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• New Flex.apache.org Web Page

We made the front page!!

• GIS Inc – Fellow Esri Partners

We are familiar with GIS Inc, a fellow Esri partner. They offer a nice blend of GIS services. We thought it worth showing how well they market their services. The material below is presented/provided by Michael Healander who heads up their new Emerging Technology Group. GIS Inc and Local Government GIS Inc Services GISi – more »

• ArcGIS Online & Google Fusion Tables

We are always interested in how we can integrate technologies with ArcGIS Online. We’ve been looking over a couple of interesting articles: Making Maps with Google Fusion Tables ArcGIS Online & Google Fusion Tables App We’ll follow up on this and walk through our own example of an app using a combination of these technologies.

• (Dr) Mansour Raad of ESRI – One of our Heroes

• Making Money with (location-based) Mobile Apps

So you’re a developer and you want to strike out on your own and get a piece of that lucrative mobile-apps market. Who can blame you? Research firm Gartner predicted last January that mobile application revenue would nearly triple this year to $15.1 billion from $5.2 billion in 2010. A month later, rival analyst firm more »

• Mobile GIS and Location-Based Services Course

We saw the ad below for a course at the Institute of Cartography and GeoInformation. Very interesting. As mobile explodes, the landscape is changing for geo-techology. It remains confusing and dis-jointed with GIS, LBS, traditional navigation. Its very far sighted for the Institute to offer this type of course. Well worth looking into we think. more »

• Video: Google Maps Coordinate – Field Employee Tracking & Scheduling

Dan Chu, Google’s product manager for Coordinate, summary of the new Google service: “The idea behind the service to provide an easier and off-the-shelf way to organize mobile teams. Customers will also be able to enter large datasets as custom locations into the service. A utility company, for example, could use this to enter the more »

• Location-Based Mobile Ads

Facebook says it’s developing a location-based mobile advertising platform for companies that will let them target users in real time. Analysts are upbeat about the product, which has been tested over the past couple of months but has no firm launch date yet. “The holy grail of advertising is finding people when they are at more »

• Mobile Location Apps, Seamless Integration & Microsoft’s Surface

As we mentioned yesterday, we see the release of Microsoft’s Surface as a big deal. Microsoft have now entered the mobile world in earnest; with, we hope, new potential announcements around Bing. The article below appeared in hashtablemedia and caught our attention. The idea of “seamlessly integrated touchscreen software that works on everything from fridges more »

• Microsoft Surface & Mobile Location Technology

Our first thoughts on the ‘mystery’ Microsoft press conference today; finally they have joined the mobile party with the launch of Surface. Ok, its a hardware tablet release. From the presentation it has a tonne of cool new features; built in stand with keyboard as part of the stand, powerful i5 processor, built in HDMI, more »

• Google Maps Travels Off-Road, Into the Sky, and Into the Pocket

Google has revealed a few new features for its Google Maps service. 3D views of various cities will be available, and Android users will be able to access a certain amount of Google Maps data offline. Google also unveiled a new tool for gathering Street View images from off-road locations. The announcement comes as Apple more »

• Mobile & Location Apps = Disruption

We are ready for the disruption .. are you?

• ArcGIS Mobile Apps for DOD

We are in discussion with the DOD on a number of mobile ArcGIS projects. Use of CAC cards on mobile has been a frequent topic of conversation. We will be taking advantage of the recently released baiMobile card reader to enable users mobile access to DOD computers. See below: baiMobile®™ 3000 Bluetooth Smart Card Reader more »

• MapQuest Transformation

The following is a recently posted open position at MapQuest. We work closely with the company and are excited by the transformation underway there: MapQuest Director of Mobile Product and Technology (Denver) Want to work in a startup-like environment that already has a very strong brand, has 40M monthly unique visitors, is one of the more »

• Asian Economic Growth – A History

In late 19th Cent. Europe and particularly England, a growing awareness of the huge and increasing population and the mysticism surrounding China led to fevered imagination. This fire was neatly stoked by popular writers, who suggested that Europe would be invaded by the Chinese. Populist terms are always strange, when viewed after the passage of more »

• Animated Empire Map

• Mobile Adoption in the Enterprise

From Forrester Research: “Mobile is not simply another device for IT to support with a shrunken website or a screen-scraped SAP application. Rather, mobile is the manifestation of a much broader shift to new systems of engagement. These systems of engagement help firms empower their customers, partners, and employees with context-aware apps and smart products. more »

• Facility Management Mobile Apps Review

We’ve written articles on facility management and mobile apps. More than that we in the process of writing an app for a facility management company. We liked the following article, discussing available facility management mobile apps: Facility Management Mobile Applications Ok, we are mentioned in the article; just made us like it that little bit more »

• Mobile GIS Apps – Future of GPS

Deep in the bowels of Edinburgh University, scientists are using a much talked-about – and talked-up – cutting-edge communication technology to answer the eternal question: “Daddy, are we nearly there?” Professor Gordon Povey and Wired magazine pin-up Professor Harald Haas believe that visible light communication – or li-fi – can challenge the dominance of GPS, more »

• Mobile Flex Bitmaps & Emailing from Mobile App

We’ve been working on a few technical challenges lately with our mobile app development. Mobile Flex is our language of choice. Why? One (installed) code base which runs across multiple platforms. We are mobile GIS app developers, so focused on maps and geospatial work. Two technical challenges have reared their heads. The first is improving more »

• Mobile Apps: 2011 Reflections & 2012 Expectations

Smartphone and tablet purchases have been on the rise for several years, but 2011 was a turning point: This was the first year that these mobile devices outsold desktop and laptop PCs. The effect — and perhaps some of the cause of this — is a love affair with mobile apps, leading to more apps more »

• Mobile Apps in 2011

It wasn’t just here in the U.S. and it wasn’t just iPhone users; the app obsession has gone global and is now bigger than ever. We’ve already taken a look back at the big themes of app development in 2011. But here’s a look at some of the most interesting statistics involving the abundance of more »

• IBM Mobile Strategy

There was a very interesting recent interview with Leigh Williamson of IBM on their enterprise mobile strategy in readwriteweb.com. We thought it worth paraphrasing: We look at mobile applications and the mobile environment as the significant next generation of information technology. We have these generational shifts that occur every dozen to 15 years and it more »

• iOS v Android Developer Revenue

Android, as we wrote recently, still trails iOS as a money-maker for app developers, with Flurry saying developers make 24 cents on an Android app compared to $1 for the same software on iOS. Now, app analytics firm Distimo is saying the revenue advantage for iOS is even bigger, with the iPhone App Store generating more »

• Future Developments in GPS Technology

The United States is preparing a $5.5 billion upgrade to GPS that should make it stronger, more accurate, and interoperable with other positioning systems worldwide. Can we have it now? These days, GPS positioning is a fact of life for many people. GPS receivers are built into everything from phones to tablets to cameras, and more »

• Quadron “Slippin”

Ok, you found us out we love GIS but love music too. Try this one by Quadron:

• Dark Captain – Strange Journeys Home

Another terrific song by Dark Captain

• Dark Captain – Submarines

Just a wonderful song

• So You want to Build a Check-In App

So the buzz continues over social media and check-ins. Foursquare have just added event check-ins, LocalResponse is expanding its service to include TV check-ins. But the check-in phenomena is spreading wider than the world of marketing. Companies looking to have workers check-in to remote work-sites, and input onsite data are becoming popular. But the mobile more »

• Mobile: Apple and GeoLocation

Originally posted on www.appleinsider.com Apple this week put a call out to fill more than two dozen positions related to iOS development, suggesting a major expansion of its mobile operating system team, particularly with regard to location services. Seven of the positions advertised this week and discovered by AppleInsider are for the role of an more »

• An Upside-Down World

We certainly live in a world which is upside down. These two cartoon just about say it all.

• Christmas Humour

Totally off subject. But my wife sent me this video. Quite hilarious and an advert. Looks like I will need to quickly change some of my gift choices :-)

• Annotate Video and Link to GIS

Geospatial Multimedia – Linking Aerial Video to GIS