http://www.silicon.com Results for national geographic en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60604812p,00.htm 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 availability of business information to staff... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60579384p,00.htm 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 determine either precisely... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:24:12 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60515525p,00.htm 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. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:01:11 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/retailandleisure/0,3800011842,39353238,00.htm 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 Laboratory At five is the IBM Blue Gene/P system, seen here, at the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:11:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/retailandleisure/0,3800011842,39344717,00.htm 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 remotest parts of the Earth to the Western... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:54:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/retailandleisure/0,3800011842,39320358,00.htm 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 TV service, Sky Player. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:58:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/telecoms/0,39024659,39283620,00.htm 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 zones where infrastructure... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:16:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/pdas/0,39024643,39244192,00.htm 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 59 seconds. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:15:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39210524,00.htm 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) was initiated in 1999 to centralise all... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:57:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60320859p,00.htm 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 services organization with operations in... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:02:44 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39169604,00.htm 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 location and network connection data for each IP... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:29:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39169468,00.htm 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 mapping agency the organisation has a... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:10:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39168017,00.htm 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 formally vote on whether the Joint Photographic... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:50:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39167917,00.htm 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 significant opportunities to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:53:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39166844,00.htm 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 Barclays' retail data... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:09:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39165886,00.htm The geographic database is closely linked to the National Land and Property Gazeteer (NPLG) - an initiative to create a comprehensive property database for the whole of the UK. The geographic data also allowed the council to develop the website... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:30:03 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/broadband/0,39024661,39164515,00.htm Content providers signed up to BT Vision include the BBC, Disney, DreamWorks, National Geographic, SonyBMG, Universal and Viacom. BT has today pushed play on its long-touted IPTV offering, BT Vision, moving the telco into the quad-play era proper. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:45:03 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39163441,00.htm Google has worked on other customised layers for the US National Parks Service, the Discovery Channel and National Geographic. Google has created a mash-up that combines its popular Google Earth mapping program with information about the US... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:35:03 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/telecoms/0,39024659,39163306,00.htm Now BT is preaching as if it had not promoted and connived at defrauding the public over the increasingly detested non-geographic numbers 0845, 0870, etc. The BT programme to roll out a national IP network is moving towards fruition. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:45:04 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39159527,00.htm It doesn't reflect the geographic, the demographic, the regulatory, or the commercial differences across Europe. He added: "The proposal now says at the wholesale level these costs will be pegged to the national termination rate. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:30:03 +0000