Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Let's say you've bought several software products from your geospatial software provider and you find yourself using two or three more than any other. In fact, one product you thought you were going to use just sits on the shelf. If this scenario fits you or your company, you're stuck, right?...

Modeling and simulated environments using CAD software have been done for a long time. Three-dimensional viewing of proposed urban projects is not necessarily new either. In the era of viewing building models in Google Earth, it's now expected. However, the emergence of linking precision 2D map...

Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports the chief designer or Russia’s GLONASS GNSS, Yury Urlichich, was fired. It seems the firing relates to recent fraud allegation that came to light earlier this month of GLONASS officials stealing 6.5 billion rubles ($200 million) of program funds. - UPI...

At the BE Inspired Conference (#BeIn2012) this week in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley (pictured at right) opened the media day by blitzing analysts and editors with a barrage of statistics about the market, software successes, economic reality and the introduction of...

IHS Energy Editorial API: The service provides daily updated information about markets for petroleum and other energy sources. It delivers news and analysis from the provider's industry experts covering activities in oil and gas, as well as electrical power generation and renewable energy and...

Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), who narrowly lost his 2008 bid for reelection against Democrat Al Franken, works as a lobbyist at the firm Hogan Lovells. His new duties, per a disclosure form, include lobbying to "expand access to broadband technology by supporting efforts of...

Bill Meehan Esri’s director of utility solutions responded to my query regarding more data about the sample used in the Esri study: Q: What professionals/organizations were surveyed (were they all Esri users? Users of any GIS tech? Who?) A Respondents were not necessarily Esri users. The...

OpenSignal (also known as OpenSignalMaps) is now offering an API to its data on mobile signal strength created from a "sniffer app" that runs on Android phones. The API is for its NetworkRank product. It can recommend the best network in any location. This could be rolled into things like...

On Friday LightSquared proposed to the FCC that it use the spectrum currently shared by instruments such as weather balloons instead of the bands it currently owns.  The company would not use the spectrum it owns which the FCC found interferes with GPS. The idea it to get the company back in the...

On Monday, the [NY's US] senator [Schumer] called for a federal investigation into the problem [of truckers using sat nav designed for cars that do not take into account truck height] and for the U.S. Department of Transportation to come up with GPS standards that prevent the devices from...