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| Ferguson-Jenkins & Associates Becomes VUEWorks' Channel Partner
| Ferguson-Jenkins & Associates (FJ&A), a full-service GIS implementation firm, has joined VUEWorks Inc.'s Channel Partner program. | | | Navman Adds Real-Time Alerts to OnlineAVL2
| | Navman Wireless North America has added real-time event alerts to its OnlineAVL2 fleet management software. | | | Bentley Unveils SewerCAD V8 XM
| | Bentley Systems Inc. has released SewerCAD V8 XM Edition, adding tools to its wastewater CAD software to evaluate capacity, size pipes, select pumps, and identify the locations of potential overflows. | | | InMaps Performs Fourth GE SmallWorld v4 Upgrade
| | GIS consulting services supplier InMaps, which specializes in electric and gas utility applications, has completed a GE Smallworld GIS upgrade project for Northeast Utilities in New England. | | | GeoAge Releases Mobile Work Force Tracking Software
| | GeoAge has introduced FAST Track, what it described as an automated PDA location system for tracking a mobile workforce. | | | Apisphere Sponsoring Application Developer Contest
| | Apisphere Inc. announced that it is seeking application developers and independent software vendors who want to integrate location-awareness into their mobile enterprise or consumer applications; it will invest in the top application submitted. | | | TrafficCast Brings in Wireless Vet for CEO Post
| | TrafficCast International Inc. has named wireless industry vet Neal Campbell as CEO, succeeding TrafficCast co-founder and president Connie Li. | | | Tri-Global Rolls Out Utility Suite for Mobile Workers
| | Tri-Global Technologies LLC announced that it introducing its Mobile Utility Suite at the Partner Software Users Conference being held this week in Athens, Ga. | | | Northern Natural Gas Turns to ITT Angel Services
| | Omaha, Nebraska-based Northern Natural Gas (NNG) has chosen ITT Corp.'s Airborne Natural Gas Emission LIDAR (ANGEL) Services to perform pipeline leak surveys and corridor monitoring work in New Mexico, Texas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, and Michigan. | |  MORE ARTICLES
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| Cognitive Radio Design for a Military Platform
| | Current radio frequency assignments — which are static, inflexible, and inefficient — have a detrimental effect on military communications. A potential solution, the cognitive radio, uses an onboard digital map system to select transmission frequencies and potentially shape the RF beam. | | |
Navigation Drives LBS
| | Navigation is hands-down the top dog in location-based services. Sales of portable nav systems in the United States are predicted to finish 2006 somewhere north of 2.5 million, more than double last year's sales. Betting that the past is prelude to future, many analysts project a similarly rosy future ahead for PNDs. | | | NAVTEQ: Stuck in Traffic or Changing Into The Fast Lane?
| | For years, Navteq has considered itself as more than a mapping company, perceiving itself, instead, as a road-related content supplier. Earlier this month, however, NAVTEQ made its most dramatic move yet to reposition itself by acquiring Traffic.com — a roughly $50 million per year traffic supplier. | | | A Winning Global LBS Challenge
| | On March 15 at the CTIA Wireless 2005 Conference in New Orleans, NAVTEQ, a global provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions (LBS), awarded the winners of the second annual Global LBS Challenge. The contest, which challenged developers to build location-enabled applications for wireless devices, was an expansion on the first contest that was launched in October 2003. . . . | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Water Modeling for the Tsunami Recovery Program
| | Water modeling experts are working with the American Red Cross to rehabilitate water and sanitation systems in Indonesia and other tsunami-affected areas.
| | | Curbing Water Pollution with Mobile GIS
| | In 1972, the United States declared war on water pollution with the passage of the Clean Water Act. As the primary water/wastewater utility for a city flanked by water on three sides, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) played an aggressive role in the battle to eradicate industrial contaminants that were fouling both San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. And in 2005, SFPUC deployed mobile GIS to take the water pollution fight directly to the public. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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