Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

I've been moderating sessions today at the Location Intelligence Conference. I'm very pleased all my speakers have stayed within their time; it makes my life so much easier. It also means we have time for a good number of questions. The session on Embedded Geospatial Capabilities in Enterprise...

The GITA website explains that its Oil and Gas Pipeline Conference, set for Oct 22-24 in Houston, has been cancelled. This would have been the 21st iteration of the event. The website text goes on to note the status of the organization is unclear: The GITA Board of Directors is meeting in...

LightSquared officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Manhattan US Bankruptcy Court today. - endgadget ----original post 5/14/12 7 am EDT --- The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) is the source of comments by those in the know that it's unlikely that LightSquared and its...

I continue to be skeptical of solutions that start with "all you have to do is install our infrastructure..." That's an uphill battle! A Spanish company is hoping to put the word on the street inside the pavement under your feet, starting this summer. Via Inteligente plans to introduce...

Willbros Group, Inc. is collaborating GeoEye for imagery and Google for data serving to deliver a cloud-based pipeline integrity management solution. This cloud-based solution will provide customers easy access to real-time pipeline information integrated with GeoEye's high-resolution,...

This past weekend, the Commercial Mobile Alert System went “live.” FEMA and the FCC are collaborating in this effort based on previously developed systems, such as IPAWS and EAS, and implemented because of The WARN Act. The system supports nationwide as well as local emergencies. But commercial...

We asked Garmin's Jim Alpiser at the Aircraft Electronics show in Washington, D.C. if this signals the beginning of the end for big ticket portable GPS. "We recognized that the tablets on the market today are very attractive for a lot of reasons. It allows, number one, to get a giant display...

The electric company, which serves Texas, updated its outage map live. It used the press release headline: "You Asked, We Delivered: New Power Outage Map Goes Live" There is no link to the map in the press release. I can't figure out why... The map, built by iFactor and based on Bing Maps...

Bhutan will have satellite images of development facilities in each distric by year's end thanks to a three year project of its National Environment Commission (NEC). The Thailand minister of science and technology, Dr Khunying Kalaya Sophonpanich, visited in September 2009 to begin a technology...

Floods are considered the number one natural hazard, causing more deaths and damage year after year.  The National Science Foundation (NSF) provided funding to a college in North Dakota for GIS and remote sensing technology and training.  That college, in turn, created a study to assess risks to...