Trimble’s smart antenna subscription for civil and building construction contractors
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Trimble’s smart antenna subscription for civil and building construction contractors

Technology tamfitronics Trimbles smart antenna subscription for civil and building construction contractors By Heavy Equipment Guide Staff July 19, 2024 Trimble's DA2 GNSS smart antenna is now available globally for both civil and building construction applications through Trimble's subscription program. Trimble's subscription model provides contractors access to construction technology at a lower upfront cost.Combined with Trimble Siteworks or Trimble FieldLink software, the DA2 can perform construction surveying tasks and site supervision for civil and building construction. For civil contractors, this includes pole-mount for high-accuracy grade checking, truck-mount for site supervision, and ATV-mount for progress monitoring, volume calculations, site topos, verifying as-builts, road centrelines, and more. For building contractors, this includes underground utility layout, building foundation set out, easy construction quality assurance, and more.The DA2 leverages the Trimble ProPoint GNSS engine...
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Massive IT Outage Impacts Gambling Operators across the Globe
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Massive IT Outage Impacts Gambling Operators across the Globe

Technology tamfitronics A number of industries were affected by a global technical issue on Friday. The tech outage impacted banks, hospitals, airlines and even the gambling sector.Media reports confirmed that the technological outage follows an update by CrowdStrike that resulted in issues for Microsoft users. The massive technology problem caused issues for companies across Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.A recently released report by Just Horse Racing suggests that the Microsoft outage affected TAB, Sky Racingas well as Sportsbet. Currently, TAB and the Flutter-owned Sportsbet hold more than 70% of the betting market in Australia.Besides Australia, the IT disruption reportedly impacted companies across multiple sectors in New Zealandas well as India and Japan.A statement released by Sportsbet via X, formerly Twitter, acknowledged the technical issues. “Like many organizations, global 3rd party technical issues are disrupting...
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PM directs for early completion of Islamabad Technology Park
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PM directs for early completion of Islamabad Technology Park

Technology tamfitronics ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday directed the project team of Islamabad Technology Park and the Information Technology Ministry to complete the project within current calendar year instead of the scheduled completion date of June 2025.The prime minister, during his visit to the under-construction site of the country’s largest Islamabad Technology Park, said that the project was launched in 2022 during the coalition government of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) and the contract was awarded to a South Korean company.He said the project was being completed at a cost of Rs 25 billion out of which $70 million (soft loan) was being provided by the South Korean government.“Soon after taking charge of my office, I issued directions to continue work on the project round the clock,” he said adding that he as...
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