Saturday, July 30th, 2011
Sococo, the social communications company, announced the beta launch of Sococo Phone, a new phone-calling feature that for the first time unites a virtual work environment with traditional phone communications. Sococo Phone gives users the ability to call any phone number in the world from within their own Team Space virtual work environment, and joins
Saturday, July 30th, 2011
Synopsys, Inc. announced the availability of enhancements to its LightTools illumination design and analysis software, acquired as part of Synopsys’ acquisition of Optical Research Associates (ORA). LightTools 7.2 delivers features that will help users graphically analyze simulation results, compute important metrics when designing for the lighting industry, iteratively design with CAD software and improve the
Saturday, July 30th, 2011
The activity domain under the mission Geoinformatics are broadly categorized in the scheme –i) Information Infrastructure, ii) National Geospatial Datasets, iii) Product Management, iv) 3D-Integrated Application, v) Mobile Mapping, and vi) e-Governance. The information infrastructure, in turn, includes the GSI Portal which archives the scientific attribute and spatial information and GSI Net. The National geospatial datasets play vital role towards
Saturday, July 30th, 2011
East View Cartographic (EVC) has entered into an exclusive distributorship license with UT-Battelle for an award winning population distribution database. The LandScan High Resolution Global Population Data Set, developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has already seen success in a number of research, educational, humanitarian and corporate applications. LandScan, which refines
Friday, July 29th, 2011
The orbit of ESA’s retired ERS-2 observation satellite is being lowered to reduce the risk of collision with other satellites or space debris. The goal is to leave it well below most operating polar satellites by the end of August. The first in a series of thruster firings, each lasting about 300 seconds, was commanded by
Friday, July 29th, 2011
Infragistics, the experience design software company and world leader in user interface (UI) development tools, today debuts NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch, a powerful and flexible set of Silverlight-based NetAdvantage UI Tools, shells and themes enabling business users and developers to quickly build and share business applications on the desktop, browser and the cloud.
Friday, July 29th, 2011
Customers can easily visualise geographic data and gain better business insights. Germany-based enterprise application software provider SAP is developing its collaboration with Google to allow customers more easily visualise geographic data and make better business decisions. The integration will enable enterprise customers to use Google’s cloud mapping tools with SAP software to manage large data volumes in
Friday, July 29th, 2011
Norwegian telecom provider Telenor Group reports revenues of NOK 24,4 billion for the second quarter of 2011, representing an organic revenue growth of 7%, which was better than expected. “Half-way into 2011, we have captured growth opportunities and delivered another quarter with 7 percent organic revenue growth combined with steady customer growth and healthy margins. The
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
The Singapore Satellite Positioning Reference Network, SiReNT is a nation-wide reference network developed to support real-time high precision land surveying and other positioning applications. An initiative by Singapore Land Authority (SLA), SiReNT provides Differential GPS (DGPS) services which supports the latest technology of Network-RTK. Read More
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
China says it successfully launched another satellite for its indigenous global navigation and positioning network system Wednesday. The satellite was placed into a geostationary orbit by a Long March-3A rocket after a Wednesday launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Sichuan Province, China’s state-run news agency Xinhua reported. Read more
