they belonged to in the last election. In a nutshell, that’s because of redistricting — a once-a-decade exercise in which boundaries are supposed to be redrawn based on population shifts. This year,
