Thursday, May 13th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – An ambitious plan to link several West African capitals by railway links and roads is gaining seeds according to Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade who ended a one day visit here. Addressing the media, Pres. Wade spoke specifically on the need to construct roads and railways to link West African capitals, including Monrovia,
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH – The coalition government is good news for “green” jobs, according to British Gas, which is rapidly increasing its recruitment and retraining of engineers. The energy supplier sees Conservative and Liberal Democrat plans to help households finance renewable power generation and heating equipment as a key moment in the expansion of the market
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
ROSCOSMOS – Rosoboronex port demonstrated GLONASS/GPS transport monitoring systems at SOFEX-2010 exhibition held in Jordan. Presented were remote control systems Eleron-3 and Eleron-10 which provide the opportunity to trace any object. The systems use GLONASS/GPS signals. SOFEX is a premier international exhibition and conference that features the largest fully-integrated Special Operations Forces equipment and solutions
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
MEDIN – The English National Monuments Record (NMR), the public archive of English Heritage, contains over 10 million items and curates large corporate datasets. In 1992, the NMR began the systematic compilation of a record of historic ship wrecks and submerged archaeological sites out to the 12 nautical mile limit. Read More
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
ESA – The Engineering Model of the Galileo In-Orbit Verification satellites has completed several phases of testing in cooperation with the ground segment and is now being prepared for electromagnetic compatibility testing. The second in a series of System Validation Tests (SVT-0B1) has been executed from the Galileo Launch and Early Orbit Phase Operations Control
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
CARBON POSITIVE – The Yasuni-ITT Initiative aims to create ‘carbon bonds’ to preserve a tract of in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest that also holds a lucrative oil resource ripe for exploitation. The carbon bonds would be issued over a government guarantee that oil won’t be extracted from the Yasuni National Park and the forest, its
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
