Monday, May 23rd, 2011
RealD Inc. a leading global licensor of 3D technologies, and Samsung Electronics LCD Business announced today that they have completed a license agreement to make available to consumer electronics manufacturers panels featuring a new jointly developed 3D display technology, which delivers full resolution 3D images to each eye utilizing RealD 3D cinema glasses. Introduced in January 2011
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
Combining remote sensing measurement tools with 60-meter meteorological tower data is an accurate, cost-effective alternative to collecting wind information vs. with 80-meter met towers alone, according to a cost analysis from Second Wind. The analysis determined that one wind study using Second Wind’s Triton remote sensing system and one 60-meter meteorological tower costs 35 percent less than the
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
WhereScape, the developer of WhereScape RED, an agile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for managing data warehouses, today introduced WhereScape 3D, a data driven design tool for planning and reality-testing data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) projects. Using WhereScape 3D, organizations are able to de-risk projects by planning accurate, user-tested projects up front, in hours or days
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
Revenue was $528 million, an increase of 11 percent compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2011. GAAP operating margin was 15 percent, compared to 11 percent in the first quarter of fiscal 2011. Non-GAAP operating margin was 23 percent, compared to 20 percent in the first quarter of fiscal 2011. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
Canada is falling badly behind other western countries in protecting its oceans, says a group of top Canadian marine scientists who are calling on the federal government to take action. The 14 scientists, who released a report Monday at the International Marine Conservation Congress in Victoria, want new guidelines so at least 30 per cent of
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
GAF AG announces that it has successfully completed the provision of services in Western Madagascar for the UN-IFAD and ESA. For an area of about 14,000 km² in Madagascar, GAF has provided dedicated state of the art EO products which have been customised to meet the specific user requirements of the UN-IFAD in the best
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
London’s historic and world famous red buses are going green, as the city, like many others around the world strives to cut air pollution and save fuel by introducing hybrid propulsion systems in the cities bus fleet. London’s bus network is one of the biggest traditional transport systems in the world, which comprises roughly 8,500 individual
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Karmasphere, a Big Data Analytics company, announced it is joining with IBM, to help enterprise clients integrate and analyze traditional business data with a growing volume of unstructured data using Apache Hadoop-based software. Karmasphere has integrated its Big Data Analytics software including Karmasphere Studio for developers and Karmasphere Analyst for data and business analysts with
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Alberta’s environment minister defended the Canadian province’s environmental record, but said air- and water-quality monitoring related to oil-sands production hasn’t been coordinated and needs to be improved. Rob Renner, in an interview, said the province’s environmental record, including its air and water monitoring, has been unfairly portrayed by critics as inadequate. He said the province has
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Intermap announced the receipt of an order totaling USD $600,000 from an existing customer to provide Digital Terrain Models (DTM) along French rivers. Intermap’s digital terrain information will be used to derive and generate flood maps in conjunction with the European Flood Directive. “Intermap is pleased to provide its 3D digital terrain data to assist on this
