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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Orange and Nokia to Extend Ovi Across the United Kingdom and France

Orange and Nokia today announced a new integrated Ovi service that widens the developer ecosystem and gives Orange customers using Nokia handsets easier access to more content. Orange is integrating Ovi content with the best of its apps from the Orange Application Shop to give customers simpler, more secure access to a wider range of

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

FARO Launches New 3D Imaging Product Line, Featuring FARO 3D Imager AMP

FARO Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: FARO), the world’s leading provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, announced today the release of their new 3D imaging product line, featuring the FARO 3D Imager AMP. The FARO 3D Imager AMP is a high performance non-contact 3D imaging system, capable of collecting millions of points in just seconds. Using

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Astrium and ScanEx Sign an Exclusive Partnership for Distribution Rights on the New SPOT 6 & 7 Satellites

Astrium Services has signed a ten-year partnership with the Russian research and development centre ScanEx for the reception and distribution rights on the upcoming SPOT 6 and 7 satellites. This partnership, which also provides ScanEx the exclusive reception and distribution rights on the SPOT 5 satellite, is part of a long term cooperation programme between

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Trimble Expands Popular Juno GPS Handheld Series with Voice Capability

Trimble introduced today the new Trimble® Juno™ SD handheld, an addition to the pocket-sized Juno series of durable, lightweight field computing devices with integrated Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. All Juno series models include integrated GPS, wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) and Bluetooth® connectivity, a 3 Megapixel camera, a 533 MHz processor, 128 MB of onboard memory, a

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

GTE Sustainable Energy Launches New UK Carbon Division

REUTERS – Boston-based carbon and renewable energy company GTE Sustainable Energy Inc. has appointed Grattan MacGiffin as the head of its new London-based environmental commodity trading division, it said on Monday. “GTE Global Trading Limited was created in response to growing demand for access to credits from new carbon and environmental markets,” the company said. Read More

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Avineon launches System to Measure Emergency Readiness

Avineon Inc., a provider of IT, geospatial, engineering and program management services, has unveiled its Readiness Index tool. The Readiness Index provides businesses with the opportunity to measure their emergency preparedness and will be introduced through a series of Webinar demonstrations. The Readiness Index is a secure online system with the functionality to measure and monitor

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Esri StreetMap Premium Advanced Now Available with NAVTEQ Data

The latest release of Esri StreetMap Premium with NAVTEQ map data includes both an expansion of coverage to include Mexico and an advanced version with new data and functionality. The advanced version provides users with a greater level of precision for geocoding for the United States and additional routing capabilities for the United States, Canada,

Monday, September 13th, 2010

LizardTech Announces September Regional Shows

LizardTech, a division of Celartem Inc. and a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, will be exhibiting at this week’s 23rd annual GIS in the Rockies Conference in Loveland, Colo., in booth number 12 and the 2010 NW GIS User Conference in Spokane, Wash., in booth number 4. Learn More

Monday, September 13th, 2010

1Spatial Signs Distribution Agreement with Critchlow of New Zealand

1Spatial, provider of intelligent data quality and integration solutions, have today announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Critchlow, providers of spatial data quality and processing services.  Under this agreement Critchlow will provide 1Spatial software and solutions to clients in the New Zealand market. Learn More

Monday, September 13th, 2010

NAVTEQ Celebrates 25 Years

NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, is celebrating 25 years at the forefront of the development of digital maps and location content.  The company began operations in 1985, and today holds over 400 patents and supplies data to over 1700