Friday, August 11th, 2017
PALO ALTO, Calif. – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX:MDA), a global communications and information company, today announced that its subsidiary, Space Systems Loral (SSL) has signed a contract to provide JUPITER™ 3 a transformational Ultra High Density Satellite (UHDS) to Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) to be designated EchoStar XXIV.
Friday, August 11th, 2017
COSTA MESA, Calif. – Insitu, a leading information services company with more than one million operational unmanned aircraft systems flight hours, today announced its partnership with FireWhat, and Esri, the world leader in spatial analytics. Through this partnership, aerial reconnaissance for fighting wildfires will be provided by Insitu’s INEXA Solutions, comprised of INEXA Control, Insitu
Friday, August 11th, 2017
Growth in sales area productivity (gross retail turnover per m2) is an important gauge of market health for retailers looking to expand to new regions. In 2016, sales area productivity grew by 0.9% in the EU-27 (this excludes the UK due to the exchange rate disparity). Luxembourg, Switzerland, Norway, and Sweden top the rankings, but
Friday, August 11th, 2017
MINNEAPOLIS – Today, Sentera announced the availability of its Double 4K precision agriculture sensor on DJI Phantom 4 Professional, Advanced, and Standard drones. This offering provides Double 4K quality at entry-level pricing, expanding late-season data collection options for agronomists, crop consultants, and growers. Several system configurations are available including collection of normalized difference vegetation index
Thursday, August 10th, 2017
MELBOURNE, Fla. -Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has delivered the third of 10 advanced navigation payloads to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), which will increase accuracy, signal power and jamming resistance for U.S. Air Force GPS III satellites. The advanced navigation payloads feature a Mission Data Unit (MDU) with a unique 70-percent digital design that links atomic clocks,
Thursday, August 10th, 2017
Milford, Massachusetts – Comark is pleased to announce the acquisition of Data Ltd. Inc. (“DLI”) located in Lehigh Acres, Florida and New Taipai City, Taiwan. DLI is the industry leader in designing, manufacturing, and servicing rugged mobile computing solutions. The combination of Comark and DLI brings the consolidated customer base an industry-leading choice of industrial
Wednesday, August 9th, 2017
AUSTIN, Texas – Xplore Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:XPLR) today announced that its XSLATE D10 Android™ rugged tablets are being used as the primary data collection platform for the Net Zero Deforestation Project currently underway in the rainforests of Caquetá, Colombia. The project, a joint-effort between the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and The Nature Conservancy
Wednesday, August 9th, 2017
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announce a Call for Participation in a simulated disaster response exercise that will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina on September 7th, 2017, during the Disaster Risk Reduction (DDR) Across the Americas Summit. Many disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean affect multiple countries which means that sharing of best
Wednesday, August 9th, 2017
Sunnyvale and Tallinn – Intertrust Technologies announced today that it has acquired the assets of Planet OS, a geospatial big data service provider founded in 2012 by Estonian entrepreneurs. Planet OS has built a unique multi-party data platform that has broad application to the Internet of Things (IoT). By acquiring Planet OS, Intertrust will add its patented
Wednesday, August 9th, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO – Chime Technologies, an operating system for the real estate industry, announced two new major innovations today along with its one-year anniversary. The launch of these game-changing features—an AI-enabled smart dialer and a fully autonomous drone—reflect Chime’s journey to become a complete operating system that transforms the business of doing real estate by integrating
