Monday, June 7th, 2010
Interested in cloud computing and what it means for your company? Attend Microsoft’s Keynote session, titled Applications for Cloud Computing at COM.Geo 2010, which takes place on June 21-23 in Washington, DC. This session will establish a baseline for discussions around what cloud computing is, what it isn’t and how it should be applied to
Monday, June 7th, 2010
INTERGEO is sending out an upbeat message to cities and local authorities that are feeling the pinch financially. The world’s largest conference trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management is presenting a whole raft of new opportunities and solutions for optimising and improving administrative processes. “Targeted use of GIS in modern administration means that
Monday, June 7th, 2010
The world’s second coldest capital after Ulaanbaatar, Astana is situated deep in Kazakhstan’s northern steppes, where temperatures drop to -40F in the winter, and howling, icy winds blow through from Siberia. Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev however plans to combat the temperatures with the project, named Indoor City, which will be about 2km in circumference, twice
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Optech Incorporated announced today that it has acquired the operations and assets of DiMAC sprl, inventor of the patented DiMAC true Forward Motion Compensation technology. DiMAC has been providing large and medium-format airborne camera systems based on its patented true Forward Motion Compensation technology for more than five years. DiMAC products include the DiMAC ULTRALiGHT+
Monday, June 7th, 2010
An American expert on land-use planning says Calgary should focus on rejuvenating its inner-city neighbourhoods. Robert Liberty, a metro councillor in Portland, Ore., spoke at a conference on sustainable development at the University of Calgary over the weekend. Liberty has been a leader in inner-city redevelopment, as well as transportation and land-use planning, in Portland.
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Created by Euroscience, ESOF – Euroscience Open Forum – is the biennial pan-European meeting dedicated to scientific research and innovation. At ESOF meetings leading scientists, researchers, young researchers, business people, entrepreneurs and innovators, policy makers, science and technology communicators and the general public from all over the world discuss new discoveries and debate the direction
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Google faces a privacy investigation here in Canada. Canada is just one of several countries who have opened investigations into Google, Inc. questioning their ability to be able to gain private information from people who used their wireless networks. The investigation circles around Google’s Street View Service which is also part of the Google Earth
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Intergraph, the global leader in public safety and security software, has been selected as member of the European Emergency Number Association (EENA), a non-profit organization working on the promotion of the knowledge and efficient use of 112. Two Intergraph® public safety and security executives have also been named to the European Emergency Number Association (EENA)
Monday, June 7th, 2010
his software development kit (SDK) provides programming reference and how-to topics for getting started with the Bing Spatial Data Services. Read More
Monday, June 7th, 2010
The health of marine ecosystems is declining, and use conflicts in the marine environment are increasing, in part because of new needs for ocean space for emerging industries such as wind and wave energy and aquaculture. Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is a process for analyzing and allocating the spatial and temporal distribution of human activities
