Adena at All Points Blog points out the rather exaggerated reports in the UK computing press about the upcoming lanuch of Giove-A a micro-satellite developed in Guildford. Rather than be used my mobile phone users to locate cinema listings !!! Giove-A has just one important job to do.. Giove (Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element)-A is designed …
Today sees the creation of the MapServer Foundation a group to support the ongoing development of the Minnesota MapServer project with the backing on Autodesk and DM Solutions. This seems to be the first time one of the “big” traditional GIS vendors has jumped onboard with Open-source, the replacement for Autodesk’s MapGuide will be “MapServer …
Silicon.com reports that NTT DoCoMO have introduced a new “child friendly’ phone for use with their Imadoco service, one of the first child tracking services introduced about five years ago. There seems to be a lot of comments about the potential civil liberty issues of tracking children, and in particular with the new SA800i phone …
Silicon.com reports that Google has just opened it’s second London Office to concentrate on the development of mobile applications – although Google claim to have no plans to be developing location based services I seen this as clear evidence of LBS 2.0 moving forward. LBS 2.0 I see as a range of applications where location …
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I had one of my occasional looks through the logs of edparsons.com this evening and found that for the first half of this month for the first time ever Firefox – OK Mozilla/5.0 was a more popular browser than Internet Explorer just.. 25.16% Mozilla/5.0 25.10% MSIE 6. Interesting after this most user agents where either …
As a ex-Autodesk employee, I was very interested to watch co-founder of Autodesk Dan Drake describe the development of the first version of AutoCAD on NerdTV, a PBS show hosted by Silicon Valley guru Robert X Cringley and available to download as an mpeg. Other interviews on NerdTV include Tim O’Reilly, Dave Winer and Andy …
The Terrafuture podcasts are now all available on iTunes if you need the individual mp3 links just shout. There seems to be a bug with the artwork on the podcast description at the moment, but I hope to get that sorted in the next 24 hours. Written and submitted from the Corrus Hotel, Bristol, using …
The apple.com homepage remembers Rosa Louise Parks.
Looks like a blackberry, runs like a blackberry but it’s a Nokia. In the stores next year the E61 has some impressive specs – Blackberry & ActiveSync Client – Build in Wi-Fi, as well as UMTS (3G) – Opera browser And it’s a phone ! Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
Jo Walsh reports on the Mapping Hacks website on the debate I attended at the society of cartographers conference on public access to data, and comments that the investments made on GPS and Photogrammetry by the OS is “viably unnecessary, easily outsourceable techno-toys.” OK Jo – why don’t you try and capture some data to …
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