Monday, January 2nd, 2012
SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced that Municipality of Recanati in Italy selected SuperGIS Server 3 Value Edition to integrate and distribute large spatial data to multi client users. SuperGIS Server 3 is designed to create, manage, and share various GIS resources across an enterprise via Web effectively.
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
Vestas has received a wind power order for 17 wind turbines V112-3.0 MW turbine for a wind farm in Poland. Vestas has received an order for 17 units of the V112-3.0 MW wind turbine for Poland. The wind power contract comprises supply, installation and commissioning of the wind turbines as well as a 12-year service
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Gecko Systems is a Finnish technology company that has taken an out-of-the box approach to location based services and markets. Instead of thinking of the obvious (which by Nordic standards usually means Western markets, USA, etc.), they have turned east towards Russia and their solutions, namely Glonass, a competitor to the GPS (Global Positioning System).
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
International oil services group, Norway’s Aker Solutions is about to open North America’s most advanced drilling equipment simulator in Houston, Texas. The simulator will be available to rig operators with the objective of making offshore drilling operations safer and more cost effective. Aker Solutions is investing USD 2.5 million in the new state-of-the-art drilling equipment simulator, which will
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Which are the high-growth segments/cash cows and how is the market segmented in terms of applications and materials? What are market estimates and forecasts? Which markets are doing well and which are not? Where are the gaps and opportunities? What is driving the market? Which are the key playing fields? How is the competitive outlook
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
myEnergyPlatform.com is an ambitious project by industry-leading visionaries in New York City’s Commercial Real Estate community to leverage smart grid technology. Launched by Davide Gristina, with funding from serial technology entrepreneur and seed investor Chiranjeev Bordoloi, the platform provides commercial real estate owners and managers a set of high-tech tools to maximize energy management efficiency
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Autodesk, Inc.has acquired certain technology-related assets from T-Splines Inc., a privately-held surface modeling software company, based in Utah. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “The technology acquisition will strengthen our Digital Prototyping portfolio with more flexible free-form modeling and will help achieve even closer integration between industrial design and engineering workflows” “The technology acquisition
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
During the past decades the main problem in geographical analysis was the lack of spatial data availability. Nowadays the wide diffusion of electronic devices containing geo-referenced information generates a great production of spatial data. Volunteered geographic information activities (e.g. Wikimapia, OpenStreetMap), public initiatives (e.g. Spatial Data Infrastructures, Geo-portals) and private projects (e.g. Google Earth, Microsoft
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Virtual globes have increased in popularity since the first online offerings appeared in 2004–05. Since its release in mid‒2005, Google Earth has been downloaded over one billion times (Official Google Blog 2011), and there are now numerous virtual globe software applications available that cater to different audiences and industries.
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. Join us every Friday at 10:00 CET for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images from Earth-observing satellites. Read More