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NYTimes: Google Augmented Reality Glasses Coming by Year’s End

The promise, as reported by the New York Times citing employees familiar with the project is a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time. They are expected to go on sale by year end at about the cost...Read more

Podcast: A Search for Geospatial Innovations

This week we go looking for geo innovation in recent product announcements. Do we find any? Yes!

How Geography Helped Bring Down Plancast

The founder and CEO of Plancast  Mark Hendrickson decided to stop working on the effort full time and wrote a detailed post mortem in January. The service was about sharing your plans with others. Here's what he said about how geography mattered. This reads like...Read more

Find Salaries of Nearby Pols and other LBS News

For The Good of Illinois, an open-government group founded by former gubernatorial hopeful Adam Andrzejewski, has a free iPhone and iPad app that, with the touch of a button, will show you the salaries of government employees in your area. Using your...Read more

Business models for LBS shift to freemium and advertising

Berg Insight estimates that the number of active users of location-based services and apps more than doubled in 2011. At the end of the year, about 20 percent of mobile subscribers in Europe were frequent users of location-based services. In North America where adoption...Read more

New Geo APIs - 2/14/12

Read all the way to the end - there's a bonus! nowCOAST LayerInfo API: nowCOAST is a GIS-based online mapping tool that provides access to real-time coastal environmental observations and NOAA forecasts for any region in the coastal United States. nowCOAST's...Read more

Nokia Maps Suite Beta Debuts and other LBS News

Under the name of Nokia Maps Suite we have, in fact, packaged a series of tools that will help you experience adventures everyday: Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive and Nokia Public Transport are just the beginning. You are going to love all the apps included in the...Read more

GIS Algorithm Cup and other GIS Competition News

With the goal of encouraging innovation in a fun way, ACM SIGSPATIAL is hosting an algorithm contest with winners to be announced at the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference in November 2012. Contest participants will submit original computer programs to be evaluated...Read more