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Monday, September 27th, 2010

Brandenburg – Service Portal for Metadata Online

A few days ago the ‚Service Portal for Metadata‘ of the Spatial Data Infrastructure Berlin/Brandenburg (GDI-BE/BB) has been launched successfully: the Landesvermessung und Geobasisinformation Brandenburg (LGB) and the geoinformation service provider DELPHI IMM GmbH from Potsdam announce the official end of the testing phase. The Service Portal for Metadata represents a reliable and freely available

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Chaos Systems Changes Name to Adtollo

To exemplify our offer to the market will Chaos systems change the name to Adtollo. We make the name change to put focus at our two business areas: consulting services and systems. The name change does only concern the company name, our software system names Topocad and Chaos desktop remain the same. Stefan Andersson, general manager, says:

Monday, September 27th, 2010

ESRI Training Till Year-end Plus Capability Scale-up on Moving with ArcGIS 10

We are also pleased to extend specially to our current customers (those on added 12 – 24 months maintenance after software purchase) – to enjoy  a 2 pax (payable) plus 1 (complimentary) for “What’s New in ArcGIS Desktop 10” & “What’s New in Editing at ArcGIS Desktop 10”. If interested, do drop us your company’s

Monday, September 27th, 2010

ArchiCAD 14 Czech Version Released

The Czech version is the sixteenth of 26 local versions in ArchiCAD 14’s global release schedule, and follows the release of the International, German, Austrian, New Zealand, US, Italian, Australian, French, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Russian versions.  All local versions are planned to reach the market by the end of Q3 2010.

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

Exprodat Consulting Aims for 600 by the end of 2010

Alongside software and consulting services, Exprodat Consulting offers some of the most popular GIS-based training courses to the Oil & Gas industry. To prove their point, the company has just completed a course that included their 500th attendee. Such is the popularity and value of their courses, the company expects to pass the 600 mark

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

Pitney Bowes Business Insight Appoints Gary Roberts as Executive Vice President, EMEA

Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI) today announced the promotion of Gary Roberts to Executive Vice President, EMEA. Having been with PBBI for just under three years, Roberts most recently served as Managing Director, UK & Ireland and Regional Director of Northern Europe, where he was responsible for 60% of PBBI’s EMEA revenues. Previously Director of Retail,

Friday, September 24th, 2010

SSTL Remembers Gordon Hopkinson 1952-2010

Gordon Hopkinson was one of the world’s experts in the physics of optical detectors used in a wide range of applications from digital cameras through to international space missions and even mobile phones. For three decades he was involved in detailed analysis and modelling of solid state cameras and contributed significantly to the research of

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Ontario Ministry of Economic Development’s ESRI Application Receives Top Honours at Showcase Ontario 2010

ESRI Canada congratulates the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development (MEDT) on receiving the Judges’ Choice Award at Showcase Ontario 2010 for its online investment attraction tool, Select Ontario. The application leverages ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology and provides site selectors with easy and quick access to valuable information for finding ideal investment sites in over

Friday, September 24th, 2010

The Top Three Hottest New Majors for a Career in Technology

Microsoft is hiring people with unique backgrounds, some that are new with the inception of the Cloud, web services and the amazing scale at which the industry is operating. The top hottest academic areas for future careers in tech are outlined on the Microsoft JobsBlog, including: Data Mining/Machine Learning/AI/Natural Language Processing; Business Intelligence/Competitive Intelligence; and

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

New Map Offers a Global View of Air Pollution

The problematic particles, called fine particulate matter (PM2.5) can get past the body’s normal defenses and penetrate deep into the lungs. The first long-term global map of PM2.5 was published in a recent issue of Environmental Health Perspectives. Canadian researchers created the map by blending total-column aerosol amount measurements from two NASA satellite instruments with