Daily technology news - 30-Jan-2007

NAVTEQ Appoints New Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (Mobile Electronics)Chicago â?? NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital maps for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, has brought aboard Amreesh Modi as senior vice president and chief technology officer.

PR Newswire Summary of Technology Copy, Jan. 29, 2007 (SYS-CON Media)Following is a summary of high technology news releases transmitted today by PR Newswire. The full text of these releases is available at the PR Newswire for Journalists, http://media.prnewswire.com/.

KBR, SK Agree to Develop Technology (AP via Yahoo! Finance) KBR Inc., the engineering, construction and services arm of Halliburton Inc., said Monday it agreed to develop a new technology for olefins production with Korean petrochemical company SK Corp.

Clean-environment technology leading the way back for Silicon Valley (International Herald Tribune)Investment in clean technology ? from solar panels and hybrid cars to the use of nanotechnology to solve environmental problems ? went from $34 million in the first quarter of 2006 to $290 million in the third quarter.

Technology Teacher Courses Scrapped (RedNova)By HANN, Arwen The scrapping of technology courses at Canterbury University's College of Education this year will add to the desperate shortage of technology teachers, union leaders say.

Investcorp Technology Partners to Realize Its Investment in Softek Storage Solutions in Sale to IBM (SYS-CON Media)Investcorp Technology Partners, the technology investment group of global alternative asset management firm Investcorp , today said that it has agreed to sell its stake in Softek Storage Solutions, a company offering a portfolio of data migration, data replication and disaster recovery software products, to IBM . The acquisition of Softek by IBM is anticipated to close during the first quarter of ...

Drug Safety Technology Wins Innovation Of The Year Award (Medical News Today)Frost & Sullivan has awarded the COMPAS software technology platform its 2006 North America Technology Innovation of the Year Award in the field of Cardiac Safety Analytics. The software was created at the University of Rochester Medical Center and is being commercially developed by iCardiac Technologies, a Rochester, New York-based company. [click link for full article]

Robotic garage to open in N.Y.; technology iffy (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)NEW YORK - Would you trust a robot to park your car? The question will confront New Yorkers in February as the city's first robotic parking opens in Chinatown. The technology has had a good track record overseas, but the only other public robotic garage in the United States has been troublesome, dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical glitches. Yet the developers of the Chinatown ...

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