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The Aging Workforce, The Economic Downturn, and Generational Software

9 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

I just came across an interesting article by Jeffrey Joerres on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal Europe (April 9, 2009) entitled Aging Your Work Force. The article is about the challenge of […]

Japan Announces Additional Stimulus of 10 Trillion Yen

8 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

Accoding to the BBC Japan has announced another stimulus of more than 10 trillion yen (about $100 billion). This is in addition to the 12 trillion yen stimulus spending that has already been allocated. In total this […]

Autodesk Announces the Release of AutoCAD Map 3D 2010

8 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

You can see a detailed list of what’s new in AutoCAD Map 3D 2010. Some of the big things are support for overlays and the new Workflow Framework both of which Justin Lokitz blogged about […]

Infrastructure Spending in the Canadian 2009 Stimulus Budget

8 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

ReNew Canada has a listing of some of the largest projects funded under the 2009 federal stimulus budget. Also there is a summary of the list of 1000 “shovel-ready” projects, in total worth an estimated […]

Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the Economic Downturn

7 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

There’s a very interesting article The BIM Boom that outlines some of the business reasons why engineers, architects, and contractors are increasingly using BIM and how the economic downturn is affecting the adoption of BIM. […]

Has IBM Pulled Offer for Sun ?

7 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

According to reports, IBM has withdrawn its offer for Sun.

Autodesk Assistance Program for Unemployed Designers, Engineers, and Architects in All Industries

6 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

Autodesk has announced the Autodesk Assistance Program which will offer free student software term licenses, free online training, reduced cost classroom training, and a path to certification for unemployed designers, engineers, and architects in all […]

Autodesk Announces AutoCAD Exchange

6 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

Autodesk has announced AutoCAD Exchange, an online site for AutoCAD users. It is designed to allow AutoCAD users to connect with each other and with industry specialists. It provides access to CAD experts, AutoCAD tips, CAD […]

Stimulus Spending in the G-20

5 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

There are two reports on stimulus spending in the G-20 by Eswar Prasad and Isaac Sorkin of the Brookings Institution entitled Understanding the G-20 Economic Stimulus Plans and Assessing the G-20 Stimulus Plans: A Deeper Look . The reports include […]

Economic Effects of Global Climate Change: Stimulus Green Funding

4 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

The most widely known report on the economic effects of global climate change is the The Economics of Climate Change, The Stern Review by Nicolas Stern. Its conclusions were that If climate change continues unabated, […]

IBM Survey Finds that a Majority of Consumers Are Willing to Pay More for Cleaner Energy

3 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

In 2007 IBM surveyed 1,900 households in six countries to “assess consumer behavior and trends in energy consumption and expectations for utility companies.” The survey found that a majority of consumers in these nations are […]

Survey Shows Large Majority of Americans Support Climate Change and Renewable Energy Policies Even If They Cost More

3 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

According to a recent US survey conducted by researchers at George Mason and Yale Universities of 2,164 Americans, a large majorities of respondents support climate change and renewable energy policies including “92 percent supported more […]

EU Economic Recovery Plan Allocates €5 billion for Energy

3 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

According to the EWEA the energy committee (ITRE) of the European Parliament has voted on the Energy Recovery Plan which includes €3.98 billion for energy projects through 2010, including a new power supergrid. €565 million is […]

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End of an Era II: IBM Acquiring Sun ?

3 April 2009 GoGeomatics Canada

There are new reports that IBM is closer to acquiring Sun Microsystems. An interesting thought is that this acquisition would give IBM MySQL, by far the most popular open source RDBMS, to add to […]

Testers Needed for New Mapguide Open Source Installer

2 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

MapGuide Open Source 2.1 is just around the corner. Jackie Ng, Jason Birch and Kenneth Skovhede have developed a new wix-based installer that they need some help with testing. They would like you to download […]

G-20 Announces US$5 Trillion Stimulus To Be Delivered by End of 2010

2 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

The G-20 has announced a $5 trillion stimulus package to be delivered by the end of 2010. They also agreed on more regulation of financial institutions. The G-20 is comprised of 19 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, […]

Green Stimulus Program In China

2 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

As reported in Barron’s of the approximately US$600 billion that China is planning to spend as part of its economic stimulus program, US$30 billion or about 5% of the stimulus could be allocated to renewable […]

Economic Stimulus in the G-20

2 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

There is an interesting report in the Globe and Mail showing the fiscal stimulus plans of selected G-20 countries as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP). In terms of absolute amount, the US […]

Firefox3 Market Share Passes IE7 in Europe

1 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

According to the Web analytics firm StatCounter as reported on ars technica, Firefox 3 market share has surpassed IE7 in Europe. According to Market Share, in March 2009 Firefox exceeded 22% worldwide market share. As reported in Computerworld, gains […]

First Energy to Repower Plant for Biomass Electricity Generation

1 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

There is a very interesting announcement from First Energy , the country’s fifth largest investor owned utility. First Energy will convert one of its coal-burning power generator plants, originally built in the 1940’s, to biomass, […]