Location Intelligence and Business Geographics

That's the way it was announced via press release this mornning; there was no talk of acquisition or how much money was involved. GeoIQ founder Sean Gorman (bio) uses terms like "merge" when talking about the future and notes how small GeoIQs numbers are comparied to Esri's. The goal of the...

Using a compass indoors is a challenge because all the metal in the buildings makes finding "north" almost impossible. But, what if you could take advantage of just those magnetic disturbances, specifically, map them, and then use a compass ot navigate by them? That's the vision of...

Back on May 7th, during Pitney Bowes' (PB) quarterly conference call with financial analysts, CEO Murray Martin revealed a deal with Facebook for geocoding service: We're pleased to note that at the end of the quarter, we signed a multi-year agreement with Facebook to offer global geocoding,...

At the Pitney Bowes Insights Conference (#InsightsCon)  this week in New Orleans, MSNBC commentator and "Futurist-in-Residence" at The New York Times, Mike Rogers, gave his thoughts on what the future of technology might hold for the average person. He said that if you look back eight years...

Below are the articles/websites/videos cited in my keynote at Geomatics Atlantic, June 13, Halifax, Nova Scotia, titled Geospatial Trends Worth Watching (and Some to Ignore): If you don't see a list of links below, you can access them here via Delicio.us.

Three year old Skout is a location-based flirting/dating app that was first aimed at adults. Last year it began offering a version for 13-17 year olds. That's when trouble began. On Tuesday, after three allegations of sexual assault in the last two week (all by adult men posing as teens) the...

As a brand, blank stares usually accompany mentions of "Hexagon." Here's a company with a US$7 Billion market capitalization that few people recognize as one of the largest companies doing business in surveying, mapping, plant design, metrology and security.

Lt. Gen. Mike Maples U.S. Army (Ret), a former director U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and now Chairman of Intergraph Government Solutions provided a compelling presentation on ways to enhance multifaceted intelligence exploitation or Multi-INT at the Hexagon 2012 conference in Las Vegas,...

Here's a photo montage of the day's events taken at Directions Magazine's Location Intelligence Conference, May 22, 2012. And find more photos from the Oracle Spatial User Conference here.

The OnStar Story Jeff Joyner from OnStar General Motors started the day looking at one of the earliest location-based services, OnStar. It all started back in 1995 with a project then called Beacon. It morphed from a $2000 add-on for Cadallic owners in 1996, that supported some nine calls per...