Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Detectors installed in turnpike toll booths could help locate Global Positioning System jammers, a Homeland Security Department official told a GPS conference Tuesday. ...   One way to detect jammers faster is to install sensors on toll booths and pair them with camera systems to...

APB has covered the crowdsourcing project to map cell signal quality in the past. Now news it's turning into something more. Crowdsourced mobile network measurement startup OpenSignal has raised a $1.3 million seed round from Qualcomm Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Passion...

If you live in the UK you can participate in the Wonka-inspired contest that will deliver L10,000 to each of six people who find special Nestle bars. They are equipped with GPS and the promise is that the company will find you within 24 hours to turn over your prize. The name, as several...

The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subpanel on Oversight on Friday will have a look at how the FCC handled the LightSquared effort to build out terrestrial Wi-Fi. Republicans have questioned how the company got as far as it did before the government pretty much shut the plan down due to...

You may have read that headline in a press release at Directions Magazine or elsewhere on the Web. The related sentence in the text reads: The proof is in a new report from Pike Research. Findings indicate that spending on GIS services, software and tools will increase steadily over the next...

Ergon Energy delivers electricity in Queensland, Australia. It's "experimenting with open source gaming engines and physics models in an effort to capitalise on a massive geospatial data set from its ongoing laser-mapping project." That project, called ROAMES, is 10% done in its quest to...

Doug Smith will be LightSquared's new chairman and CEO. He takes the position from his previous role as co-chief operating officer and chief network officer. He also worked for Clearwire and Sprint Nextel. Despite declaring bankruptcy Smith made it clear the company is still seeking a solution to...

Raleigh, N.C.-based EREF also has come up with a way to take that customized data and determine any correlations that might explain why a recycling program isn’t doing so well in a particular area, the organization said in a news release. EREF’s method uses new tracking techniques and...

A key Pacific Gas and Electric Co. gas engineer testified that he repeatedly told his bosses the company was relying on flawed data to vouch for the safety of its gas transmission lines before the San Bruno disaster, but that the utility took no steps to fix the problem. In a civil...

In a piece in GITA's News Hub, Bob Samborski, Executive Director, lays out the near future of the organization. The transition of GITA to an all volunteer organization officially begins at the close of business Friday, June 29, 2012. The following Monday, the association will enter a new...