Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Antonio Tajani, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Industry and Entrepreneurship, has launched the Centre for European Union Small and Medium Enterprises (EU SME Centre) in Beijing on 5 November. Funded by the European Commission, this new venture will provide information, advice, training and matchmaking opportunities for European SMEs wishing to export to or
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
IBGE reveals today, November 4, the resident population in each of the 5.565 Brazilian municipalities on August 1st, 2010, according to the results of the 2010 Population Census, carried out from August 1st to October 31, which enumerated 185,712,713 people in the whole Brazil.
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently signed an enterprise license agreement (ELA) with Esri, making ArcGIS software tools available for unlimited use by authorized NASA employees and contractors. The agreement reflects NASA’s extensive and growing use of Esri’s ArcGIS software to bring geospatial intelligence to a wide variety of mission-critical efforts, from streamlining operations
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps and location-based services, is celebrating 25 years at the forefront of industry. Having begun operations in 1985, the company today holds over 400 patents and supplies data to over 1700 customers across the globe. Since the opening of its first Asia-Pacific (APAC) office in Japan in 1996, NAVTEQ has
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Trimble introduced today the new Trimble® Municipal Reporter™ system, a complete hosted solution for managing issues found throughout a municipality, including potholes, broken streetlights, graffiti, pest infestation and illegal dumping. The Municipal Reporter system provides an accurate and consistent data archive of all issues managed in the system, allowing city officials to generate reports and
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Hemisphere GPS, a designer and manufacturer of advanced GPS products, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2010. All amounts in this news release are expressed in US dollars. For the third quarter ended September 30, 2010, Hemisphere GPS reported a 46% increase in revenues to $13.2 million compared to $9.1 million in the third quarter of 2009.
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Web GIS: Principles and Applications, the latest offering from Esri Press, is an important resource for geographic information system (GIS) students and professionals who want to learn state-of-the-art concepts, architectures, and techniques for working with Web-based GIS applications.
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Infotech Enterprises, a geo-spatial and engineering services company, has acquired the US-based Wellsco Inc, a telecom engineering Services Company , with an annual run rate of $12 million. “We have acquired the US firm in an all-cash deal. We expect additional revenues of $10-12 million in the financial year 2010-11 for Infotech. This is a crucial
Monday, November 8th, 2010
The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the Venice International University (VIU) are pleased to announce their annual European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics for postgraduate students. The 2011 Summer School will take place from the 3rd to the 9th of July, at the
Monday, November 8th, 2010
The 2011 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship is launched today and invites applications from RIBA-accredited schools of architecture around the world. A £6,000 grant will be awarded to one student by a panel of judges which includes Lord Foster and the President of the RIBA. First established in 2006, the scholarship is now in its
