May 22, 2009

Engadget Nearly 500 students and faculty at Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan will receive free iPhones as part of the school's new Mobile & Net Society Education and Training program. The trial, which is set to begin this fall, will use the iPhone's built in GPS function to determine if the students are present, and use that infor (Read More)

May 24, 2009

Gizmodo Simply put, the Palm Pre is the most hyped phone since the original iPhone. It's coming out on in two weeks, on June 6. Here's everything we know—we'll update this as more info comes in. PALM PRE LAUNCH When and where can I buy It? June 6, and you can buy it at Sprint Stores, Best Buy or Radio Shack. Sprint Premier customer (Read More)

May 28, 2009

Engadget Heard any good iPhone 3.0 rumors lately? No? That's because they're all here in this tidy little roundup. The latest (pictured above) is a purported top-facing bezel frame for the "Apple iPhone 3Gen 2009." Besides being black unlike the chrome edge of the iPhone 3G, iLounge and others have noticed a repositioned ear speaker (Read More)

May 28, 2009

Engadget 18 Android phones, possibly 20 on the market this year according to Andy Rubin, speaking at Google I/O. Even higher if you count all the rogue, Google App-free Android deployments that Google's not aware of. Seeing as how we're already nearly half-way through the year with just a pair of Android handsets on the market (the (Read More)

May 28, 2009

Engadget Think you'll have to wait until June 6th for all the Pre surprises to emerge? Think again. A breaking Reuters report has just dropped one of the biggest cellular bombshells of the year: Verizon Wireless, America's largest mobile operator, will soon be carrying Palm's Pre. Oh, that's not enough? No worries -- it'll also be s (Read More)

May 28, 2009

Engadget Google's big reveal at I/O? Meet Wave, the Next Big Thing from the Lars and Yen Rasmussen, makers of Google Maps. It's a very early build, meaning we won't see it anytime soon, but here's the gist: a "wave" is a chat session that enables you to send messages live, with each word being transmitted live -- no more "person X i (Read More)

May 28, 2009

Engadget The ever-quotable, perennially unkempt Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners fame indulged in a bit of self-parody in a mock-commercial screened at D7 before he and Jon Rubinstein took the stage. While incredibly entertaining, the video also acts as a bit of damage control for Roger, who infamously stated that there would be (Read More)

May 27, 2009

Engadget We knew AT&T had an HSPA upgrade in the works, and now the company has announced its plans, with initial rollout beginning later this year and reaching completion in 2011. That will overlap only slightly with LTE, which AT&T plans to put into trials in 2010 and start melting our faces in 2011. The HSPA upgrade takes the net (Read More)

May 27, 2009

Engadget Looks like Chris' hatred wasn't totally unfounded. We just got our hands on a Google Ion -- which as you can tell is a spitting image of the HTC Magic -- complete with 30 days' worth of T-Mobile service on an included SIM card. It's not a public release model, but seems fully capable. Yes, it's got Cupcake, and while the po (Read More)

May 28, 2009

SEXTANTE Una de las cosas que más se echan de menos respecto al antiguo SEXTANTE (el que funcionaba solo sobre gvSIG) es la posibilidad de capturar los puntos interactivamente desde la propia ventana de ejecución de un algoritmo. Para solucionar esto, y aunque no es exactamente lo mismo, he creado una herramienta adicional que permi (Read More)

May 28, 2009

Planet Geospatial Brady Forrest rounds up the geo news. He chooses Qualified Developer program extension to Google Maps as most important. Tim O'Reilly reports "Google Latitude available on iphone as soon as Apple releases OS 3." via Twitter - event page Also today: announcement of Google Maps API v3. (Read More)

May 28, 2009

Fuzzy Tolerance A couple of major announcements from the big web mapping API folks came out recently.First, Google has launched a Maps Data API, which is what it sounds like - you can store map data  in the cloud and retrieve it. Now you can do some basic mapping projects without having to worry about spatial data storage and bandwidth ove (Read More)

May 28, 2009

Planet Geospatial This is an extract from a personal email. It's obviously very incomplete and you are welcomed to share additions and corrections in comments below. The context is a discussion about the user-friendliness of today's open source geospatial software. Here below you'll find direct links to screenshots of popular OSS software, a (Read More)

May 28, 2009

Planet Geospatial One of my favorite KML collections from the early days of Google Earth (way back in 2005 - which is a long time in Internet time), was the real-time flight tracker by FBOweb that lets you watch incoming aircraft for several major airports in the US. I am a bit disappointed they haven't enhanced the tracker very much consi (Read More)

May 28, 2009

Planet Geospatial Bruce Ralston of the University of Tennessee has previously released several US Census TIGER data tools that I’ve posted about in the past. TGR2SHP converts TIGER files into shapefile format, while TGR2KML converts TIGER polygon files (like legislative districts and county subdivisions) into basic KML files for viewing in G (Read More)

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