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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Britain from the Air Now Available Online Thanks to OS OpenSpace

100 stunning aerial images which form part of an extraordinary outdoor exhibition can now be viewed on a new interactive map created using Ordnance Survey data. In September 2010 Michael Palin, President of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) officially opened the Britain from the Air street gallery in the historic centre of Bath. The outdoor

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Smarter Grid Solutions to Supply London Low-carbon Project

A small Glasgow technology firm has been recruited to play an important part in the drive to help clean up the sprawling metropolis of London. Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS) has won a £2.9 million contract to supply the software that it developed to help link wind farms and electric cars with the national grid for use

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Econolite Canada to Distribute TrafficCast BlueTOAD

TrafficCast International, Inc. today announced that Econolite Canada, Inc. will distribute its BlueTOAD™ line of products, enabling localized sales services and technical support in the ten provinces and three territories of Canada. Econolite Canada is an innovator of transportation management solutions and represents a wide range of advanced technology products, including traffic signal controllers, traffic management

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Garmin announces the G1000H for Helicopters

Garmin International Inc., announced the G1000H, an all-glass avionics system designed specifically for the VFR Part 27 helicopter market. The G1000H provides important flight data — flight instrumentation, navigation, communication, weather, terrain, traffic, identification, and diagnostics and maintenance computer — and presents it digitally to the pilot on large, high-resolution displays. “The G1000H is a highly flexible

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Europe, the U.S. and Japan Adopt a Common Standard for Data Centres’ Energy Efficiency

The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) measurement standard has been chosen by Government organisations in three continents as the common standard for measuring the energy efficiency of data centres. This will allow data centre operators to measure, calculate, improve and communicate the energy efficiencies of their data centres worldwide. Read More

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Maersk Mega Ships Too Big for US

North American harbours are not effective enough for Maersk to place its new behemoth ships on routes to the continent, according to managing director Eivind Kolding. Kolding’s comments came as the company announced it had ordered ten ships, each with a capacity of 18,000 20-foot containers and a length of 400 metres. Maersk also has the

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

TomTom Signs Multiple Partnership Agreements with Business Listing Providers Across Europe

The following partnerships have been signed: De Telefoongids & Gouden Gids (the Netherlands), Gelbe Seiten (Germany), Opplysningen (Norway), Lokaldelen (Sweden), De Gule Sider (Denmark) and Truvo (Belgium, Portugal and Ireland). Lucien Groenhuijzen, Managing Director of TomTom Places says: “Closing these agreements marks an important milestone in the improvement of our offering. It also offers business listings

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Mapping Project by British Columbia Geological Survey Identifies “Unprecedented Opportunities” in New Zones

Romios Gold Resources Inc. announces that a 2010 mapping project from the British Columbia Geological Survey (“BCGS”) confirmed Romios’ previous claims that the Dirk property mineralization is analogous to and may be as large as the Galore Creek project.

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Urban Mapping Platform Incorporates Mass Transit Data

Critical for site selection, marketing, logistics and other activities, Urban Mapping’s public transport data features highly detailed information about more than 150 public transportation systems in North America. UMI employs a globally-distributed field research network to collect information about bus, rail and ferry systems, including ridership data, station attributes, entrance locations, schedules, unplanned events and

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Space Technologies Exploitation for the Heritage, ST & SD Advancement

Heritage is driving the development and adoption of novel and innovative Science and Technologies that create interactive analysis with far greater informational content, visual robustness, scientific reliability, long-term sustainability, and future reusability than current archiving solutions.