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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Toshiba Launches Glasses-free 3D Laptop

Decked out with a quad-core Core i7 chip and discrete graphics, the Toshiba Qosmio F750 is not only a powerful gaming portable, but also relatively affordable at its starting price of S$2,599 (for the 2D version). However, the Japanese maker wasn’t satisfied and has upped the ante by giving this machine a glasses-free 3D display.  Instead of passive polarizing

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

GeoEye and Russian Partner ScanEx Sign Imagery Agreement

GeoEye, Inc. announced that it has signed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar agreement with its Russian partner, ScanEx Research and Development Center, to provide more than 50 million square kilometers of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery for international customers in Russia and its neighboring countries. 

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Sparx Systems and Geoplex Announce Partnership Focused on Modeling Tool

Sparx Systems today announced a partnership with Geoplex. The partnership follows the ongoing success of Sparx Systems’ flagship modeling platform, Enterprise Architect, within the geospatial sector. Widely used within the geospatial community to manage information architectures, Enterprise Architect has been adopted within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to maintain all ISO19100 family models for

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

SuperGeo Officially Release SuperGIS Server 3 Value Edition Worldwide

SuperGeo Technologies is pleased to officially release SuperGIS Server 3 Value Edition, its latest server-based software, to global market. Designed for creating, managing and distributing diverse GIS resources over the Internet to support desktop, mobile and web applications, SuperGIS Server 3 Value Edition assists enterprises in developing, managing, integrating, and publishing multiple GIS services in

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Extensive Slick is Detected in the Black Sea

While performing satellite imagery of the Black Sea water areas on June 24 the specialists of ScanEx Center detected an extensive slick on the sea surface of ship origin. As of the moment of detecting the slick, in an intricate elongated form, outstretched 119 km within the Russian sector of the Black Sea 155 km

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

NAVTEQ Extends Its Enterprise Offering in Europe

NAVTEQ is now offering Postal Code Boundaries in Europe. The polygons in this new product are geo-referenced to the industry leading NAVTEQ map, which allows highly effective territorial comparison and analysis in a broad range of enterprise and GIS applications.  Read More

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Bluesky Launches SolAR Service

Bluesky has launched a new on demand service to complement its existing solar mapping product. The service provides detailed solar panel suitability assessment reports for individual properties and developments. Suitable for commercial, industrial, public sector and even large domestic properties the Bluesky SolAR (Solar Assessment Report) service provides an interactive 3D model of the property

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Iron Ore Mine Safety Assured with 3D Laser Mapping

A state of the art laser scanning system supplied by 3D Laser Mapping has been used to improve safety of iron ore extraction in South Africa. The Riegl laser scanner forms an integral part of a Waste Spreader Positioning System (WSPS) developed by Stone Three Venture Technology in partnership with Reutech Mining. The WSPS is

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Bluesky Release Stunning Photomap of Glastonbury Festival

Bluesky and Blom UK have worked together to release a stunning ultra high-resolution aerial photomap of the 2011 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts. Captured on the afternoon of Sunday, 26th June by Blom UK the 6cm resolution imagery shows the entire site as 150,000 festival goers basked in the summer sun on one of

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Blom Increases UAV Operations in UK

Since 2009 Blom Germany have been working with SmartPlanes to develop a cost effective light weight UAV solution for the European market.  With more than 100 trials and now some 10 commercial projects completed since early 2010, the Personal Aerial Mapping System (PAMS) technology is being rolled out to other countries in the Blom Group.