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Sunday, September 11th, 2011

Avid Unveils Dynamic New Graphics Platform — Avid Motion Graphics

Avid unveiled Avid Motion Graphics —the company’s next-generation graphics platform. With a revolutionary new real-time 2D/3D graphics rendering engine, Avid Motion Graphics lets media enterprises—including broadcasters, sports teams, and post production companies—create thrilling graphics and arresting imagery while journalists and others integrate those graphics into their stories. Incorporating a bridge to the Deko product family,

Sunday, September 11th, 2011

TomTom and Hertz Partner to Ensure Drivers are Neverlost

TomTom has partnered with Global car rental provider Hertz, to offer vehicle rental customers across Europe the latest edition of the Hertz NeverLost satnav system. NeverLost 4 is based on the TomTom Via 120 EU with its unique dynamic routing; providing customers the fastest route to their destination based on the latest traffic situation. The navigation devices can be booked in advance

Sunday, September 11th, 2011

SensorLogic’s M2M Platform Targets Wireless Asset Management

SensorLogic, Inc. announced Version 3.4 of its SensorLogic Service Delivery Platform. This release adds many new features that enhance support for the development of wireless applications such as insurance telematics, smart package tracking, security, and asset monitoring and management. New features include : integration with GSM wireless provisioning systems, trip, route, geofence and shipment services, hybrid

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

OpenGeo a Gold Sponsor at 2011 FOSS4G Conference

OpenGeo, the organization behind the OpenGeo Suite is supporting the 2011 FOSS4G conference in a major way. This year’s conference features twenty workshops, talks, and tutorials hosted by OpenGeo team members. One highlight will surely be the keynote address by Paul Ramsey, Senior Consultant at OpenGeo and PostGIS co-founder. Additionally, the first meeting of the

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Envitia is the First Vendor to Support New RTIG Data Standards

Envitia is pleased to announce that its CUTLAS-RTI bus real time information system now supports the RTIG-Inform Digital Air Interface Protocol (DAIP). CUTLAS-RTI is first to market with open standards-based data exchange support. CUTLAS–RTI has a number of open interfaces to enable Bus Operatorsto access strategy-driven functions that can selectively alert on bus operations. This can be used to detect

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

First Galileo Satellite Touches Down in French Guiana

The first Galileo navigation satellite has arrived in Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, ready to begin preparations for launch on 20 October. Packed within its protective, air-conditioned container, the satellite landed at Cayenne Rochambeau Airport aboard an Antonov aircraft at 06:45 local time on Wednesday 7 September, having departed from Thales Alenia Space Italy’s Rome facility,

Friday, September 9th, 2011

SAP to Acquire 3D Visualization Software Maker Right Hemisphere

 As part of its mission to help customers innovate the way they do business, SAP AG will acquire Right Hemisphere, a leading provider of visual enterprise solutions based in San Ramon, California, and Auckland, New Zealand. The 3-D model-based visualization and communications technologies from Right Hemisphere will enhance SAP software and enable visual navigation and interrogation of an entire product

Friday, September 9th, 2011

MapInfo Manager Updated, version 1.2

MapInfo Manager is part of the MapInfo suite for Enterprise Location Intelligence.  It is ideal for establishing a Single Point of Truth of spatial assets for spatial data custodians and GIS managers, through fast, efficient, intuitive metadata management. This is the third release of the product by Pitney Bowes Business Insight in a year, as

Friday, September 9th, 2011

NAVTEQ LocationPoint Ad Network Adds Millions

NAVTEQ has signed Appello as a publisher of the expanding NAVTEQ LocationPoint hyperlocal mobile ad network. The deal extends the reach of one of the fastest growing location-aware mobile ad networks in the world to millions of users of Appello’s Wisepilot mobile navigation service.

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

NOAA Sends Balloons Aloft to Collect Data for Renewable Wind Energy Project

NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) plans to launch weather balloons carrying small instruments that collect and transmit wind speed, wind direction, temperature, and relative humidity data Sept. 12-20 from the Duke Energy Ocotillo Wind Farm located near Forsan, Texas.