Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Pelydryn welcomes Ian Davies this month as he joins Pelydryn to take up the role of Commercial Manager. Ian comes to Pelydryn from NetSurvey. A well-recognized face in the hydrographic industry he brings considerable commercial acumen along with a broad knowledge base as an experienced project manager and IHO Cat A surveyor. A busy first month
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Two influential documents – the Rio+20 negotiating text and the recommendations of the U.N. secretary general’s High Level Panel on Global Sustainability – both propose tighter sustainability reporting requirements for businesses, according to Chatham House fellow Paul Hohnen, writing in the Guardian. Read More
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Sensus outlined the benefits a smart water network can deliver to water utilities for their operations and customers. With a wide range of challenges on the industry through population growth, droughts and operational issues including increases in electricity prices, Sensus identifies a smart water network as the answer to increasing pressure on water companies to
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Reading this story by candlelight? Then odds are you live north of Eglinton Ave. Toronto Hydro has mapped out the areas of the city most prone to blackouts. They are concentrated in North York, northern Scarborough, and the former City of York, where some neighbourhoods suffer a dozen blackouts a year or more, on average. Read More
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
SuperGeo Technologies announced that the Department of Geography and Urban Planning of United Arab Emirates University selected SuperGIS Desktop Lab Kit and GIS Learning CD for supporting its GIS establishments. Evolving GeoSystems, SuperGeo’s distributor in UAE, further offers the product training courses to the professionals and students for improving the knowledge and skills while implementing
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
SuperGeo Technologies announces that the latest desktop GIS product—SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 Beta is released. SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 is the latest desktop GIS software of SuperGIS 3 series products. Based on the brand new SuperGIS Engine 3, SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 provides more various GIS tools and assists GIS professionals in efficiently displaying, editing, managing and analyzing spatial
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
With the recent passing of longtime leader Kim Jong-il, the international community’s eyes are once again focused on North Korea. The succession of Kim Jong-un and military provocations over the past year with South Korea bring an uncertain status to the region’s stability. Now is the time for zealous study of this nuclear armed country. East View
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Super Group today announced its implementation of Greenstone Carbon Management’s Acco2unt solution to measure, manage and reduce its environmental impact. This signals another significant step in Super Group’s drive to improve its environmental performance across its broad-based supply chain management business. Read More
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Between 1990 and 2008, close to 2 billion people worldwide gained access to electricity. But the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that more than 1.3 billion people still lack access to electricity, while the United Nations estimates that another 1 billion have unreliable access. The UN General Assembly has designated 2012 as the “International Year
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
A “time machine” is a plot device frequently used in science fiction. From H.G. Wells’ groundbreaking 1895 novel The Time Machine to Marty McFly’s use of a temporally-enabled DeLorean in Back to the Future, time travel has certainly captured our collective imagination. But the science behind time travel is dubious at best. And even though we can’t actually
