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Thursday, June 9th, 2011

IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 2012 Busan, Korea

Welcome to the International Water Association (IWA)’s first electronic newsletter for the next IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition which will be held in Busan, South Korea from 16 to 21 September 2012. As planning proceeds and...

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

New Appointments at FOIF Survey

Optical Instrument Co., Ltd. held a meeting of shareholders and the fourth board to decide the resolution: Chuang Yuan Technology Co., Ltd. General Manager Mr. Zhu Zhihao to act as Vice Chairman; Mr. Cao Yidong (the original...

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Official Opening of the German Galileo Test and Development Environment GATE

The GATE test infrastructure is now capable of transmitting the Galileo OS, the Galileo Safety-of-Life (SoL) Service (functional), the Galileo Commercial Service (CS) and a Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS) dummy signal. The GATE system upgrade has been...

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Fujifilm Selects NAVTEQ Maps New GPS Enabled Digital Cameras

NAVTEQ has been selected by Fujifilm to support the introduction of their new GPS-enabled digital cameras with map data and POI content. NAVTEQ is now supplying map and POI (points of interest) data for Fujifilm's FinePix F550EXR...

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Fourfold Increase In GPS/GNSS IC Shipments By 2016

Along the way, the market will shift away from standalone ICs, to include combo chips and embedded GNSS solutions, with greater emphasis placed on alternative location. As forecast, the market is now expanding into new vertical markets such...

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

HP Adds to Converged Infrastructure Lineup

This strategy and products enable greater agility for customers, an area that C-level executives say is an important contributor to the success of businesses today, according to an HP survey. And much of that agility is driven...

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

China Bans Foreign Companies Offering Online Mapping

Foreign companies are effectively banned from providing Internet mapping services in China, however joint ventures are exempted, according to a notice issued by the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping on Wednesday. The notice cited an amended regulation...

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Democrats’ Megaprojects More Realistic – researcher

The Democrat Party is seen as having an edge over Pheu Thai in terms of megaproject policies that are more realistic and potentially less harmful to the environment. However, the country's oldest party should create more variety...

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Vector1 Media Welcomes Roger Longhorn with the Launch of SDI Magazine

Vector1 Media, publishers of V1 Magazine and Asian Surveying & Mapping, are pleased to welcome Roger Longhorn, an international expert on the development of spatial data infrastructure (SDI), as founder and editor of SDI Magazine (http://www.sdimag.com/). This...

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

2011 Be Together: The Bentley User Conference ‘Keynote Report’

Bentley Systems, Incorporated held its annual Be Together: The Bentley User Conference May 23-26, 2011, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A. This highly interactive conference, whose theme was “Sharpen Your Edge,” gave Bentley users the opportunity...