Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
THE ECONOMIST – Modern speech-recognition programs do not merely try to identify individual words as they are spoken; rather, they attempt to match whole chunks of speech with statistical models of phrases and sentences. The rationale is that by knowing statistical rules of thumb for the way in which words are usually put together—an abstract
Monday, July 12th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has said it has concluded arrangement to formally launch the NigerSat-2 high resolution satellite and NigeriaSat-X satellite on October 29, this year with a view to replacing the NigeriaSat-1 in orbit. The new satellites are said to be more advanced compared with the missing NigeriaSat-1
Monday, July 12th, 2010
JERUSALEM POST – Hadash MK Dov Henin once again led the Israel Union for Environmental Defense (IUED) list of top environmental legislators, which was released on Sunday.The environmental NGO examined the legislative record of the first session of the 18th Knesset. This is the eighth year the report has been published. Read More
Monday, July 12th, 2010
TIMES OF MALTA – NGOs have long clamoured for the government to smell the coffee and to take concrete steps to stem the illegal flow of groundwater. Finally, the government did – its proposals aim to ensure that all water bowser suppliers have a specific licence from the Malta Resources Authority, and a tracking system
Monday, July 12th, 2010
MB PHILIPPINES – The National Water Resources Board (NWRB), the lead government agency that regulates the country’s water supply under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), implemented a cut on Metro Manila’s water allocation last Saturday to meet the water demands of at least 12 million consumers until the water level in Angat
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
IODE – The State of Eritrea designated Mr Sammy Mahmud (Managing Director, Marine Resources Division, Ministry of Marine Resources) based in Massawa, as IODE National Coordinator for oceanographic data management. Mr Salih Hassan as been designated as IODE National Coordinator for Marine Information (Library) Management. More info on Mr Mahmud is available here. The IODE community
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
HURRIYET TURKEY – The company’s energy optimization service basically centralizes electrical energy, but also offers packages for all types of energy usage. “The cheapest energy is saved energy,” said Tütengil, adding that Siemens focuses on high performance electricity motors. “There are 15,000 electric motors in Turkey and only 1 percent of the total are low
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
BRGM FRANCE – InfoTerre Geomatics is the gate of access to Geoscience BRGM: Geological maps of 1 / 1 000 000 to 1 / 50 000, records of the Bank’s data logs Basement and geological maps of natural hazards and industrial data on groundwater. InfoTerreTM uses only international interoperability standards published by the Open Geospatial
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
NATURE – The first satellite-derived map of global soil moisture has been unveiled today at the Living Planet Symposium, an Earth-observation conference being held this week in Bergen, Norway. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission — part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) extended ‘living planet’ programme on Earth observation — was launched
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
UUTISET FINLAND – Minister of Housing Jan Vapaavuori says that serious errors on construction are too frequent. According to the newspaper Aamulehti, Vapaavuori would be willing to impose fines for poor building.According to Vapaavuori, the problems in the construction sector stem from factors including haste, indifference, and naiveté on the part of consumers. He calls for
