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ENCAD Upgrades Vibrant-Link RIP for Raster Image Processing
ENCAD, Inc., a maker of digital image printing technology announced the immediate availability of its Vibrant-Link RIP (Raster Image Processor) version 3.0. Providing a complete RIP solution, Vibrant-Link 3.0 is a true Adobe PostScript Level 3 RIP that is easy-to-use and offers a one-step "RIP and Print" capability for ENCAD NovaJet 800 Series, 750, and 736 model wide-format color printers. Priced at $899 (MSRP), Vibrant-Link 3.0 offers a comprehensive wide-format printing solution that until now many customers have not been able to afford. Vibrant-Link 3.0 provides built-in color profiles for all ENCAD ink and media combinations to ensure accurate colors across a wide range of applications. PC and Mac operator RIPing, preview, and printing performance are dramatically increased with Vibrant-Link 3.0's user-friendly imaging options such as scaling, rotating, mirror imaging, and step and repeat. Vibrant-Link 3.0 is designed for first-time buyers, price sensitive buyers, and customers that are new to the concept of wide-format printing. Industry market segments include corporate in-house, quick print/copy shops, ad agencies, color photo labs, government agencies, and graphic artists.
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Eagle Point Software Completes Merger
Eagle Point Software Corporation announced the completion of its previously announced merger with an entity formed by John F. Biver, a founder and director of Eagle Point and former vice president of the company's Civil Applications Division.
All outstanding shares of Eagle Point prior to the merger (other than those held by Mr. Biver and two of his companies) were converted into the right to receive $6.40 per share in cash (except that two former officers of Eagle Point will receive a portion of their merger consideration in the form of subordinated promissory notes). In the near future, shareholders of record will receive instructions for submitting their shares and receiving the merger consideration. Eagle Point's stock will no longer be publicly traded.
TORNADO Technologies Launches AEC|VIZ 2.0
TORNADO Technologies has announced the release of version 2.0 of AEC|VIZ, the software for visualization, communication and promotion of 3D/2D content. The new version includes a major update, with new features that make AEC|VIZ a truly versatile and effective application for the visualization and communication of models and projects in 2D or 3D. Keeping the same interface, AEC|VIZ 2.0 includes more functions enhancing its usefulness for communication while remaining as easy to use as ever. To give new users a chance to thoroughly test AEC|VIZ, and because of the growing demand, the trial period has been lengthened to 30 days instead of one week. The counters have also been reset to zero, so that anyone can download the demonstration version again and test it at their leisure for 30 days, irrespective of previous trials.
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DCSE Announces Release of an ESRI ArcMap(TM) Extension In Support of Its Map Library Product
DCSE, Inc., a California developer of collaborative Web-based project solutions, announced the launch of a new component to its Map Library product. The component, an extension to ESRI's ArcMap software, is designed to make publishing maps to Map Library easy for the GIS Staff. The web-based Map Library makes finding maps much easier for non-technical staff that did not create the maps in the first place. It provides an easy to use and scalable application for project participants to share and connect project-critical maps. It is applicable to utility and infrastructure projects, where many users wish to see the information in a map without having to call the GIS department to have one recreated.
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Integral Systems to Acquire Newpoint Technologies
Integral Systems, Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Newpoint Technologies, Inc. of Salem, New Hampshire in an all-cash deal, subject to the approval of Newpoint's shareholders. The company, which is currently held privately, will continue to operate independently as a wholly-owned subsidiary. Newpoint is an industry leader in Satellite and Terrestrial Network Management Systems for control of data, internet, broadcast, telecom, and hybrid networks. Newpoint has been the industry's dominant supplier of software and systems for equipment M&C (Monitoring And Control) and is a recipient of Satellite Communications Magazine's prestigious ``Most Innovative Product'' award in 1999. Newpoint's principal customers are commercial satellite operators, telecommunications companies, and broadband service providers.
QUALCOMM Announces JB Hunt to Deploy the OmniExpress Mobile Communications System
QUALCOMM Incorporated, the leader in mobile communications for the transportation industry, today announced that Lowell, Ark.-based JB Hunt Transport, the nation's largest publicly held truckload carrier, has selected the OmniExpress® mobile communications system for its intermodal fleet. Under the terms of the agreement, JB Hunt will begin immediately deploying OmniExpress system units in its intermodal fleet. With this agreement, JB Hunt expands its 10-year mobile communications relationship with QUALCOMM to equip its smaller local fleet of vehicles. OmniExpress system is a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)-based digital wireless fleet management system that provides near real-time, two-way communications and vehicle position reporting for improved mobile worker productivity and operations administration. Features include two-way data communications, store-and-forward messaging, automatic vehicle tracking using integrated Global Positioning System (GPS), as well as data integration capabilities with routing and scheduling systems, and business-specific office applications.
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Asia News
New radars to step up surveillance
India is stepping up its surveillance capabilities by inducting an array of new radar systems and upgrading the old ones, Defence Minister George Fernandes said on Friday. He was addressing a meeting of the Parliament Consultative Committee on Defence.
Fernandes told them that the government had approved the direct acquisition of the Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS).
“The Defence Research and development organisation (DRDO) has designed and developed a maritime surveillance radar, and its first prototype is ready,” Fernandes said.
“The DRDO is now in the process of developing indigenous battlefield surveillance radars for use by the artillery. Two prototypes are likely to be ready for trials by the first half of next year.” He said that the DRDO had reached “a level of maturity” in indigenous design and development of complex radar systems.
It has developed the multi-function phased array radars for ground-based applications, surveillance radars for air-picture generation with transportable radars, reconnaissance radars on helicopter platform for locating targets on sea, ground and air and state-of-the-art active array radar systems for long range radars and high power radar transmitters.
He said the private sector will also be gradually associated in this field, he said,adding “Maximum association of industries is also being ensured for ground-based relocatable radars.”
China Polishes Environment Monitoring Facilities
Officials with China National Environment Monitoring Center said that the country will further
strengthen the environment monitoring system next year.
Focus will be laid on improving data transmission and system
expanding and automatization, according to Friday's China Daily.
The officials said the system monitors China's environmental
situation to detect pollution, particularly pollution of the air
and water. The center then sends reports to the government for use
in policy making and pollution control.
The center plans to build more automatic monitoring stations
for air quality across the country, including some in rural areas,
according to China Daily.
Ding Zhongyuan, the center's deputy director, said Thursday
that attention should be paid to the air quality in China's vast
countryside, where a huge population of farmers lives.
He said that preparatory work will start in rural areas next
year and the monitoring stations are expected to start operation
in 2003.
Another 30 automatic monitoring stations for water quality are
to be completed by next June with financial support from the World
Bank.
China currently has 111 automatic monitoring stations for water
quality along the country's 10 major rivers. Enditem
Asteroid Named After Rocket Pioneer
Chinese scientific circles convened here Friday for a ceremony to name an asteroid after the nation's rocket pioneer, Qian Xuesen, academician of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).
Jiang Ying, Qian's wife, and nearly 200 scientists and technology specialists from throughout the country attended the ceremony.
The international astronomic authoritative organs have approvedthe naming of the asteroid, which was found by a CAS astronomer.
Zhang Yutai, vice chairman of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, Lu Yongxiang, CAS president, Wang Dianzuo,CAE vice president, and Yuan Jiajun, vice director of the Chinese Research Institute of Space Technology, all gave speeches at the ceremony lauding Qian's great academic achievements, especially his outstanding contribution to the nation's missile development and space technology in recent decades.
The scientific circles regard Qian as an excellent example of "a modern-day gifted Chinese."
Born in Shanghai on December 11, 1911, Qian obtained his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Heis now a senior scholar with both the CAS and CAE.
Qian was awarded the CAS top prize for natural sciences in 1957and a top prize for national scientific and technological advancement in 1985.
He has also had the title National Scientist with DistinguishedAccomplishment conferred on him. Enditem
Miner & Miner and IMAGEM SENSORIAMENTO REMOTO from São José dos Campos, Brazil have partnered to offer powerful AM/FM/GIS solutions to electric, gas, water and wastewater utilities throughout Brazil and Latin America. Imagem will be completing its Business Partner training in Miner & Miner's ArcFM(tm) to become a certified ArcFM Training Center. Upon which Imagem will be in a position to conduct Portuguese-based ArcFM training for their clients. Imagem will provide a means for Miner & Miner to better serve the Brazilian utility market place. They will provide local support and training to existing projects as well as implementation services and consulting to new and potential customers in the region.
