iSeekPlant launches Australia’s first plant hire app

The hugely successful plant hire industry aggregator, iSeekplant, has released Australia’s first Plant Hire phone application, allowing the user to hire plant directly from their iPhone or iPad from any location. It’s the first of its kind in Australia, and a massive win for the industry. The Application draws its records from the thousands of items of plant for hire on iSeekplant.com.au, listed by plant hire companies from all over Australia. With simplified usability, it’s been designed for project managers who have urgent plant hire requirements onsite. The company built the application, because it knows how incredibly mobile its audience is. “25% of our monthly website customer traffic is coming from smartphones, principally iPhones and iPads. We wanted

Topcon’s Ray O’Connor receives Geospatial Leadership Award

The award was presented by Geospatial World magazine during its annual Geospatial World Forum conference and leadership awards ceremony in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. O’Connor was recognised “as the champion of surveying and positioning technologies in the world, having served in this industry for more than two decades.  He has transformed Topcon into an acknowledged market leader in surveying technologies related to civil engineering, agricultural, mapping, and measurement applications.” In addition to receiving the award, O’Connor was a speaker at the conference and Topcon executives also participated in applications and technology workshops. About his selection as Geospatial Business Leader of the Year, O’Connor said, “To be selected by the leaders and visionaries of the industries we serve is an