Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Carl Bass, President and Chief Executive Officer of Autodesk, Inc. will ring the NASDAQ Opening Bell remotely from Autodesk’s office in San Francisco, California on Thursday, June 24 at 9:30 a.m. (ET). NASDAQ lists approximately 516 companies from California with 206 companies from Silicon Valley. The ceremony will be broadcast live on the NASDAQ seven
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Researchers at the University of New Brunswick were among a few scientists worldwide to pick up a new GPS signal last week. The test signal was transmitted by the recently launched IIF-1 satellite, a new breed of GPS satellite that delivers a new, stronger signal, said UNB researcher Prof. Richard Langley. Before now, there were
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
A 3D excavator guidance system is helping the earthmoving subcontractor to beat the schedule by 15 percent on a $9-million channel repair project for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Topeka, Kansas. Jim Ebert, project manager for the contractor, says the Leica Power Digger 3D systems improve the excavators’ efficiency because no grade checking
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
At the Council, the texts of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Programme Resolution and Programme Proposal were approved by all Member States, with Germany and Portugal voting yes ad referendum. This defines the scope and cost of the programme. In addition, 14 Member States confirmed their support for the programme itself, with the remaining Member
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
The prestigious British Cartographic Society (BCS) Award was presented to The Highland Council at the 2010 awards ceremony held last week during the Society’s Annual Symposium at the Village Hotel and Conference Centre in Nottingham.The BCS has recognised innovative use of mapping at the recently held BCS Symposium entitled “Talking with Maps” that attracted over
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Viet Nam will extend payments for ecosystem services throughout the country following the success of a two-year pilot project. Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai announced the decision at an international workshop to discuss Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), held in Da Lat, the Central Highlands, yesterday. Southeast Asian and Chinese governmental officials and private-sector
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Contrary to the clean look in rainwater pouring the country’s land, the weather agency finds most of the rainwater contains harmful pollutions that are feared to harm environment and affect human health.The weather agency categorized the polluted rainwater as acid rains with acidity scale having gone down the tolerable level of 5.6.A report by the
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
The portal — which was recently updated to even better meet client needs — informs Canadians and non-Canadians alike about Canada’s clean energy and climate change expertise, as well as our innovative clean energy industry. With the rapidly growing and highly technical clean energy industry delivering climate change solutions worldwide, the need for this resource
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Leica Geosystems announces Leica CloudWorx-VR for 3ds Max, 3ds Max design, and Maya. These plug-ins provide a convenient way for professionals to efficiently create more photorealistic and compelling models, renderings, and animations based on rich, High-Definition Survey data of sites and structures as collected by 3D laser scanners. The powerful, new plug-in was developed by
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
CartoPac Field Solutions announced that Electronic Data Solutions (Elecdata) of Jerome, Idaho is now a CartoPac Authorized Business Partner. Elecdata will market, sell, distribute, integrate and support the full suite of CartoPac mobile field data collection and asset management solutions for use in natural resource management, federal agencies, state and local municipalities and utilities, oil
