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- Webraska Demonstrates World-Wide First live wireless Navigation On Java technology- Enabled Phones
[ 12/12/2000 ]
Webraska presents the world's first live demonstration of personal
navigation services taking advantage of Sun Microsystems' Java(TM) 2
Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME(TM)) technology at Sun's booth at the
major international telecom show - Telecom Asia 2000, Hong Kong
- Multimedia Mapping - Now Works with Remote GPS Receivers -- with Red Hen Systems'
[ 12/12/2000 ]
Red Hen Systems announced that its MediaMapper multimedia mapping software now maps digital still images via a wireless method, by linking them with data from remote GPS receivers. it expands the multimedia mapping field to include GIS users who already own a digital still camera and a handheld GPS receiver.
- Mobile Locations Services Needs to distinguish reality from the hype
[ 12/12/2000 ]
"Mobile Location Services (MLS) are being tipped as one of the new killer applications for mobile devices which will aggressively drive the market for carriers. Location based services - where am I?, where¹s the nearest? How do I get to?
- Autodesk Delivers XML Tool for AutoCAD 2000i Products with New Product Extension
[ 09/12/00 ]
DesignXML makes it possible to fully represent both graphical and nongraphical data using an open, published XML schema. It extends the value of DWG data by allowing external applications and processes (such as word documents and sales) to seamlessly use and create design data.
- GIS functionality of geographic information on the desktop : A new software by ESRI Redlands, California-
[ 09/12/00 ]
ESRI announces that PC ARC/INFO 4.0 is now shipping. PC ARC/INFO Software which gives users full GIS functionality for the management, analysis, display, and mapping of geographic information on the desktop.
- Maptech’s MapServer : Free Online Maps & Charts for Land, Marine & Air
[ 08/12/00 ]
Maptech (Andover, MA) adds official aeronautical charts nationwide and high altitude
marine navigation photographs to its free online MapServer at www.maptech.com.
- IBM, Infineon unveil magnetic memory technology
[ 08/12/2000 ]
International Business Machines is taking its latest research product out of the lab and on to the market with a new memory technology that, if successful, could change the industry.
- Globe Telecom, Airslide Test SMS/IP Gateway
[ 08/12/2000 ]
The Philippines' largest cellular service provider Globe Telecom and IP-based solutions provider Airslide Systems Wednesday successfully tested a short messaging service/Internet protocol (SMS/IP) gateway in the Philippine city of Bacoor.
- Mapping of Jakarta by IKONOS satellite imagery
[ 08/12/2000 ]
This is the largest and first project of its kind in Asia. Having a comprehensive and accurate large scale street map of the Jakarta area will allow for many GIS applications not possible before.
- New Batch Export & Seamless USGS Topo Maps by Maptech
[ 08/12/2000 ]
Maptech releases Terrain Professional (version 4.05) with new batch export and seamless map options. Batch export allows for multiple map images to be exported at one time with user-defined projections and datums. This enhanced functionality makes exporting maps easier and quicker. The seamless option allows the user to scroll seamlessly from map to map or view individual maps, complete with collar information.
- GeoSearch with Northern Light Content Now Available on MapBlast
[ 07/12/00 ]
Now, visitors to MapBlast! can find virtually anything by location on the Web -- from 10K runs to yoga classes
- OpenGIS Map Server by DEMIS
[ 06/12/00 ]
DEMIS is providing OpenGIS Map Server with lot
of interactive options on a very reseonable rate. Using a
fourth generation web browser, users can interactively view a remote
GIS database by selecting different layers to display, zooming in or
out through the whole world and querying other map features.
- Firepad demonstrates Fastest, Thinnest Vector Display Technology for the Handheld Devices
[ 06/12/00 ]
Firepad's vector solution is fast, thin, and
industry compliant. The technology is capable of loading data at a
rate of approximately 1,000 vectors per second, and rendering data
at approximately 2,500 vectors per second. A complex CAD drawing can
be rendered in approximately four seconds; a consumer map can be
rendered almost instantaneously.
- Earth Resource Mapping and Vicinity's MapBlast! to Combine Technologies
[ 07/12/00 ]
Earth Resource Mapping (ERM) selected MapBlast!, the Web site from Vicinity Corporation, to provide the "street map" portion of its solution, which seamlessly links databases of tax details, floor plan imagery, and airphoto/topographic maps served by Image Web Server.
- Endeavor lifts off with wings for ISS
[ 02/12/2000 ]
The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off carrying five astronauts and giant solar wings for the International Space Station (ISS).
- Earth Observing-1 Launch Successful
[ 01/12/2000 ]
Earth Observing - 1 (EO-1) was launched successfully on 21st Nov. at 1:24pm EST.
- Japan postpones the maiden flight of H-2A Launch Vehicle
[ 01/12/2000 ]
Japan's National Space Development Agency officially postpones the maiden flight of its H-2A launch vechicle from
February 2001 to the third quarter of the year.
- QickBird 2 Remote Sensing Satellite may be rescheduled
[ 01/12/2000 ]
After the loss of QuickBird 1 on Nov.2o, EarthWatch, the US based company is now weighing different options for
the launch of next satellite in this series, " QuickBird 2 ".
- Two new satellite projects okayed by Indian Government
[ 01/12/2000 ]
Govt. of India has sanctioned $144 million for the launch of 2 more satellites next year to boost telecommunication, TV broadcasting and
VSAT series network of the country.
- GPS used to determine the movement of Mt. Everest
[ 30/11/2000 ]
State bureau of Surveying of China used Global Positioning Surveys to determine the movement of Mt.Everest towards China.
- Russia Loses Contact With Satellite
[ 30/11/2000 ]
The AP has reported that Russian ground controllers lost contact with an American commercial satellite.
- More Capable Telecom and Remote Sensing Satellites
[ 28/11/2000 ]
A new family of high-frequency, indium phosphide (InP) integrated circuits developed by TRW and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., promises to increase data rates, shrink the size and increase the overall performance capabilities of next-generation satellite communications and remote sensing payloads.
- India goes over the Moon
[ 24/11/2000 ]
With it's first spacecraft ready to reach for the moon, India is set to cross the
final space frontier
- Eagle Point Releases ColorFast
[ 16/11/2000 ]
Eagle Point Software has released ColorFast, an inexpensive software program guaranteed to speed artistic rendering for CAD designs.
- Kodak Opens Software Architecture for Digital Images
[ 16/11/2000 ]
Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would make available its architecture for manipulating
picture metadata available as Open Source software.
- OmniSky Wireless Internet Service Available For the First Time in Color - on the HP Jornada 540 Series Pocket PC
[ 16/11/2000 ]
The OmniSky service for the HP Jornada supports OmniSky's multi-platform strategy -- providing an e-mail and Internet solution on popular handheld devices
- Arc Second Brings CAD to Mobile Computing Devices
[ 16/11/2000 ]
Arc Second Inc. is exhibiting its PocketCAD software in Microsoft's Partner Pavilion at the COMDEX Fall trade show in Las Vegas November 13 through 17.
- Kodak Sells Earth Imagery with the help of Logisoft on the Web in Five Currencies
[ 13/11/2000 ]
The e-commerce upgrade of Kodak's site will enable customers from the U.S., Canada, Italy, United Kingdom and Australia to use their respective local currency to buy high resolution aerial imagery of all five countries' major metropolitan areas.
- Trimble Launches GPS and GSM Wireless Communications Device for Fleet Management
[ 12/11/2000 ]
The CrossCheck GSM mobile communicator is a tightly integrated device that combines a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) technology and IQEvent Engine(TM) (IQEE) firmware in a single module.
- Eagle Point Announces Mobile Surveying Hardware -- Titan
[ 11/11/2000 ]
Titan -- an expandable ruggedized Windows CE handheld computer, which offers a Mobile Surveying Hardware
- Siemens AG Selects Sagent for Real-Time Management Solution to Analyze Patent-Related Data
[ 11/11/2000 ]
Sagent enables Siemens to access data from Siemens' Intellectual Property Application System (IPAS(TM)), cleanse the data, organize it and distribute it over the Siemens intranet to a globally dispersed group of end users.
- XYZ accepted as Spatial Information Portal in Australia
[ 7/11/2000 ]
Queensland ( Australia ) Government on the basis of recommendation of an assessment panel xyz.au.com was accepted as Spatial Information Portal.
- INSAT 2B shut down after technical snag
[ 4/11/2000 ]
INSAT 2B satellite, which supports India's telecommunications and
broadcast sectors was shut down after a technical hitch, the state-run space
research agency said on Saturday.
- Tripod Data Systems Adds Road Layout to New Survey Pro CE 2.0
[ 2/11/2000 ]
Tripod Data Systems announced the
release of Survey Pro for Windows CE version 2.0. This version adds road
layout and slope staking routines to the program. Road layout gives
surveyors the ability to enter road definitions and then stake the road
based on those definitions. Slope staking allows users to locate and stake
catch points given a center line and a slope.
- Maiden GSLV ( Geo Synchronous Launch Vehicle ) to be Launched by India in Feb 2001
[ 2/11/2000 ]
India is all set to take a major leap in Space technology with the likely launch of its first Geo Synchronous Launch
Vechile (GSLV) during the second half of february 2001.
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