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Monday, January 28th, 2008

SunEdison Expands its Global Construction and Utility Expertise

PR – SunEdison, North America’s largest solar energy services provider, today announced that it has appointed two new senior executives to support its global solar energy services operations. Jubran Whalan, 36, has joined SunEdison as Senior Vice President of Business Development. Based in Beltsville, Whalan will oversee business development with utilities and sales of renewable

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Blog: Frank Taylor’s Top 10 Google Earth Features for 2007

A ton of new features were added to Google Earth in 2007. The official release of Google Earth version 4 was made on January 10th. But, since that product was available in beta during the last half of 2006, I’m not even going to count those new features for 2007. Read More 

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

AIG MF launches Infrastructure and Economic Reform Fund

PR – AIG Mutual Fund has launched AIG Infrastructure and Economic Reform Fund, an open – ended equity scheme. The scheme opens for subscription on Jan. 10, 2008 and closes on Jan. 31, 2008. The units of the scheme will be available at Rs 10 per unit during the New Fund Offer period. The scheme

Monday, December 24th, 2007

China’s first high speed train ready for shipment

PR – The first vehicles of the Velaro CN eight-car train, China’s first high speed train, have meanwhile been loaded on board a ship in Bremerhaven. In all, sixty such trains were ordered by Chinese Railways in 2006 from Siemens and its Chinese partner Tangshan Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works. Three of those sixty units

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

UK Report: The 50 things that will save the planet

What are the ideas, products, policies, agreements and techno fixes that could avert environmental disaster for our planet? We asked a group of 25 leading environmentalists to reveal their thoughts on the best of the best. Find out what tops the poll in this exclusive, and sometimes surprising, run-down of planet-saving measures. Read Full Report

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

International Space Exploration Conference 2007 (ISEC 2007)

PR – The International Space Exploration Conference 2007 (ISEC 2007) taking place in Berlin (D) from 8 to 9 November will welcome 500 high-level representatives of stakeholder groups from political institutions, the scientific community, industry and applied research organisations, public organisations and the general public.   ISEC 2007 will be the platform to present the

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

GeoStore Enables Site Surveys from the Desktop

PR – Infoterra Ltd, has launched its GeoStore® service to enable property developers to carry out initial and rapid site surveys from their desks. www.GeoStore.com goes beyond traditional aerial imagery and maps to offer a third dimension. As well as taking a birds eye view, developers can use GeoStore to add a terrain model to

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

SAP to Acquire Business Objects

SAP AG  and Business Objects S.A. announced that the companies have reached an agreement that will bring together two of the information technology industry’s leaders, resulting in an unmatched offering for Business Users, enabling timely and accurate decision-making. Under the terms and conditions of the tender offer agreement, SAP will make a cash offer of

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems

In 1999 a United Nations declaration called for action to improve the efficiency and security of transport, search and rescue and geodesy by promoting universal access to and compatibility of space-based navigation and positioning systems. An Action Team on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) was established in 2001 and lead to the establishment of an

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Software Can Analyze 2D Images and Pictures and Count Objects

PR – The “GSA Image Analyser” is a program to analyse 2D-Images and pictures of any kind. It can recognize and count objects (like algorithms from Buerker, Fuchs-Rosenthal, Thoma, Schilling, Tuerk, Tennant) in an image but also calculate the distance and areas in it. The images can be imported from many sources (file, scanner, microscope…).