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Trimble announced today it has acquired privately-held Crain Enterprises, Inc. of Mound City, Illinois, in an all-cash transaction. Crain is a manufacturer of accessories for the geomatics, surveying, mapping, and construction industries. Financial terms were not disclosed.

DMTI Spatial (DMTI), provider of Location Intelligence, has announced the availability of DevZone, a software development platform for developers interested in creating innovative Location Intelligence applications. Leveraging DMTI’s breakthrough Location Hub platform, DevZone’s web portal gives users access to a myriad of services including online resources for developers, such as geocoding services, address recognition services, online demonstrations, forums and wiki-styled documentation.

Septentrio, Inc., the North American division of Septentrio Satellite Navigation nv, manufacturer of high precision GNSS products for commercial, aerospace, and industrial applications headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, announced today that Western Latitudes, a wholly owned subsidiary of Meridian 104, Inc., has become the latest addition to their expanding North American distribution network.

Septentrio, a manufacturer of high precision GNSS products for commercial, aerospace, and industrial applications headquartered in Leuven, Belgium announced today that it has signed an agreement with Navigation Solutions Europe B.V. for distribution of Septentrio products in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

DMTI Spatial (DMTI), provider of Location Intelligence, today announced the deployment of an integrated demand management platform by the Eloqua Corporation, the leading supplier of automated demand generation software for business-to-business marketers. The adoption of Eloqua's Conversion Suite platform will refine DMTI’s execution, automation and measurement of multi-channel business-to-business marketing programs. This integration enables DMTI to deploy 'closed-loop' marketing processes that improve marketing effectiveness, visibility and accountability to the customer’s they serve.

The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) announced that its Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference (formerly annual conference) will feature 111 sessions focused on 13 infrastructure-related tracks and the Geospatial Dimensions of Emergency Response Symposium. The event is slated for March 9-12, 2008, at the Washington State Trade & Convention Center in Seattle, Washington.

TopoSys is very pleased to announce the appointment of Svein G. Vatslid to the position of Managing Director of TopoSys effective 1st January 2008.

Infoterra Ltd has been awarded a framework agreement under OGCbuying.solutions' Catalist Geographical Information Services and Solutions framework (GISS), an arrangement that provides a streamlined procurement route for public sector bodies. Under the new Catalist GISS framework, Infoterra has been awarded framework agreements in the GI Mapping Services and GI data supply solutions categories.

Radius Studio is an enterprise data integration and quality assessment tool that makes comprehensive use of the Oracle technology stack. It provides a data certification platform that ensures the quality and consistency of spatial data located in either Oracle 9i / 10g Databases or in vector file formats accessed via Feature Data Objects (FDO). This solution is delivered in a J2EE architecture that offers web access through the Oracle 10g Application Server (or JBoss v4.0.4 GA) and makes effective use of Oracle MapViewer.