Location Intelligence and Business Geographics

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) director Letitia Long addressed the GEOINT Symposium and announced that her analysts spend too much time looking for data. The NGA and other agencies of the intelligence community (IC) are moving toward a "common IT desktop" being spearheaded by...

Today, DigitalGlobe announced a new cloud called "My DigitalGlobe" to enable data to be more discoverable. The new interface is a thin client that conforms to OGC Web Services (OWS) specifications. The objective is to allow users to find relevant data through advanced map-based seaching and...

Did you miss day #1 of GEOINT's "pre-conference" sessions? Perhaps you were just arriving, missed your flight or out on the golf course. Here's a recap of the day's activities (and even more pithy accounts on Twitter): The sessions focused on several key themes: Open source...

The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has issued this information message for the GEOINT 2012 conference: About 4,000 people from US and foreign intelligence agencies and representatives from the commercial industries that support them will engage in the GEOINT 2012 Symposium...

At first, everyone was excited about Amazon shipping books right to the door. Then they got excited about having everything shipped right to the door - shoes, bath tissue and even fresh groceries. That I argue was phase one of Internet shopping. Now we are coming to phase two. Now, so at least...

Cloudnymous is a "cloud-based VPN service offers "true" anonymity and protection of the user's data through strong encryption protocols, according to the firm -- and may be of particular interest to those trying to circumvent location-based restrictions online." - ZDNet GreenStack, Inc., a...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has employed a geospatial technology company for data mining to identify likely donors to the campaign. The Buxton Company was cited as the company serving the campaign. Buxton was used previously by former...

Location-based ad company JiWire Wednesday unveiled a new ad service designed to help marketers target specific audiences based on the billions of pieces of location data it has collected. The company's Location Graph harnesses that data to create anonymous user profiles based on the types of...

Rob Sopkin, the Vice President of  Store Development – East for Starbucks provided and overview of the company's utilization of geospatial information for site selection. "Every decision about opening a store is about a $1 Million investment for Starbucks," said Sopkin. At the height of...

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) released its strategic plan for 2013-2017. NGA Director Letitia Long states the following in the executive overview: The NGA Strategy establishes the strategic goals and objectives that will guide our efforts to fulfill NGA’s Mission and...