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Geospatial Tool to uncover new clues about customer buying behavior
Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation has announced an alliance with Boeing Autometric to offer new data management software, Spatial Query Server(TM) (SQS(TM)), which enables the use of corporate data to uncover clues about customer buying behavior. When coupled with the powerful Teradata(R) database engine, SQS enables businesses to retrieve, organize and analyze geographic data and other customer information to better understand customers and act accordingly. Initial shipments will begin in the second quarter 2002. With the clues uncovered by SQS, companies can better solve complex business problems such as product pricing, customer segmentation, propensity to buy, sales forecasting and fraud detection. Businesses may use geospatial data to design marketing campaigns targeted to homes in a five-mile radius of a retail store. A real estate agent may use the information to assist homebuyers looking for a house on a quiet street. This intelligence can empower businesses to build profitable relationships that drive corporate growth
Visit: http://www.teradata.com/ & http://www.autometric.com/
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Boeing Delta II Successfully Deploys QuickBird Satellite
A Boeing Delta II 7320-10 rocket lifted off on 18 th October 2001 from Space Launch Complex 2W at Vandenberg Air Force Base, at 11:51 a.m. PDT carrying the DigitalGlobe QuickBird imaging satellite. One hour and 30 seconds later, the spacecraft was successfully deployed to a sun-synchronous orbit. The launch is the first of the two Delta II launches at Vandenberg this year for the Boeing Delta team. The Boeing Delta II was selected by DigitalGlobe to deploy QuickBird because of the launch vehicle's 100 percent mission success record since 1997. Applications of the QuickBird satellite include mapping, urban planning, agricultural monitoring, environmental impact assessment, and disaster assessment and response.
Visit: http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/delta/delta2/quickbird/
@Track Communications expands TrackWare coverage to Mexico, Canada
@Track Communications, Inc., a leading provider of wireless-based vehicle fleet management and intelligent mobile-asset-tracking solutions, has announced that it has signed a new agreement that significantly expands the potential market for its TrackWare(R) solution by expanding service to customers operating in Mexico and Canada. The agreement between @Track and Cellemetry LLC, a subsidiary of Numerex Corp., extends @Track's Cellemetry(R) Data Service coverage and enables @Track to offer trucking companies that haul freight into Mexico and Canada the ability to track their trailer fleets, even if those trailers are handed off to other carriers at the U.S. border. Also, @Track can develop and market additional products that utilize the Cellemetry technology under terms of the new contract. TrackWare utilizes Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite-based technology to determine trailer locations, and then reports this location information and event-driven status changes, such as unloaded/loaded status and trailer connect/disconnect status, in real time.
Visit: http://www.at-track.com/ & http://www.nmrx.com/
Paradigm announces Gordon Sharwood joins board of directors
Paradigm Advanced Technologies, Inc. has announced that Gordon Sharwood, Chairman of Sharwood Inc., has joined its Board of Directors. Mr. Sharwood has been involved in the Canadian financial and business community since 1956. He has been involved in a variety of senior roles within major Canadian financial institutions including Chief General Manager of the CIBC, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Traders Group Ltd and the Chairman of Guaranty Trust Company of Canada prior to founding Sharwood & Company (now Sharwood Inc.), an investment bank for entrepreneurs, in 1976. In addition, he was the Founding Chairman of First Choice Canadian Communications Corporation, the first pay-TV Channel in Canada awarded by the CRTC, in 1976. In addition, he sits on the Board of Directors of Dover Industries, Soliton Associates and Nutech Precision Metals Inc.
Visit: http://www.powerloc.com/
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AccuWeather.com offers free access to Afghanistan weather maps and forecasts
No country is on the world's radar screen more than Afghanistan, and AccuWeather, Inc. announced that it is providing free weather forecast maps on http://www.accuweather.com/ for Afghanistan and central Asia. Consumers can access free graphic and satellite weather maps, daily streaming video forecasts, and text forecasts to see the latest weather and learn the climatology of a region that is currently a source of national discussion and debate. The full-color weather maps, updated daily at 2 p.m. Eastern time, general forecasts for weather conditions for all of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other countries in central Asia, as well as specific forecasts for 550 locations in Afghanistan, are available from a link located on the AccuWeather.com homepage. The graphic forecast maps include regional condition overviews and frontal systems, while text forecasts include high and low temperatures and expected conditions within individual regions in Afghanistan. And with an AccuWeather.com exclusive, consumers can view streaming video forecasts presented by AccuWeather expert meteorologists that help explain weather conditions as they happen, and the impact they will have on the region. Also available are free, full-color extended forecast maps for Afghanistan, highlighting several cities throughout the country. These maps are also updated daily.
Visit: http://www.accuweather.com/
Taliban led West, UN up the garden path on opium
New Delhi: Indian narcotics control officials say that contrary to claims by the UN and some western countries that the Taliban ensured "zero cultivation" of opium this year, it is business as usual in Afghanistan as far as this drug trade is concerned.
In fact, analysis based on processing commercially available satellite imagery has shown that the Taliban had done little to block cultivation and the decline that occurred in the Helmand province was a consequence of a drought this summer.
The analysis based on commercial satellite imagery has been done in the following way: To obtain the images, the reflectance of opium in different areas and in varying concentrations per square meter is measured. Opium is grown in India legally and so it was "spotted" from satellite imagery to test the accuracy of the signature. The opium was given a yellow colour to facilitate recognition and after that the Afghan crop was tracked. Images A1, A2 and B1 and B2 all taken near Achin in the Nangarhar province near Pakistan were taken on identical dates in April 2000 and 2001 show that there has been more or less little change in the extent of cultivation.
Source: Times of India
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