February 28, 2013
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Monitoring & Testing Newsletter February 28, 2013 |
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IBM Big Data Technology Helps South Korea´s Meteorological Administration Increase Accuracy of Weather Forecasting
South Korea`s Meteorological Administration (KMA) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a project to help KMA and its affiliate, the National Meteorological Satellite Center (NMSC), tackle Big Data for better, more accurate and predictive environmental forecasting. As South Korea`s national meteorological organization, KMA`s mission is to protect citizens` lives and property from natural disasters and support economic activities sensitive to environmental conditions. However, weather forecasting is the proverbial data deluge. Every day KMA gathers more than 1.6 terabytes of meteorological ... | ||
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Edinburgh Instruments Ltd acquired by Techcomp Group Ltd
Techcomp (Group) Ltd is pleased to announce the acquisition of the majority holding of shares in Edinburgh Instruments Ltd (EI) with immediate effect. EI is the world’s leading manufacturer of Lifetime Fluorescence Spectrometers, Lasers and Gas Sensors for scientific research and industrial markets. The business is based in Livingston, Scotland and was founded in 1971 as an early pioneer of Time Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC), laser and gas sensing technologies. Commenting on the acquisition, chairman Dr Derek Shepherd F.I.C.E., C.Eng. stated, “Edinburgh Instruments has ... | ||
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