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Bentley Systems announced that Technische Werke Friedrichshafen (TWF), a regional multi-utility in southern Germany supplying electricity, gas, water, and heat to 36,000 energy users, has implemented a geographic information system (GIS) based on Bentley sisNET

With reference to our press release of 14 May 2008 Fugro has today formally notified the holders of € 125,000,000 - 2.375% subordinated convertible bonds due 2010 (the Convertible Bonds”) that these will be redeemed on 2 July 2008.

Directions Magazine, a US based media house for Geospatial Technology has joined hands with GIS Development, the organisers of Map World Forum as a Media Partner. The partnership is in continuation of the two media houses already established relation since the first Map World Forum held in January 2007 in India.

More than 300 professionals from banking, health care, insurance, logistics, manufacturing, media, real estate, retail, utilities, and related industries attended the 2008 ESRI Business GIS Summit in Chicago, Illinois, April 27–30, 2008. Attendees included skilled geographic information system (GIS) users as well as those interested in learning more about the technology. It is the only event of its kind in the industry.

1Spatial is announced their support for the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Technical Committee Meeting in Potsdam, Germany, from 2nd to 6th June.

In its newly released version 3.0, Leica MobileMatriX offers the ability to synchronize survey data with an enterprise geodatabase, transfer digital images taken from a mobile phone via Bluetooth and link it with a feature, in addition to many other improvements.

ERDAS announces Extract the Frustration from Feature Extraction, a free webinar on Thursday, June 5 at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. (EDT). This webinar will highlight the Beta release of IMAGINE Objective, a solution for building and maintaining accurate geospatial content, with object based multi-scale image classification and feature extraction technology.

The GeoInformation Group, publishers of Cities Revealed aerial photography, announce that it has been awarded a major development project grant by the East of England Development Agency (EEDA). The grants awarded by the EEDA for Research and Development, are designed to help technology-focussed entrepreneurs based in the East of England carry out research and development work on innovative products and processes.

DigitalGlobe, a provider of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today unveiled ImageConnect: Oil and Gas, an online imagery service for oil and gas professionals worldwide with on-demand access via GIS and WMS services to areas of global oil and gas exploration. Built upon DigitalGlobe’s standard ImageConnect solution for GIS professionals, ImageConnect Oil and Gas provides high-precision, accurate imagery of geographic areas important to upstream oil and gas exploration, including oil basins, refineries, pipelines and high-interest geological areas for the oil and gas industry.