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Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Rand McNally Highlights New Software and Hardware Enhancements to TruckPC

Two weeks after announcing its investment in DriverTech, Rand McNally unveiled future enhancements for the TruckPC mobile fleet management solution at the American Trucking Associations Management Conference and Exhibition in Phoenix. Rand McNally Truck PC, powered by DriverTech, utilizes Rand McNally’s leading IntelliRoute® TND™ truck navigation on DriverTech’s secure, industry-tested, on-board computing platform.  The recently announced deal between the

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

New Soil-Water Reflectometers Offer Additional Measurements

The CS650, CS655, and CWS655, our newest soil-water reflectometers, feature many improvements over their predecessors. These improvements include the ability to measure bulk electrical conductivity (EC) and soil temperature in addition to soil-water content. Innovative techniques allow the new sensors to make accurate water-content measurements for a wider EC range (up to 3.7 dS/m) without

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

The ESPON project DEMIFER Policy Lunch Seminar

What are the current trends and possible future policy options in migration, fertility, and mortality in European regions? How will an ageing population affect European regions in the next decades? What types of policies can be aimed at accommodating and changing demographic and migratory trends?  These are some of the questions that will be open for

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

VISMASTER Drives Visual Analytics and Technology in Europe

Technological advances are driving European research and people are increasingly becoming dependent on technology to make their lives more efficient. Visual analytics marries analytical reasoning with visual interactive interfaces to resolve complex problems. The EU-funded VISMASTER (‘Visual analytics – Mastering the information age’) project, which received more than 530 000 in funding under the ‘Information

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Parks Canada And Canadian Pacific Take Action To Further Protect Grizzly Bears In Banff National Park

The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment, Minister responsible for Parks Canada and Minister responsible for Southern Alberta, along with Mr. Fred Green, Canadian Pacific President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), today announced a multi-faceted, research-based, five-year joint action plan to further mitigate rail-related grizzly bear mortality in Banff National Park. Railway-related wildlife mortality is

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

4th Amendment Implications of Remote Sensing in Criminal Law

The government’s use of technology must be weighed in the Fourth Amendment balance not because the Constitution constrains the government to employ antiquated surveillance techniques but because the march of science over the course of this century has time and again laid bare secrets that society had (erroneously) assumed to lie safely beyond the perception

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Learn New Geocoding Workflows in ArcGIS 10 at Esri Webinar

The redesigned geocoding engine in ArcGIS 10 lets you accurately map location information contained in tabular data, find single locations faster and easier than ever, and get higher match rates on addresses. To learn more about the benefits of the redesigned geocoding engine, tune in to Geocoding in ArcGIS Desktop 10 on Thursday, October 21, 2010.

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

2010 Valuation Survey of Architecture, Engineering, Planning & Environment al Consulting Firms, Second Edition

The information in this report is based on over 225 actual valuations of A/E/P and environmental consulting firms! Each year, ZweigWhite conducts a nationwide survey to identify design and environmental firms that use an internal formula for valuation, that have been merged or acquired, or that have been appraised by an independent valuation consultant. These

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Main Results of the EU Environment Council

The Council adopted conclusions on the EU position for the Cancún climate conference and in preparation for the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Read More

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

New IBM Global R&D Lab to Open In Australia

IBM and the Australian and Victorian Governments today announced an agreement to establish a new research and development laboratory in Australia.vThe new IBM Global R&D Lab will be IBM’s first lab that combines research and development in a single organization focused on accelerating progress towards a smarter planet.  The new global research and development lab