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Wired Opinion: Cyberwar Is the New Yellowcake - Wired

From Wired Blog of February 14th: “Today’s cyber criminals have the ability to interrupt life-sustaining services, cause catastrophic economic damage, or severely degrade the networks our defense and intelligence agencies rely on,” Senate Commerce Committee...Read more

I.B.M.: Big Data, Bigger Patterns - IBM Blog “Bits”

From an IBM blog post on "big data" on February 15th: The explosion of online life and cheap computer hardware have made it possible to store immense amounts of unstructured information, like e-mails or Internet clickstreams, then search the stored information...Read more

Pitney Bowes Software CEO O’Hara Discusses Autodesk Relationship and Software Strategy

Yesterday I conducted a brief phone interview with Pitney Bowes Software CEO John O'Hara and he brought me up to speed on several initiatives at PBS and the positioning of the company. On the PBS/Autodesk strategic announcement and that of other partnerships...Read more

Rhiza renames, relaunches core product: Rhiza Upshot

I learned about Rhiza Labs during the bird flu pandemic of 2009 (APB coverage). The company provided the backend mapping for a crowdsourced effort to gather infection and other data as the disease moved across the world and in the United States. Last week I...Read more

New GfK Study Reveals Socio-demographic Structures in Germany

GfK GeoMarketing annually releases the "GfK Demographics" study, which calculates the regional distribution of household types, income brackets and accommodation types in Germany. According to the 2011 data, Berlin has the largest share of young people among Germany's federal...Read more

What is Pitney Bowes Software’s Geosk?

Pitney Bowes announced its new data as a service offering, Geosk, last fall. Adena Schutzberg interviewed Pitney Bowes Software’s Scott Robinson, director of Global Data Products, to learn more.

Oracle, Teradata Offer Next Gen BI, Location Intelligence

I had to do a double-take when I saw this announcement that Teradata, a company focused on "big data," and Oracle were teaming to create solutions for what the press release stated was the "next generation BI capabilities." It took me by surprise as I believed...Read more

2010-2011 Review of Publicly Traded Location Technology Stocks

Editor in Chief Joe Francica provides an encapsulated review of publicly traded geospatial information and location technology companies. The global economic turmoil has had a dramatic impact on this technology sector, with few companies delivering positive gains for shareholders....Read more