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EU's Galileo satnav system over budget, late: reportBerlin (AFP) Oct 7, 2010 Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system, meant to rival the US-built Global Positioning System (GPS), is over budget, running late and will be unprofitable for years, a press report said on Thursday. Extra costs of 1.5-1.7 billion euros (2.1-2.4 billion dollars) are expected and the project will not be ready until 2017-18, Germany's Financial Times Deutschland daily cited a European Commission report as saying. Originally the system was meant to be up and running, rivalling the dominance of ... read more |
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Sterling VA (SPX) Sep 29, 2010SkyBitz has announced that Rush Trucking has chosen SkyBitz as their trailer tracking solution for their fleet. In just six months, Rush Trucking has already experienced benefits from using the SkyBitz Gemini Series GLS400 to recover 3 stolen trailers. Rush Trucking was alerted when the trailers moved outside the electronic fence they set up, which allowed them to quickly react and recover ... more 
Thornton CO (SPX) Sep 29, 2010Thousands of GPS-stamped photos showing the locations of sensitive habitats and wildlife impacted by the oil spill in the Gulf have helped decision makers determine where to deploy clean-up crews. These 'geotagged' photos are served out via the web to multiple Emergency Operations Centers (EOC) using photo-mapping software from GeoSpatial Experts LLC, as well as geographic information syst ... more  
San Diego CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2010University of Southern California computer scientists have found a way to combine smartphone resources with a novel application that allows the phones' users to help monitor air quality. The researchers, from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, hope that as many users as possible download and try it in order to improve the software. Currently, the download works for smartphones running ... more |
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Cuba May Link Up To Glonass SystemHavana, Cuba (RIA Novosti) Sep 17, 2010 Moscow and Havana plan to connect Cuba to the Glonass navigation satellite system, the Russian ambassador to Cuba said on Wednesday. Glonass - the Global Navigation Satellite System - is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civilian use. Both systems enable users to determine their positions to within a few meters. Russia and Cuba are currently developing cooperation in the sphere of advanced technology, Mikhail Kamynin n ... read more |
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