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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

BARSC in the Sunshine with Quarry One Eleven

The British Association of Remote Sensing Companies (BARSC) is a highly proactive organisation that represents the interests of commercial organisations involved in remote sensing. Formed in 1985, BARSC has an impressive track record of serving the interests of major companies, small and medium enterprises and independent consultants. The Executive Committee of BARSC works tirelessly to

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Nokia Announces Powerful Family of Smartphones and Ovi Services at Nokia World

At Nokia World, the destination for people passionate about mobility, Nokia today announced a family of smartphones powered by the all new Symbian platform which brings significant enhancements in speed and ease of use. The new devices, which are tightly integrated with enhanced Ovi services and apps, reinforce Nokia’s vision of a mobile industry that is

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Orange and Nokia to Extend Ovi Across the United Kingdom and France

Orange and Nokia today announced a new integrated Ovi service that widens the developer ecosystem and gives Orange customers using Nokia handsets easier access to more content. Orange is integrating Ovi content with the best of its apps from the Orange Application Shop to give customers simpler, more secure access to a wider range of

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

FARO Launches New 3D Imaging Product Line, Featuring FARO 3D Imager AMP

FARO Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: FARO), the world’s leading provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, announced today the release of their new 3D imaging product line, featuring the FARO 3D Imager AMP. The FARO 3D Imager AMP is a high performance non-contact 3D imaging system, capable of collecting millions of points in just seconds. Using

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Astrium and ScanEx Sign an Exclusive Partnership for Distribution Rights on the New SPOT 6 & 7 Satellites

Astrium Services has signed a ten-year partnership with the Russian research and development centre ScanEx for the reception and distribution rights on the upcoming SPOT 6 and 7 satellites. This partnership, which also provides ScanEx the exclusive reception and distribution rights on the SPOT 5 satellite, is part of a long term cooperation programme between

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Trimble Expands Popular Juno GPS Handheld Series with Voice Capability

Trimble introduced today the new Trimble® Juno™ SD handheld, an addition to the pocket-sized Juno series of durable, lightweight field computing devices with integrated Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. All Juno series models include integrated GPS, wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) and Bluetooth® connectivity, a 3 Megapixel camera, a 533 MHz processor, 128 MB of onboard memory, a

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

OpenGeo Releases Training Courses under Creative Commons

The Creative Commons license allows anyone to provide training using these materials provided they give OpenGeo authorial credit and release any further changes to the material under the same license terms. “We love these core open source projects, they form the heart of our OpenGeo Suite product, and we want as many people as possible to learn

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Organic Farms Have Better Soil

The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology looked at microscopic fungi in the soil that helps plants grow. The study of nine farms in England, published in the journal Environmental Microbiology, found that organic farms have a much more diverse range of fungi living in the soil than on conventional farms. Read More  

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

GTE Sustainable Energy Launches New UK Carbon Division

REUTERS – Boston-based carbon and renewable energy company GTE Sustainable Energy Inc. has appointed Grattan MacGiffin as the head of its new London-based environmental commodity trading division, it said on Monday. “GTE Global Trading Limited was created in response to growing demand for access to credits from new carbon and environmental markets,” the company said. Read More

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Avineon launches System to Measure Emergency Readiness

Avineon Inc., a provider of IT, geospatial, engineering and program management services, has unveiled its Readiness Index tool. The Readiness Index provides businesses with the opportunity to measure their emergency preparedness and will be introduced through a series of Webinar demonstrations. The Readiness Index is a secure online system with the functionality to measure and monitor