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Friday, October 12th, 2007

Telcordia Integrated Inventory Wins IEC InfoVision Award

Telcordia announced today that Telcordia Integrated Inventory, the powerful combination of its market leading Telcordia® Granite Inventory and Telcordia® Network Engineer solutions, has been named the 2008 InfoVision Awards winner in the Network and Services Management and Operations category. The award, presented by the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) at Broadband World Forum, recognizes technologies, applications,

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Leica Geosystems supplies Reference Stations to Dept. of Sustainability & Environment in Victoria

  CR Kennedy, Leica Geosystems partner in Australia, has won a tender to supply new Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) to Spatial Information Infrastructure of the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) in Victoria. The tender requested Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) equipment to support GPSnet modernization and densification.

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Wallingford Software launches InfoNet Exchange

Wallingford Software announces today the launch of InfoNet Exchange, a new module for InfoNet, the asset management software solution for the water and wastewater industries. The announcement coincides with the release of InfoNet v8.5, which features a number of additional and important product improvements.   InfoNet Exchange is a new optional module for InfoNet users that

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Innovation First, Inc. and Autodesk Launch Web Site to Promote Robotics Among Students and Educators

In an effort to promote greater interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in schools across the globe, Innovation First, Inc., a leader in educational and competitive robotics products, has teamed up with Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), the world leader in 2D and 3D design software for the manufacturing, building and construction, and media

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

JP Morgan-led group pays 2.7B for Southern Water

A group of infrastructure funds led by JPMorgan Chase & Co agreed to buy UK water company Southern Water from Royal Bank of Scotland for about 1.3 billion pounds ($2.7 billion). Read More

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging Increases ESRI Finland’s Offerings

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging today announced that ESRI Finland is adding ER Mapper Professional, Image Web Server (IWS), Image Integration Framework, Image Compressor and Image Viewer to its portfolio of product offerings. Following Leica Geosystems’ recent acquisition of ER Mapper, ESRI Finland will also offer these new products.  “ESRI Finland has a long history as

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Eurovia wins contract for development work at Berlin-Brandenburg International airport

Eurovia, consortium leader, has been announced as winner of the contract to build a runway and hangars for the new Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport. The contract, worth €215 million, calls for building and developing one of the two take-off and landing runways, the taxiways and airplane parking area. The works, which will take from September 2007

Monday, October 8th, 2007

CH2M HILL Releases 2007 Sustainability Report

CH2M HILL, a global full-service engineering, construction and operations firm, has released its 2007 Sustainability Report. The report describes the company’s activities in the areas of environment, people and community, and economic development. Notable accomplishments include the firm’s response to Hurricane Katrina, the largest cleanup and conversion of a nuclear site to developable land in

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Hexagon to Acquire Leading GNSS Provider NovAtel Inc.

Hexagon AB and NovAtel Inc have entered into a definitive agreement under which Hexagon has agreed to acquire all the outstanding shares of NovAtel for USD 50 per share. NovAtel is a leading provider of precision Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) components and subsystems. NovAtel develops quality OEM products including receivers, enclosures, antennas and firmware that are

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

New Executive Director of EuroGeographics

Dave Lovell has been appointed as the new Executive Director of EuroGeographics. Dave is currently the Programme Manager at EuroGeographics, a post he has held for the last year, and will take up his new appointment immediately after the General Assembly in Dubrovnik. We congratulate Dave on his appointment and wish him every success for