Saturday, December 31st, 2011
International oil services group, Norway’s Aker Solutions is about to open North America’s most advanced drilling equipment simulator in Houston, Texas. The simulator will be available to rig operators with the objective of making offshore drilling operations safer and more cost effective. Aker Solutions is investing USD 2.5 million in the new state-of-the-art drilling equipment simulator, which will
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Which are the high-growth segments/cash cows and how is the market segmented in terms of applications and materials? What are market estimates and forecasts? Which markets are doing well and which are not? Where are the gaps and opportunities? What is driving the market? Which are the key playing fields? How is the competitive outlook
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
A model has helped shed light on how human-started fires shaped Africa’s landscape, researchers report. Before human activity became widespread, most fires were caused by lightning strikes during the continent’s wet seasons, they said. As the human population expanded, more fires occurred during the dry season, triggering a shift in the impact of fires on Africa’s ecology,
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
myEnergyPlatform.com is an ambitious project by industry-leading visionaries in New York City’s Commercial Real Estate community to leverage smart grid technology. Launched by Davide Gristina, with funding from serial technology entrepreneur and seed investor Chiranjeev Bordoloi, the platform provides commercial real estate owners and managers a set of high-tech tools to maximize energy management efficiency
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the national association of private sector geospatial firms, today announced that Jim Kirkland, vice president and general counsel of Trimble and a leader in the effort to defend GPS users from interference by the LightSquared system proposal, will be the keynote speaker at the organization’s annual Winter Conference, to be held January 22-26,
Sunday, December 25th, 2011
Mapping of utilities, a tool to identify gaps in civic amenities, may soon cover more areas in major cities, including Chennai, with the National Informatics Centre planning to suggest measures for suitable modifications to the Ministry of Defence guidelines on digital map data handling. This follows an appeal to this effect to the NIC from officials
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
The idea of creating your own plastic objects using a 3D printer is very cool. Imagine, for example, being able to print Christmas gifts at home. Looking for a special toy? No need to visit the toy store when you can download that race car design file from a library of toys on the Internet
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Autodesk, Inc.has acquired certain technology-related assets from T-Splines Inc., a privately-held surface modeling software company, based in Utah. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “The technology acquisition will strengthen our Digital Prototyping portfolio with more flexible free-form modeling and will help achieve even closer integration between industrial design and engineering workflows” “The technology acquisition
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
During the past decades the main problem in geographical analysis was the lack of spatial data availability. Nowadays the wide diffusion of electronic devices containing geo-referenced information generates a great production of spatial data. Volunteered geographic information activities (e.g. Wikimapia, OpenStreetMap), public initiatives (e.g. Spatial Data Infrastructures, Geo-portals) and private projects (e.g. Google Earth, Microsoft
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Virtual globes have increased in popularity since the first online offerings appeared in 2004–05. Since its release in mid‒2005, Google Earth has been downloaded over one billion times (Official Google Blog 2011), and there are now numerous virtual globe software applications available that cater to different audiences and industries.
