Thursday, November 29th, 2007
PR – DigitalGlobe, provider of the world’s highest-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today announced that WorldView-1 has completed its commissioning, meets all of its requirements, and is delivering imagery to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) as part of the NextView program. Full Operating Capability (FOC) with NGA began on November 17th. Following
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
PR – Google announced a new strategic initiative to develop electricity from renewable energy sources that will be cheaper than electricity produced from coal. The newly created initiative, known as RE<C, will focus initially on advanced solar thermal power, wind power technologies, enhanced geothermal systems and other potential breakthrough technologies. RE<C is hiring engineers and
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
PR – Valtus Imagery Services, a division of North West Geomatics Ltd. announced today that Ms Tammy Peterson has joined the Valtus team as Customer Solutions Manager. The addition of Peterson will continue the company’s expansion in Canada and the United States.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
BUSINESS JOURNAL – OSI Geospatial Inc. has won a US$750,000 contract to provide an upgrade for its all-in-one navigational system to the Denmark’s warships. The Ottawa-based company said its International Systems Operations division will be upgrading its Electronic Chart Precise Integrated Navigation System (ECPINS) warship navigation software to its latest version for the Danish Navy.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
PR – Infotech Enterprises GmbH, a leading provider of CAD software and digital design communication solutions, today announced the release of KeyCreator 7, a new version of the widely used mechanical design and manufacturing CAD/CAM software. KeyCreator 7 includes numerous performance improvements and customer-driven productivity enhancements, as well as additional advances in Kubotek’s unique direct modeling
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
PR – Infotech Enterprises, a leading provider of CAD software and digital design communication solutions, has announced that a new CAD-independent product is available to compare and validate models.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
PR – Devon County Council has received two prestigious national awards for a project to map the County’s road network, and related assets, in order to improve the quality of the their road maintenance programme in light of decreasing budgets. Devon was presented with the 2007 National Street Gazetteer (NSG) Best Gazetteer Integration together with
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
PR – HP today announced relationships with two renewable energy providers, SunPower Corp. in the United States and Airtricity in Ireland, as part of the company’s strategy to reduce its global carbon footprint. Under a power purchase agreement with SunPower, HP will install its first-ever, large-scale solar power installation at its San Diego facility. The
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
PR — Health and human service practitioners are using geographic information system (GIS) applications to broaden their view of today’s complex health issues, from maintaining healthy populations, to understanding obesity, to responding to threats to public health. Stephanie Bailey, MD, M.S.H.S.A., chief, Public Health Practice, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recently challenged colleagues
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
PR — Today Safe Software introduced a free FME FDO Provider for AutoCAD Map 3D 2008. Map 3D users now have a faster and easier way to access nine popular import formats from directly within the application’s Data Connect dialog box. “Our FME technology has been an integrated part of AutoCAD Map 3D for almost
