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Thursday, September 9th, 2010

New Free CityCAD Viewer Released

Holistic City Software has released CityCAD 2.0.5, the latest version of the urban design software tool. This is a maintenance release, meaning there aren’t any significant new features, but our development team have made several improvements and fixes. Also, the Online Database is now linked to the new City Design Reference Library, and allows you

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Infotech Hires Greg Oaten as Strategy Advisor for Utilities

Infotech Enterprises Limited (Infotech) announced today that it has hired Greg Oaten as Strategy Advisor for Utilities. Greg will operate from Infotech’s Sydney office inAustralia and will focus on the APAC region. Greg will play a strategic role in developing and refining Infotech’s new service offerings in areas suchas Smart Grid and power engineering for its

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Maps and Tracking – Part One

Old maps have a certain reassuring permanence about them, not so the new ones – welcome to the age of real-time cartography – Australia Radio National presentation. Listen or download.

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Pitney Bowes Business Insight to Demonstrate Industry-Leading Data as a Service Platform at AGI 2010

Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI), a global leader in location intelligence, data management and customer communication management software, data and services, has announced that it will be attending the 2010 AGI Annual Conference – AGI GeoCommunity ’10 – in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK on September 28th to 30th 2010. The company will be speaking at the event and demonstrating

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Laser Measurement Specialist MDL Sells Stake in Renishaw PLC to Accelerate Growth

LASER measurement technology specialist Measurement Devices Ltd (MDL) is to accelerate its drive to become a world-class laser measurement technology manufacturing business after raising finance by selling a 29 per cent shareholding to global metrology and healthcare products manufacturer Renishaw plc. Family-owned business MDL, which has bases in York, Aberdeen and Houston, USA;  will use

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

LANDMARK Helps UK Businesses Navigate the CRC Essentials

With the final deadline for Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) registration looming, data management experts Landmark Information Group are advising businesses on how to get registered and avoid both a costly fine and potential reputational damage. According to the Financial Times, up to 4,000 big energy users classify as core scheme members, yet

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Matrox Case Study: Extio Units Control Workstation Noise and Stability at the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service

Matrox is pleased announce that the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (INBS) has selected Matrox Extio Series Remote Graphics Units to regulate noise and stability issues for 25 dual- and quad-monitor worskstations across 8 studios. Extio F1220 and F1400 KVM extension solutions separate the keyboard, mouse, audio peripherals, and graphics hardware from the host PC via fibre-optic cable, while supporting up to

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Historical Material Geographic Information System

Academia Historica is the highest authority of history in Taiwan and also the most essential organization collecting, organizing, storing, editing, and studying the modern history of Republic of China (ROC). The museum collects a great number of the historical materials related to the modern history of ROC, and the materials can be used as the

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Valencia – 6th gvSIG Conference – Communication Proposals Deadline

We remind you that we are now expecting communication proposals for the 6th gvSIG Conference (Valencia, 1st-3rd December 2010) . The deadline is September 21st. You just have to send an abstract, following the template provided on the Reports section of the Conference web page to [email protected] and the scientific committee will evaluate it to be

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Lack of Resources Hinders Risk Professionals

New research by Ordnance Survey among Directors and Managers of Operational Risk in the financial sector reveals that a lack of resources is, and will continue to be a problem as operational risk continues to increase in importance. Despite operational risk moving up the organisational agenda over the last year according to over 84% of respondents,