WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Jan. 22, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, former Deputy Prime Minister and Quebec Premier Jean Charest hosted the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada’s (AIAC) Vision 2025 aerospace engagement day in Winnipeg, meeting with industry leaders, government officials and educators to begin charting a course for the future of aerospace in Canada. “Global competition has never been fiercer, and we’re at a turning point where Canada must step up to compete, or risk being left behind,” said Mr. Charest. “Manitoba employs over 4,400 people in the aerospace industry and…
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Telefónica and Samsung Utilize LuxCarta’s Advanced Geodata for First 26 GHz Trial in Germany
5G Simulated on Millimeter Wave Frequencies Sophia Antipolis, France – January 22, 2019 – LuxCarta, the leading global geodata provider to the wireless ecosystem, announced today it is providing specialized geodata designed for use with RF planning simulations at high frequencies to Telefónica Deutschland and Samsung for their first 26 GHz tests in Hamburg. LuxCarta is providing 2-meter resolution City Planner building models, along with specialized vegetation layers, terrain and clutter for the Hamburg city center and another suburban test area. “5G networks that utilize mmWave frequencies require more precise…
Read MoreThe robot revolution: Five trends in 2019 and beyond
NEW YORK, N.Y., Jan. 22, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Micropsi Industries, a robotics software company, today announced trends that will affect manufacturing and industrial robots this year. “Smart industrial robots aren’t science fiction anymore,” said Ronnie Vuine, founder and CEO, Micropsi Industries, which closed a Series A round in 2018. “Equipped with more and more sensors and ever-easier to program, robots can now take on repetitive or dangerous tasks that were too hard to automate, even just two years ago. We expect this to be one of the key trends…
Read MoreTechSmith Uses Revulytics Usage Intelligence and In-App Messaging to Gain Deeper Insight into Customers and Increase Sales
Software usage analytics helps TechSmith grow Snagit and Camtasia revenue through trial conversions, upgrades, renewals, and cross-selling WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 22, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Revulytics, Inc., a leading provider of software usage analytics for on-premise software, today announced that TechSmith Corporation, a software company developing screen capture, screencasting and video editing software, has chosen Revulytics® Usage Intelligence to help its customers get more value from its Snagit and Camtasia software. TechSmith helps millions of users create high-impact videos and images, in fields ranging from marketing and training to higher…
Read MoreGeotechnical and Construction Consulting Startup Insight Group Streamlines Engineering Workflows with Agile Frameworks
Newly formed firm deploys MetaField for more efficient data tracking and automated reporting in the field MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 22, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Agile Frameworks®, the leading provider of collaborative, cloud-based corporate, field, and lab information management enabling Profitable Engineering® for the construction and engineering services sector, today announced Insight Group, a recently formed geotechnical startup, has selected its flagship MetaField® solution which provides a single application to schedule, dispatch, test, collect and assemble results to accurately deliver information to clients in real time. MetaField is a subscription-based Software-as-a-Solution (SaaS)…
Read MoreNatural Power advises NTR on 200MW Nordic wind portfolio acquisition
Leading renewable energy and infrastructure consultancy, Natural Power has advised NTR on the 200MW acquisition of operational and pre-construction onshore wind projects in Sweden and Finland that has been added to the NTR Renewable Energy Income Fund II. Total capital invested by NTR in the portfolio is expected to be in excess of €180 million. NTR acquired the portfolio projects, called Vindin, from a consortium of Swedish industrial companies. Natural Power attended all sites individually and provided pre-construction yield analysis alongside turbine inspections for the operational projects. The detailed due…
Read MoreSpire and ICEYE Join Forces to Enable Global Monitoring of Dark Vessels at Sea
Unrivaled new satellite data combats illegal fishing and transshipment in exclusive economic zones SAN FRANCISCO and HELSINKI, Finland, Jan. 22, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Spire Global Inc, the world’s largest space-to-cloud analytics company, and ICEYE, the leader in synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) technology for microsatellites, announced today a new collaborative technology to enable the detection of dark vessels and illegal activities at sea. This new service offering will give both ICEYE and Spire’s users a completely new satellite capability to assist in the detection and elimination of illegal fishing. The new…
Read MoreNGMN & Wireless Broadband Alliance join forces to address RAN convergence opportunities
Call for combined 5G and Wi-Fi network resources to address opportunities and use cases London, Frankfurt, 22 January 2019 – NGMN and Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) have published the first results of their collaboration to drive the convergence of multi-technology RANs and core networks. The joint report identifies a number of emerging opportunities and use cases that the industry can benefit from through the convergence of 3GPP’s 5G and Wi-Fi, driven by the ever-enhancing capabilities of licenced and unlicensed technologies. It also highlights the key challenges, which must first be…
Read MoreMatalan partners with SML to roll out item-level RFID across 220 stores to enhance inventory accuracy & customer service
January 2019: SML RFID, a global leader in delivering high-performance RFID solutions for the retail market, today announced that it has deployed SML’s RFID tags and SML’s Clarity® item-level solutions for Matalan across all 220 stores in the UK. SML RFID has been working with Matalan for the past 2 years and the retailer determined it needed to improve its inventory accuracy across its entire business. To facilitate this, it embarked on deploying RFID into 2 pilot stores using SML’s Clarity® software suite. The outcome was that the retailer discovered…
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