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Newsletter for Monday, May 7th, 2012


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In a flurry of news that occured late last week and over the weekend, GeoEye offered to acquire DigitalGlobe in an unsolicited offer for $792 Million. DigitalGlobe responded over the weekend by flatly rejecting the offer stating that GeoEye undervalued the company.
Location intelligence solutions are exploding at the enterprise level and becoming more integrated with business intelligence software. The resources provided here look at how many industry sectors (transportation, retail, real estate and others) are using geospatial information to drive business and secure a competitive advantage.
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Fearsquare takes your recent FourSquare check-ins and cross-references these with the UK Police Crime Statistics database. Showing you street level crime for each individual check-in. Or in detail: The FearSquare application takes a list of your ten most recent ... Continue reading
Update: Friday Facebook announced it would acquire Glancee and its 20,000 current users. Per RWW "Glancee is a smartphone app that tells you when people with similar interests are in the same location as you." - Glancee - RWW --- original post 3/6/12 ---- The hot LBS apps ... Continue reading
Teaching high school stduents and elementary students about GPS and having them use it to make maps is not a new idea. What is new in Urbana, IL is that the older students are teaching the younger ones. And, both groups are English as a second language students and the teaching and ... Continue reading
I've been on the The Huffington Post Media Group's case for some time. The group owns and runs both the Patch series of online local news sites and MapQuest. However, until today all illustrative maps I've seen for stories have been created using Google Maps. I even pinged one ... Continue reading
Update: The winners were announced.  The winners, Frankford High School athletic director Jack Creighton and information technology analyst Jennifer Yuan, relied on old-fashioned shoe leather. Each found more than 400 AEDs, and Penn announced Thursday afternoon that each will ... Continue reading
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EPA GIO Jerry Johnson to Become Department of Interior GIO in May
Per the NGAC coverage in the Boundary Solutions Inc. Newsletter: Instead the meeting was run by Vice Chair, Jerry Johnson, recently EPA GIO [Geogrpahic Information Officer], who in May is to... Continue reading
ESL Students Learn and Teach GPS and other Education GIS News
Teaching high school stduents and elementary students about GPS and having them use it to make maps is not a new idea. What is new in Urbana, IL is that the older students are teaching the younger... Continue reading
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"A common misperception is cloud computing is a job eliminator, but in truth it will be a job creator -- a major one," said IDC's John Gantz. "And job growth will occur across continents and throughout organizations of all sizes because emerging markets, small cities and small businesses have the same access to cloud benefits as large enterprises."
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