Navigating Washington by Earthcomber (Asbury Park Press) Navigating Washington by Earthcomber
...more...O'Keeffe Exhibit In Vermont; Knickerbocker Hotel Is Sold (Hartford Courant) Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vt., is hosting a Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition this summer, featuring 25 works that provide an overview of the famous artist's works. Many of the paintings, including landscapes, still lifes and abstract paintings, date from the 1920s, when O'Keeffe was just emerging as a star. "Simple Beauty: Patintings by Georgia O'Keeffe" opened Saturday and continues through Oct. ...more... Alert system ready, but will it be only a test? (Current (Public Broadcasting)) A digital emergency alert system using the public TV satellite system and local DTV transmitters could be operating along at least part of the Gulf Coast in time for the 2006 hurricane season, APTS President John Lawson told an FCC panel....more... The Search Engine Report - Number 115 (Search Engine Watch) Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan recaps top search engine stories from May 2006. ...more... What?s the emergency? We?ve got spectrum! (Current (Public Broadcasting)) In 2004, the fire department in Rochester, N.Y. ? hoping to revamp its training program for firefighters ? approached WXXI, the local public TV station, with a question: Could it create a real-time TV channel to broadcast training materials, as many pubTV stations do for community colleges?...more... Intergraph Selected by the Spanish Army for Digital Map Production (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) HUNTSVILLE, Ala.----June 15, 2006--Intergraph Corporation today announced that Centro Geografico del Ejercito de Tierra has selected and implemented Intergraph geospatial technology to create a completely digital end-to-end production workflow for processing and finishing paper maps....more... Major Web Browsers Getting Facelifts (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) NEW YORK (AP) - The major Web browsers are getting facelifts as they increasingly become the focal point for handling business transactions and running programs over the Internet rather than simply displaying Web sites. The upgrades are the latest skirmish in the browser war that started in the mid-1990s and led to Microsoft's triumph over Netscape. The battles reignited in 2004, when Mozilla's ...more... Yellow PagesŪ Maps now available on internet (Scoop.co.nz) From today Kiwis can get maps and directions online at www.yellowpages.co.nz and through www.whitepages.co.nz....more... South Africa: Country Builds On Advanced U.S. Fire-Detection Technology (AllAfrica.com) Active fire maps are being broadcast on television in South Africa and fire alerts are sent over cell phones there, thanks to NASA satellites and remote-sensing technology developed at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI) and the University of Maryland....more... |