Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Now that Beidou, China's own GNSS, is mature and field tests of its use in commercial vehicles is complete, officials are requiring certain livery vehicles to remove existing GNSS devices that tap into the U.S. GPS or other constellations and use Beidou exclusively. The change is required at the...

Geography key to making friends: (1) proximity; (2) repeated, unplanned interactions; (3) setting that lowers guard - New York Times Advertise your business on EveryBlock, Chicago only for now. @UrbanLaunchpad is putting riders with GPS on Dhaka busses to map routes.  Farhad Manjoo...

Until Wednesday only the Chinese government and military had access to the interface to use the signal from the Beidou constellation. Then the interface was made public. To be technical: an official version of the complete interface control document [pdf] (ICD) for the nation’s BeiDou...

Many folks know about the free shuttles for those workers who want to live in San Francisco while working at places like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, eBay and Apple out in the suburbs. . It's another perk. I recently spoke to a GISer who was very impressed by Google's transport system. The details of...

Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN) today announced that effective January 1, 2013  the board of directors has appointed Clifton Pemble to the position of president and CEO, succeeding co-founder, Dr. Min Kao.   Pemble, who joined Garmin in 1989 as one of the company’s first engineers, has been serving...

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...

This came to me via Len Bundra, the IT/GIS Director for the Tom's River, New Jersey Municipal Utilitiy Authority (TRMUA): TRMUA's GIS Website has been Updated to included latest Hurricane Sandy imagery from the NOAA Remote Sensing Division: ….The Imagery is available for the barrier island...

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...

The FCC is seeking comment on LightSquared's proposal to share spectrum for weather balloons and permanently relinquish its 10 MHz of spectrum that is directly adjacent to the frequencies used by GPS receivers. Petitions to deny LightSquared's proposal are due Dec. 17, oppositions are due Jan....

Apps for Ghent API: The service provided by the city of Ghent in Belgium encourages open data sharing by companies and other organizations It seeks to make available operating information about a business such as location, hours of operation, product offerings, and prices. The service...