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Trimble Makes Another Agriculture-Related Acquisition

Dec 4, 2008, Git4You.com:

Trimble has acquired the assets of privately-held, Oelwein, Iowa-based Rawson Control Systems, which manufactures hydraulic and electronic controls for the agriculture equipment industry, including variable rate planter drives and GPS-based controllers, variable rate fertilizer controllers, mechanical remote electric control valves and speed reducers.

Rawson's products work in conjunction with the Trimble FieldManager Display, which monitors and controls up to four inputs such as seed, fertilizer and crop protection. The controllers can be operated either automatically by via GPS or manually, both of which are supported by Trimble's portfolio of assisted steering or manual guidance products, according to the company.

Dec 10, 2008 Git4You.com:

Intuicom Inc. has released the RTK Bridge-C, which is designed to provide networked real-time kinematic (RTK) corrections to radio-based GPS applications, as opposed to using a cellular modem for correction data.

The RTK Bridge-C uses a cellular modem to get access to networked GPS connections, but then rebroadcasts the corrections through either an internal radio or any third-party external radio, pushing corrections to construction sites, mines, farms, and project sites, according to the company. The RTK Bridge-C is the follow-on to the company's RTK Bridge-E, which provides radio access to network corrections over Ethernet lines.

Dec 19, 2008, Git4You.com:

Trimble (Sunnyvale, California) has announced the keynote speakers for its International User Conference—Trimble Dimensions 2009. The conference, which will be held February 23-25, 2009 at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, focuses on applying technology to meet the daily needs faced by surveying, engineering, construction, mapping, Geographic Information System (GIS), geospatial, and mobile resource management professionals.

Dec 16, 2008, Git4You.com:

Magellan has announced new PC software called Real Time Data Server (RTDS) that offers land surveying companies the opportunity to use GNSS equipment to build their own direct IP RTK corrections server.

The RTDS software will collect corrections sent by a GNSS base station and act as a gateway to make correction data available to any rover that connects to the software. RTDS allows GPRS communication between one base and multiple rovers. The base can be a permanent base (with a direct/local connection to the RTDS) or a roaming base (connected to RTDS through GPRS).

Trimble Acquires KOREC Software Assets

Dec 22, 2008, Git4You.com

Trimble (Sunnyvale, California) announced December 19 that it has acquired the FastMap and GeoSite software assets from KOREC, a privately held Trimble distributor serving the United Kingdom and Ireland. The acquisition, which includes software development, professional services and business development teams, will allow Trimble to expand its Mapping and Geographic Information System (GIS) solutions to provide optimized software and professional services in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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