We can say that petroleum exploration is a technology intensive business and one of the leading providers of the seismic technology is www.3dgeo.com. An agency that supplies contractors with seismic processing systems in the form of model building and wave equation migration that is sixty times faster than any other technology.
Archive for September, 2007
Shenzhen or the IT City
Law enforcement is the back-bone of any society and another city that offers an example of how technology can be used in municpal administration is the city of Shenzhen. Because the city has over 17 000 private electronic systems and 20 000 police cameras. Senior police officers carry GPS equipment to enable them monitor the movement of officers within the city. Residents carry identity cards with medical and professional information. And the partners in this IT-based city administration are IBM-Lenovo, CISCO, HD, Dell, China Public security Technology and private equity firms.
Source : IHT August 13, 2007
Fedex-the technology behind parcels delivery
This is the scenario, the delivery of 6 million parcels in many capitals of the world and at the right place and at the right time. You will tell me that this is simply a case of storage, parcel bar coding and automatic transportation offered by an application such as the airline control programme.
But right now, the technology beneath the delivery of fedex parcels all over the world is the famous “inventory management system,” that enables both fedex and the package sender, to trace the parcel from one point to the other or what we call the track-and-trace technology.
Source : FT Digital Business, July 11 2007
RFID and bike rental points
The technique revolves around a subscription and a pay-as-you go bike rental service and the technology is RFID- radio frenquency identification. That enables the bike service provider to monitor the status of every bike with the aid of its number, it status report and to evaluate the defect on every part of the bike. To make a bike available in any of the 1 400 rental points, members just have to do their confidential code and swipe their cards against a terminal.
Technology and the work of the Paris City Council
Some services of the Paris City Council such as the request for birth certificates and part of the library services are available online. Alize, EPM and GO are the software used to run the financial, public tenders and construction projects. Firefox is fast becoming the most popular web browser on the agecny 20 000 workstations. For moment, the work of the council runs on 400 Linux servers and a decision on whether to opt for the open source operating system will be taken next year.
