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Archives for September 26, 2011

Open Letter From LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja Gets Full Page Treatment

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LightSquared™’s CEO, Sanjiv Ahuja, today published an open letter to all Americans that ran in major newspapers. In the letter, Mr. Ahuja reaffirms LightSquared’s commitment to making wireless broadband accessible and affordable across America through the company’s wholesale-only nationwide 4G-LTE network integrated with satellite coverage.

Today, with limited competition in the U.S. wireless market, there are still vast areas of our country without access to broadband. Other areas are plagued by dropped calls and weak signals.

America’s wireless infrastructure is at a critical crossroad as weak signals, dead-zones, and over-subscribed networks risk stalling American innovation and failing to meet consumer needs now and in the future. Within the next 24 months, demand for broadband wireless will outstrip the current total spectrum available in the United States

See Details – Open Letter From LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja

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Putting Food Inspections On The Map With Google Maps – #OpenGov

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There’s no questioning that as Government become more transparent and make more data easily available to the public in usable data formats that awesome apps and excellent examples of civic engagement will result – enter the Seattle Food Inspection Map. See http://www.dinegerous.com/

Using this great mashup with data scraped from the King County Department of Health (see source here) the user can easily view restaurtants and the results of Health inspections on a map. POIs are color coded in a range from Safe to Dangerous and the user can also view results on a sliding scale using the tools provided. A fine example of Civi Engagement in Seattle – thanks to Google Maps Mania blog for the tip off.

M-urgency Android App Puts U of Maryland Students In touch with First Responders

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An innovative new mobile app from the University of Maryland helps students stay in touch with campus police in case of an emergency – M Urgency.  Launched on the University of Maryland campus (updated) Sept. 13 will allow students, faculty and staff to share emergency information with dispatchers via video and audio. The application, the first of its kind in the world, is a culmination of more than a decade’s worth of research in wireless communications.

With M-Urgency, anyone with a university ID who downloads the application can transmit audio and video to the Public Safety dispatcher, who will be able to locate the person through the phone’s built-in locator tool, whether that is GPS or cell tower triangulation. See more information in this announcement or  See http://m-urgency.umd.edu/

Mobile Photog Tip – Share your Instagrams with Copygram

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Instagram is an awesome mobile photog enhancement and sharing service for iPhone users, however, the service has always fallen a bit short when it comes to the archival and sharing of your instagram set. Copygr.am is a cool solution that gets the user  a custom url and provides fast, simple access to your entire Instagram collection and also provides the ability to download and share them. See my Copygr.am at http://copygr.am/gletham/

Instagram may sound like a fun, little, consumer app for the iPhone, however, it’s also a very powerful and useful app that enables you to quickly create beautiful photos but more important, you can then easily upload and share with a number of social services (very handy for event exhibitors). Oh, there’s also  a handy developer API available for you creative types – see http://instagram.com/developer/

Finally, registered users will also be provided with the option to download their entire archive of Instagram photos. Simply request the backup and a simple link to a ZIP file will be sent to you via email. You’ll then have one hour to grab the archive from their server – handy!

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