GEO World articles from February 2002

GEO World archives from February 2002

Delivering the promise of technology. (From the Editor).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Realistic 3-D visualization and wireless connectivity hold great promise for enhancing the application and efficiency of spatial technology. Two features in this month's issue, "Wireless Innovations Support Sea Floor Mapping" by Bill Collins...

Utah to track olympic athletes with AVL Technology. (News Link).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... An estimated 3,500 athletes, coaches and trainers as well as 80,000 (daily) spectators are expected to converge in Utah for the upcoming 2002 Winter Olympic Games to beheld Feb. 8-24, 2002, in Salt Lake City. To improve safety and reduce...

National guard to invest further in map data. (News Link).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The U.S. Army National Guard has been using GIS in one form or anther for more than 15 years. In the last three years, however, GIS activity has been gaining momentum with the creation of a stronger, more centrally managed program at the...

Government-owned company status proposed for Ordnance Survey. (News Link).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Ordnance Survey, Great Britain's national mapping agency, could become a government-owned public limited company, according to a report that was presented to Parliament in late December 2001. An independent review into Ordnance Survey's future...

Applied GIS Inc., Schenectady, N.Y. (Online Update).(supplies application to New York State Office for Technology)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... http://www.appliedgis.com Applied GIS has been developing a World Wide Web-based "Help Desk" application for the New York State (NYS) Office for Technology's NYS GIS Clearinghouse Web site (http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us), which now is...

Avenza Systems Inc., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. (Online Update).(holds map competition, posts results on Web site)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... http://liam.avenza.com/MPcomp/2001/ Avenza Systems added to its Web site the results of the 2001 MA Publisher Map Competition, which provided the company's users with a forum to showcase their work, share ideas and compare their...

Beartooth Mapping Inc., Red Lodge, Mont. (Online Update).(partners with Maps a la Carte to sell maps online)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... http://www.mytopo.com Beartooth Mapping and Maps a la Carte Inc., developer of TopoZone.com, partnered to provide TopoZone users with a direct link to Beartooth Mapping's MyTopo.com "print-on-demand" topographic map service. The...

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. (Internet Resource of the Month).(provides online resource)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... http://www.davidrumsey.com Visualizing historical change by way of 19th- and early 20th-century maps and modem aerial photos, satellite imagery and other raster-based data now is a freely accessible World Wide Web experience and part of...

Earth Resource Mapping, San Diego. (Online Update).(provides technology for Kampsax Web site)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... http://www.ermapper.com Using Earth Resource Mapping's Enhanced Compressed Wavelet and Image Web Server technology, European data supplier Kampsax recently launched a Web site (http://wwwkortal.dk) that features some of the world's largest...

eMapSite.com Ltd., Hampshire, United Kingdom. (Online Update).(forms agreement with Ordnance Survey)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... http://www.emapsite.com eMapSite.com agreed with Ordnance Survey to produce and deliver via its Web site a variety of value-added products based on the detailed height data contained within the Ordnance Survey's Land-Form PROFILE dataser,...

GeoMicro Inc., Santa Ana, Calif. (Online Update).(provides software to Lucas County, Ohio)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... http://www.geomicro.com GeoMicro announced that Lucas County, Ohio, provided "real-time" election results via the Internet using its AltaMap Server software package, a scalable product for the delivery of maps across the Internet. (Live...

Interdisciplinary Spatial Information Systems (ISIS) Center, California State University Fresno, Fresno, Calif. (Online Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... http://www.isis.csufresno.edu/census/data/#AsainNationsShp California State University Fresno's ISIS Center added to its Census Information Center Web page Census 2000 data on Asian demographic distributions, including a set of tables that...

MapInfo Corp., Troy, N.Y. (Online Update).(provides software for United State Geological Survey Web site)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... http://www.mapinfo.com U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) introduced via its National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Web site (http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/) a mapping application that displays scientific results on a map. Users can select...

Pixxures Inc., Arvada, Colo. (Online Update).(Axion Spatial Imaging)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... http://www.pixxures.com Pixxures Inc. and Axion Spatial Imaging completed the compression and online delivery of the entire U.S. Geological Survey digital orthophoto quarter quads Image Database, which totals more than 13 terabytes of...

RADARSAT International (RSI), Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. (Online Update).(offers satellite data online)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... http://www.rsi.ca RSI's catalog of archived LANDSAT satellite data now is available online for searching and ordering, and the company is offering a reduced price for scenes that have been archived at RSI for more than six months. More...

Riegl USA, Orlando, Fla. (Online Update).(redesigns Web site)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... http://www.rieglusa.com Riegl USA redesigned its corporate Web site to provide users with improved navigation and the latest technological advancements and industry applications for its noncontact laser range finders and scanning products,...

Tele Atlas North America, Menlo Park, Calif. (Online Update).(holds industry seminars)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... http://www.na/teleatlas.com/FreeSeminar Tele Atlas North America launched via its Web site a series of free, online industry seminars (or "Webinars") that focus on data issues in GIS, location-based services and navigation arenas.

People link.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... DMTI Spatial Inc., Markham, Ontario, Canada, hired Heather Hodgson as a controller. Intergraph Corp., Huntsville, Ala., announced its Process & Building Solutions division named Ben Eazzetta executive vice president of Global Sales &...

GITA brings IT together" at conference 25: Tampa to host annual event's silver anniversary. (Conference Connection).
February 1, 2002... Aurora, Colo.-based Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) will celebrate its 25th annual conference March 17-20, 2002, at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Fla. Regarded as one of the premier educational events for...

Stratify maps to make better predictions. (Beyond Mapping).
February 1, 2002... Last month's "Beyond Mapping" column described procedures for predictive analysis of mapped data. Although the underlying theory, concerns and considerations can easily consume a graduate class for a semester, the procedure is quite simple....

Get your free interoperability roadmap. (Open GIS Connection).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... If you've been reading the "Open GIS Connection" column through the years, you've learned how the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) consensus specification development process, augmented now by an active testbed program, yields OpenGIS Specifications...

Integrated systems offer best solution for GASB34 compliance. (GPS/GIS Integration).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... In June 1999, the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASBj issued a directive known as GASB34 that significantly changes how state and local governments must maintain inventories of their infrastructure assets, The underlying intent of...

MapPoint 2002: Toy or tool? (Business Geographics).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Microsoft's MapPoint 2002, with its many new features, begs the question of where the product is headed (for a review, see "Quick-Take Reviews," GEO World, August 2001, page 52, or on the World Wide Web at...

Mapping earth's final frontier: Scientists use GIS and related spatial technology to wirelessly map the sea floor. (Remote Sensing).
February 1, 2002... The ocean floor still is considered a vastly uncharted frontier. As the costs of operating in such an environment increase, innovative methods for exploration must be found. Quester Tangent Corp. of Sidney, British Columbia, Canada, in...

Is virtual reality the next generation of GIS? (3-D Visualization).
February 1, 2002... For many years, the City Planning Authority of Gothenburg, Sweden, has used visualization and virtual reality (VR) techniques for city planning. Now such technology is being used in one of the "hottest" real estate development projects in...

Sudden oak death: geospatial technology tackles tree infestation. (Environmental Management).
February 1, 2002... Dead tan oak, coast live oak and black oak trees along a 190-mile stretch of California coastline are baffling researchers who have turned to innovative technology to help solve the dramatic problem. Scientists are combining field research with...

How good are your maps? (Data Accuracy).
February 1, 2002... If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many more words is a map worth? Ten times as many? A hundred times? A thousand times? Consider the last map you glanced at, and suppose you were to write down every fact depicted on it. The list would...

Avenza Systems Inc. (Data).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Avenza Systems Inc., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, released Major Cities USA, a set of 44 ready-to-use and royalty-free Adobe Illustrator files based on the U.S. Census Bureaus Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing 2000...

Europa Technologies Ltd. (Data).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Europa Technologies Ltd., Surrey, United Kingdom, released Global Insight version 2.2, a digital world map and gazetteer that features enhancements such as updated political mapping; an increase to more than 513,000 place names; place-name...

Resource GIS and Imaging Ltd. (Data).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Resource GIS and Imaging Ltd. (RGI), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, announced an introductory price ($350) for all of its Level lG Landsat 7 images.

CAPS Logistics Inc. (Software).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... CAPS Logistics Inc., Atlanta, released INNOVATION, which uses the company's Supply Chain Designer technology to provide strategic supply chain analysis and optimization capabilities, allowing users to rationalize strategic sourcing, production...

Digital Data Technologies Inc. (Software).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Digital Data Technologies Inc. (DDTI), Columbus, Ohio, released iView E-911, a vendor-independent geographic information mapping program for the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) environment (usually the police, fire and/or rescue groups as...

Eastman Kodak Co. (Software).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y., announced its Commercial & Government Systems unit released Fast Line- of-sight Atmospheric Analysis of Spectral Hypercubes (FLAASH), an atmospheric correction module for subsidiary Research Systems Inc's...

Endeavors Technology Inc. (Software).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Endeavors Technology Inc., Calif., released Magi Enterprise version 2.0, a collaboration platform that allow users to build and maintain secure communities of collaborators to share and exchange information using World Wide Web-enabled devices....

ESRI Inc. (Software).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... ESRI Inc., Redlands, Calif., released Business MAP Travel Edition, a mapping tool for business travelers that features direct links from ACT!, GoldMine, Outlook and Excel as well as data from Access dBASE, text files and other applications;...

GeoConcept SA. (Software).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... GeoConcept SA, Paris, released GeoConcept G5, the latest version of the company's GIS product designed to fulfill two production criteria: simplicity of use and power. Features include geographic information processing tools with personalized...

MapCloud Services Inc. (Software).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... MapCloud Services Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, released FreshMaps version 2.0, an interactive, World Wide Webbased mapping system that allows Web developers and GIS professionals to publish map data via the Internet without...

NovaLIS Technologies. (Software).(Land Development Office 8.1)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... NovaLIS Technologies, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, released Land Development Office (LDO) version 8.1, a scalable product designed to help land records organizations of any size/budget ensure the consistent application of regulations as well...

OpenOSX.com. (Software).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... OpenOSX.com, Swall Meadows, Calif., released OpenOSX Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) 5.0 Pre2 for Mac OS X, an open-source GIS that provides users with 3-D spatial analysis and visualization capabilities. The product...

OriginLab Corp. (Software).(Origin 7.0 presentation software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... OriginLab Corp., Northampton, Mass., released Origin version 7.0, a Microsoft Windows-based scientific graphing and data analysis product that combines "presentation-quality graphics," the C language and elements of the Numerical Algorithms...

Applanix Corp. (Hardware).(Applanix Position and Orientation System for Land Vehicles 220)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... Applanix Corp., Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, released Position and Orientation System for Land Vehicles (POS LV) 220, a lower-priced version of the company's POS LV 420 product, which is used worldwide in precision applications such as road...

DAT/EM Systems International. (Hardware).(DAT/EM Systems International Keypad)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... DAT/EM Systems International, Anchorage, Alaska, released a new version of its DAT/EM Keypad product, which is compatible with all of the company's software (versions 2.1 or greater). The DAT/EM Keypad now offers 252 keys and is programmable...

Leica Geosystems Inc. (Hardware).(Leica Geosystems TPS700 GPS receiver)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... Leica Geosystems Inc., Torrance, Calif., introduced via its TPS700 Performance Series total stations two models that feature automatic target recognition (ATR): TC700auto and TCR700auto reflectorless total stations. Previously offered only on...

Navitrak International Corp. (Hardware).(Navitrak International Digital Navigation Assistant handheld GPS)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... Navitrak International Corp., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, introduced the Digital Navigation Assistant, a ruggedized, handheld, Global Positioning System (GPS)-based moving-map display unit designed for applications in areas such as search and...

Spirea AB. (Hardware).(Spirea TripleTraC wireless local-area network chip)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... Spirea AB, Kista, Sweden, introduced TripleTraC, a dual-band 5GHz/2.4GHz wireless local-area network chip that features 802.11a, 802.11b and the European HiperLAN2 standard on one chip. TripleTraC radio chips allow original equipment...

TeleType Co. Inc. (Hardware).(TeleType atellite Tracker GPO)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... TeleType Co. Inc., Boston, introduced Satellite Tracker, a "real-time" Global Positioning System (GPS)-based tracking device that offers complete worldwide coverage, allowing users to track vehicles, boats or persons anywhere in the world for...

Integral Systems Inc. (Miscellaneous).(Integral Systems SKYLIGHT)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... Integral Systems Inc., Lanham, Md., introduced SKYLIGHT, an "off-the-shelf" system for acquiring, processing and distributing satellite imagery. SKYLIGHT provides users with an "end-to-end" system that includes an antenna, data capture...

Natural Resources Canada. (Miscellaneous).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, released the Canadian Gravimetric Geoid Model (CGG2000) and Canadian Height Transformation Package. The result of a five-year collaboration with international, federal/ provincial agencies and academic...

TeraQuest Metrics Inc. (Miscellaneous).
February 1, 2002... TeraQuest Metrics Inc., Austin, announced the availability of Practical Software Measurement: Objective Information for Decision Makers, a guide that advises software managers and developers on how to schedule, allocate resources, and determine...

Open GIS Consortium Inc. (Business News).(Information & Technology Association to work together)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Open GIS Consortium Inc. (OGC), Wayland, Mass., and the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at working together to accomplish common objectives. In particular, the organizations...

Orbital Sciences Corp. (Business News).(Q3 2001 financial results)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Orbital Sciences Corp., Dulles, Va., released third-quarter 2001 financial results, including a net income of $5.6 million ($0.15 per share), compared with a net loss of $121.3 million ($3.23 per share) for the same period last year. In...

Paragon Imaging Inc. (Business News).(licensing agreement with Galileo Group to create SpotLire software)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Paragon Imaging Inc., Woburn, Mass., agreed to integrate Galileo Croup Inc.'s proprietary spectral detection algorithms (patent pending) with its image exploitation tools to create SpotLire, a multi/hyperspectral software application for the...

PCI Geomatics. (Business News).(Remote Sensing Laboratory of the National Aerospace Technology Institute division of Spanish Ministry of Defense to use their product)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... PCI Geomatics, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, announced the Spain-based Remote Sensing Laboratory of the National Aerospace Technology Institute (INTA), a division within the Spanish Ministry of Defense, will use PCI Geomatics' Geomatica...

PowerLOC Technologies Inc. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... PowerLOC Technologies Inc., Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, named GPS&MORE Ltd. of Israel as a licensee of its Destinator Global Positioning System (GPS)-based navigation system, and Radio Shack Canada placed an initial order for Destinator...

Quova Inc. (Business News).(Visa International to use GeoPoint service)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Quova Inc., Redwood City, Calif., announced Visa International agreed to use Quova's GeoPoint service to benefit Visa and its member banks, partners and merchants. The companies will work together to identify "e-commerce," marketing and...

RADARSAT International (RSI). (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... RADARSAT International (RSI), Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, delivered a detailed digital elevation model of northern Colombia to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency. The 777,152-square-kilometer model maps the Colombian landscape and...

The Schneider Corp. (Business News).(expands CIS services)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Schneider Corp., Indianapolis, expanded its CIS services to include offerings for gas, rural electric, and municipal gas and electric distribution mapping.

Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI). (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), Moun View, Calif., installed the world's first 1,024-proccor SGI Origin 3800 single-system image supercomputer at NASA's Ames Research Center and a separate 512-processor SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer at NASA's...

The Sidwell Co. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Sidwell Co., St. Charles, Ill., won contracts from Kendall County, Ill., to provide GIS data structuring of the county's existing cadastral mapping system and countywide farmland assessment services on all agricultural parcels; Marshall...

SignalSoft Corp. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... SignalSoft Corp., Boulder, Colo,, announced it was elected to the management board of the Location Interoperability Forum Ltd., which was founded by Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia in 2000 to advance the worldwide deployment of location-based...

Space Imaging. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Space Imaging, Thornton, Colo., became a master reseller of Navigation Technologies Corp. (NTC) NAVITECH NAVSTREETS data, and NTC became a reseller of Space Imaging's data products. Also, Space Imaging and Silicon Graphics Inc. signed a...

Spatial Corp. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Spatial Corp., Westminster, Colo., and Tech Soft America introduced the OpenHSF Initiative and the first publication of the HSF specification, which aims to provide an open visualization file format that meets the needs of the visualization...

Syncline Inc. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Syncline Inc., Boston, was selected by the Open GIS Consortium Inc. (OGC) Web Services Initiative sponsors to help develop and test software standards for World Wide Web-based applications that have a geographic component. Syncline will work...

Tele Atlas North America Inc. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Tele Atlas North America Inc., Menlo Park, Calif., introduced a Value Added Partner Program that offers geospatial industries enhanced technical, sales and marketing support combined with financial incentives. Also, Tele Atlas North America...

Trimble Navigation Ltd. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Trimble Navigation Ltd., Sunnyvale, Calif., announced subsidiary Trimble Information Services Inc. (TIS) and Volkswagen subsidiary gedas Mexico agreed to launch a pilot program to provide new telematics services in Mexico. The program will...

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Reston, Va., and Florida International University (FLU) partnered to create TerraFly, an Internet technology that allows users to interactively "fly" over Earth's surface and explore spatial data such as aerial...

VARGIS LLC. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... VARGIS LLC, Herodon, Va., received a "Top Performer" award from the U.S. Geological Survey for "outstanding quality and timely delivery" of Digital Orthophotoquads (DOQs) under the Michigan Innovative Partnership Agreement, for which VARGIS...

Vexcel Corp. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Vexcel Corp., Boulder, Cola., won a contract from the University of Miami (with support from the U.S. Department of Defense and NASA) to build the Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing, a "real-time" commercial industry...

Webraska. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Webraska, Longueil, France, a worldwide provider of wireless navigation services and technologies, and AirFlash Inc., a provider of location-based technologies and services for network operators and wireless service providers, merged to create...

Wherify Wireless Inc. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Wherify Wireless Inc., Redwood Shores, Calif., announced its Wherify Global Positioning System (GPS) Personal Location product won the "Best Product Hardware" and "Best New Technology" awards at the "2001 Best of RetailVision Awards." The...

Woolpert LLP. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Woolpert LLP, Dayton, Ohio, announced its surveying/Global Positioning System (GPS) group won a contract from the Ohio Geographically Referenced Information Program, a group within the Ohio Department of Administrative Services division, to...

Z/I Imaging Corp. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Z/I Imaging Corp., Huntsville, Ala., and Optech Inc. agreed to market and further develop airborne laser mapping technology. Z/I Imaging will reference-sell Optech's Airborne Laser Terrain Mapper, and Optech will sell Z/I Imaging's software...

Visual nature studio. (Quick-Take Reviews).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... By W. Fredrick Limp, director, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, 12 Ozark Hall, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701; e-mail: fred@cast.uark.edu. Price: $2,475. Requirements: Microsoft Windows 9x/NT 4/2000, 128MB RAM...

It's still all about the data. (Geobusiness Watch).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... In the midst of the last decade's revolutionary technology changes, it's interesting to see just how little the bottom-line enterprise objectives for geotechnology have changed. That's particularly true when it comes to the enterprise....

Applied Geographies Inc. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Applied Geographies Inc. (AGI), Boston, was selected by the State of Maine Office of Planning and Office of GIS to lead a team to study and design a cost-effective statewide GIS.

Boeing Autometric Co. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Boeing Autometric Co., Springfield, Va., announced it has successfully passed the critical design phase of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) contract for prototype production processing development from the National Imagery and...

Cquay Inc. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Cquay Inc., Calgary, Alberta, Canada, completed a Performance and Scalability Initiative that validates the scalability of its Common Ground Service Platform. To support online location intelligence services and the anticipated delivery of 300...

Descartes Systems Group Inc. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Descartes Systems Group Inc., Waterlco, Ontario, Canada, released its wireless routing, scheduling and dispatch products in Europe. The products currently are available in all European countries that support global system for mobile...

EarthScan Network Inc. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... EarthScan Network Inc., Albuquerque, N.M., announced WhiteStar Corp. joined the ImageNetwork, an expanding list of EarthScan-hosted "e-commerce" storefronts and intranets.

ERDAS Inc. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... ERDAS Inc., Atlanta, announced its ERDAS IMAGINE product was selected by the Aurora, Neb.-based conservation organization Prairie Plains Resource Institute to further ongoing prairie restoration, conservation, education and community...

ESRI Canada. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... ESRI Canada, Toronto, won a contract from the city of Saskatcon, Saskatchewan, Canada, to implement an enterprise GIS.

ESRI Inc. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... ESRI Inc., Redlands, Calif., announced ESRI Business Partner RPM Consulting agreed to continue to sell and support ESRI's Atlas GIS product. Also, RPM is developing an extension to ESRI's ArcView 8.1 product that incorporates the Atlas GIS...

IBM Corp. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... IBM Corp., White Plains, N.Y., and Microsoft Corp. introduced the [World Wide] Web Services Inspection (WS-Inspection) specification, which defines how an application can discover an Extensible Markup Language Web service description on a Web...

ImageLinks Inc. (Business News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... ImageLinks Inc., Melbourne, Fla., placed 283rd on the 2001 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on five-year percentage revenue growth from...