Cloud Computing

Each year Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg picks out 10 events, ideas, themes, products, etc. that stood out over the preceding 12 months.

I learned that NORAD Santa is changing map platform providers via Pocket Lint and confirmed it in the Norad Santa partners list. Google is not listed but Microsoft, Bing Maps and Azure are! There's also a Windows Phone app this year. Why the change? The Seattle Times reports that while...

In a paper titled, "Energy Efficient GPS Sensing with Cloud Offloading", Microsoft researchers propose a potential solution to this battery power and size dilemma. This paper describes cloud-offloaded GPS (CO-GPS), an innovative way to perform location sensing by using tiny embedded devices...

There was some irony in the fact that nearly every presentation by Autodesk executives at Autodesk University (AU) this year mentioned the company's migration of its software solutions to a cloud computing environment but its major sponsors were all hardware vendors. Lenovo, HP, Intel and Dell...

During a press conference at Autodesk Univeristy in Las Vegas, Autodesk CEO Carl Bass reaffirmed what he has said for some time that "I do believe that everything is moving to the cloud." Asked to clarify what he meant, he said that "There are a lot of applications that will [still] be done on...

If there was one way to summarize the first day of presentations at Autodesk University it was to emphasize "how to reduce cycle time." That is, how can designers of whatever ... bridges, roads, cars, robots … go from design to build in less time. The vision presented by Autodesk is one of taking...

"Taking what's on the desktop and making accessible in the cloud" was the message heard today repeatedly at press day presentations by executives from Autodesk at this year's Autodesk University in Las Vegas. Autodesk's Andrew Anagnost, the senior vice president for Industry Strategy &...

At the Autodesk University Media/Press Day in Las Vegas, chief financial officer Mark Hawkins laid out the numbers justifying why his company is racing to provide applications for the consumer marketplace: Ninety-five (95) million people comprise the potential addressable consumer market for...

At the media/press day at Autodesk University 2012, held this year in Las Vegas, AEC Conceptual Design Manager Matt Jezyk provide a preview of Autodesk FormIt, a freely downloadable app designed to bridge the gap between mobile computing and building information modeling (BIM) and...

This week we get the lowdown on all of Nokia's recent mapping announcements from Jim Reid, president of ADCi, a long time Nokia partner.