Thursday, October 6th, 2011
A senior U.S. senator came out swinging Wednesday in favour of TransCanada’s Keystone XL oilsands pipeline, telling Americans that rejection of the project would be “the biggest energy policy blunder in our history.” Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, warned that a decision by President Barack Obama to deny a permit for the pipeline would
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies established several GIS related websites for global users to better utilize SuperGIS technologies and resources. The latest one is the SuperGeo GIS Forum for users to discuss comprehensive GIS technologies and all SuperGIS products. In addition to the initial website for local Taiwanese clients, SuperGeoTek global website was established and has being enhanced in
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
3D Systems Corporation announced today that it acquired Kemo Modelmakerij B.V. (Kemo), a leading provider of on-demand custom parts services headquartered in Budel, The Netherlands. The company plans to continue all of its Kemo operations as 3D Systems Benelux and immediately offer its expanded range of 3D content-to-print solutions for the benefit of design-to-manufacturing professionals and
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Meridian Systems, the Plan-Build-Operate technology solutions leader for project-based organizations, announced today the release of Prolog Version 9 software, a new release featuring several product enhancements and performance improvements for the Prolog construction project management application suite. Designed specifically for Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) organizations, the Prolog software solution offers the most complete project management system
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. today announced its intention to acquire Shoden Data Systems (Shoden), a leading provider of data center technology solutions in South Africa and across the sub-Saharan African continent. The acquisition is subject to approval from the South African Competition Commission and other relevant competition
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Pitney Bowes Business Insight, a global leader in customer data, analytics and communication software and services, has announced that DUAL Corporate Risks – a specialist insurance underwriter focused on SME and mid-market businesses and professionals – has selected Pitney Bowes Business Insight’s Risk Data Suite to enable location-specific risks, such as flooding, to be assessed
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
The Swedish research network Focali has published a new report with lessons learned from the Norwegian REDD+ interventions.It is called “Learning from Norway – A review of lessons learned for REDD+ donors” and was written by Lisa Westholm, Madelene Ostwald, Sabine Henders and Eskil Mattsson. It is Focali Report 2011:03 and can be downloaded here:
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Geoimage has great pleasure in announcing the appointment of five new staff members to our ever growing company. As Geoimage is expanding in terms of our products offered, the geographies that we now reach and the market sectors that we are active in, our new staff bring their skills to support and grow our Sales, Image
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Researchers documented an unprecedented level of ozone loss over the Arctic, for the first time warranting the description “Arctic ozone hole”, a term previously only applied to the hole over the Antarctic. In a study released in Nature this week the authors emphasized that never before in the observational record has ozone loss in the
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Astrium Services and Chinese provider of satellite data and value-added services, Beijing Eastdawn Information Technology (Eastdawn), have signed a partnership agreement to give Eastdawn access to Pléiades solutions and technologies. This three year contract (with the possibility to extend for an extra two years) will enable Eastdawn to distribute 50-cm resolution products from the Pléiades
