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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

Foresight Report on Migration and Global Environmental Change

Foresight’s two year study into Migration and Global Environmental Change has examined how changes in environmental conditions such as flooding, drought and rising sea levels will influence and interact with patterns of global human migration over the next 50 years. These patterns of human movement, 75 per cent of which is inside national borders, will

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

NAVTEQ Named Ford Motor Company’s Exclusive Map Provider

NAVTEQ has been selected by Ford Motor Company to be their exclusive map supplier for the Sync MyFord Touch. The agreement positions NAVTEQ as the map data provider for the SYNC with MyFord Touch SD-card based navigation system in Europe, Russia, Middle East, North America and South America. NAVTEQ maps power over 24 million in-vehicle

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

Leica CloudWorx for Revit

Leica Geosystems announces “Leica CloudWorx for Revit”, the latest addition to Leica Geosystems family of CloudWorx point cloud processing plug-ins for CADD and VR modeling software. CloudWorx for Revit provides a faster way for AutoCAD®Revit® professionals to efficiently create accurate BIM deliverables of existing buildings based on rich laser scan data collected by 3D laser

Monday, November 7th, 2011

Project for Disaster and Climate Change Countermeasures Using Earth Observation Satellite

Vietnam is a narrow and long country lying along a north/south axis. The Country has multitudinous climatic and geological conditions. Therefore, Vietnam has a relatively higher risk of the incidence of natural disasters in the world. Particularly, typhoons and floods and other hydrological events are serious problems. Losses from these natural disasters are nearly 1.5%

Monday, November 7th, 2011

Navistar – Install Rand McNally IntelliRoute GPS Devices in Int’l Trucks

Rand McNally and Navistar, Inc. have reached an agreement to make Rand McNally’s award-winning IntelliRoute TND truck GPS units available as an in-dash option in International trucks starting next year.

Monday, November 7th, 2011

Leica mojoXact Features for Leica mojo3D and Leica SteerDirect Available

Leica Geosystems today released the Leica mojoXact, the new high accuracy upgrade option for the Leica mojo3D guidance display, as well as further features for the Leica mojo3D and Leica SteerDirect. The new features include an improved look and feel, better product usability, more accuracy options and an increased coverage of Leica SteerDirect vehicle support.

Sunday, November 6th, 2011

Well Results Shape Dynamic Marcellus and Utica Shale Landscapes, ShaleNavigator Maps It

ShaleNavigator, a web-based news and mapping system, is now available to help landowners and operators stay current with and interpret what the recent developments mean for their property, property group, or company’s position within the quickly evolving Shale Gas landscapes.

Sunday, November 6th, 2011

Powel Introduces Version 8.0 of WorkStudio Mobile Work Platform

Powel, Inc., has released version 8.0 of its WorkStudio® mobile work management software platform that synchronizes office, customer and engineering data from utility construction and maintenance operations for accurate, streamlined work management. 

Sunday, November 6th, 2011

Ethiopia Makes Major Purchase of DAT/EM Systems Software

The Ethiopian Ministry of Urban Development & Construction, Urban Development Capacity Building Office (UDCBO) has recently completed the sale and installation of 29 SUMMIT Evolution workstations from DAT/EM Systems International. DAT/EM Systems International, along with its representative in Ethiopia, Corporate Computer Center (3C PLC), has dedicated effort and time to fulfill its obligation under a

Saturday, November 5th, 2011

Huge Iceberg Forms in Antarctica

A rift has formed in the shelf of floating ice in front of the Pine Island Glacier (PIG). The surface crack in the PIG runs for almost 30km (20 miles), is 60m (200ft) deep and is growing every day. US space agency (Nasa) researchers expect the eventual iceberg to cover about 880 sq km – an area