Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
UK broadband speeds drop by an average of 35% from their off-peak highs when most people are online in the evening, according to a report. The research, conducted by the comparison site Uswitch, was based on two million broadband speed tests. Read More
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
The Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography will make information about the real estate transactions it handles public and publish the average price for real estate in every region. The agency, known as Rosregister, spent 52 million rubles ($1.72 million) to create the new service, which will be launched before the end of the month, the register’s deputy director, Sergei Sapelnikov, told Vedomosti. Read More
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
The Galileo program is Europe’s initiative for a state-of-the-art global satellite navigation system, providing a highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning service under civilian control. The fully deployed system will consist of 30 satellites and the associated ground infrastructure. The Galileo program is managed by the European Union and the European GNSS Agency (GSA) for a
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Shortly before the 2009 UN climate summit in Copenhagen, many companies got into green. The summit was expected to lead to new regulations restricting greenhouse-gas emissions. Dozens of chief executives came to see history being made and to be seen on the right side of it. But Copenhagen was a flop. Most firms turned their
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
By 3 January 2012, we will have installed 188 signals, 80 sets of points and a new level crossing on the routes from Sittingbourne to Minster via Ramsgate, and Faversham to Buckland Junction (near Kearsney) via Canterbury East. The old 1950s system of levers, bells and pullies to control signals and points will have been replaced
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty which launches today with its first project in Nicaragua, empowers individuals in developed countries to tackle both climate change and global poverty. COTAP.org transparently connects individuals’ carbon footprints with accredited forestry carbon projects in least developed countries which create meaningful and measurable economic benefits for the poorest people in the world.
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
After the recent launch of the first Galileo satellites – an event of paramount political importance for Europe – politicians, policymakers, space agency managers, industrialists, satellite operators and members of civil society gathered at the European Parliament in Brussels on 8–9 November for the 4th Conference on EU Space Policy. The Conference, devoted to the benefits
Monday, November 14th, 2011
Czech mountains are markedly less polluted than they were in the mid-1980s and the early 1990s and the Jizerské hory and the Krušné hory (Ore Mountains) in northern Bohemia whose forests were dying in the 1970s are among the cleanest now. Read More
Monday, November 14th, 2011
The final cost of the controversial Corrib Gas project is now set to be close to €3 billion and it may be late 2014 before gas is finally flowing from the field. The revised cost estimate emerges from documents just filed with the companies office here by Shell EP Ireland Ltd. The accounts show the total outlay
Monday, November 14th, 2011
The UAE’s election to the board of the UN educational, scientific and cultural agency is recognition of the respect the country has gained for its international efforts in a variety of fields, academics said yesterday. “It is a seat at the most senior position on Unesco that comes with privileges, influence and responsibility,” said Dr Christina
