national geographic
Ordnance Survey Puts Records Management on the Map With HP TRIM Software
White Paper Ordnance Survey, Great Britain's national mapping agency provides the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data that is relied on by government and businesses. Ordnance Survey needed to improve the... [21 Jun 2009]
Distributed Qualitative Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper The use of localization mechanism is essential in wireless sensor networks either for communication protocols (geographic routing protocol) or for application (vehicle tracking). The goal of localization mechanism is to... [23 Apr 2009]
Object-Oriented Classification for Change Detection With Different Spatial Resolution Images
White Paper With rapid new technological development during the past 50 years, aerial photos have been increasingly and commonly used not only in geographic information systems but also in various spatially related applications. [13 Dec 2008]
Photos: Windows 7, supercomputers, Google Labs, iPill
Photo The National Geographic Society opened its flagship store on London's Regent Street last week in time for the switching on of the Christmas lights. Photo credit: Argonne National... [27 Nov 2008]
Photos: National Geographic explores store tech
Photo The National Geographic Society opened its flagship store on London's Regent Street last week in time for the switching on of the Christmas lights, celebrating the society's 120 years of bringing the... [18 Nov 2008]
iPlayer reaches for the Sky
News Sky Player offers channels from several broadcasters including National Geographic, The History Channel and ESPN Classic, alongside various Sky channels. BBC iPlayer is now accessible via BSkyB's online... [20 Oct 2008]
Fibre era fraught with roadblocks: EC
News Unbundling of fibre is currently neither technically nor economically possible which means that alternative operators must invest in their own fibre or use a bitstream service of the incumbent… In the many geographic... [04 Sep 2008]
Photos: Steve Jobs dances the iPhone 3G tune
Photo In a side-by-side speed test, Jobs showed that the iPhone's 3G network downloads the National Geographic page in 21 seconds, while the Edge network, which was used in the first-generation iPhone, takes... [10 Jun 2008]
Geographic database opens doors to private sector
News A national geographical electronic database is now available for commercial use after all 376 English and Welsh local authorities signed up to supply data. The National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG)... [30 Apr 2008]
Australian Bank Improves File Services and Software Deployment for Its Branch Offices
White Paper Geographic dispersal of its offices has slowed regional application deployment in the Australian division, the bank's largest business group. National Australia Bank (NAB) Group is a leading financial... [02 Apr 2008]
Geography lessons for online retailers
Comment Geolocation has essentially dispelled the myth of the borderless internet by enabling geographic locations to determine what content is displayed to whom. The technology determines the geographic... [09 Jan 2008]
Ordnance Survey opens up mapping code
News Vanessa Lawrence, the OS's director general and CEO, said of the project that technology is creating new benefits from geographic information. An OS spokesman told silicon.com that as the UK's national... [14 Dec 2007]
Microsoft's 'new JPEG' to get standards vote
News But it has become an option in some specific niche markets such as digital cinema, medical imaging, and mapping and geographic information systems. In coming months, 16 national standards groups will... [01 Aug 2007]
Surprise bidder makes a play for iSoft
News Frank Gotthardt, CompuGroup's president and chief executive, said he was delighted at the iSoft board's recommendation and said the fit between the two companies was "strong with complementary geographic footprints and... [23 Jul 2007]
ABN Amro, Barclays: Data centres on savings hit-list
News Daniel Mayo, director of financial service technology at analyst house Datamonitor, told silicon.com one of the biggest challenges for both companies will be overcoming the geographic differences between the two - with... [23 Apr 2007]
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