Here’s a terrific app that you might want to get the boss to buy for you… a demo of the new QuickOffice for iPhone application captured at CTIA Wireless, Las Vegas, April 2009 – note, they also have great apps for Blackbery and Symbian S60 as well!
Archives for April 2009
Twitter clients for the Google G1 and Android mobile smartphones
I’m currently using the G1 as my main/only mobile device – it’s a perfect time for such a challenge because I’m also traveling and away from the home office so there are always hiccups and glitches that can occur under such circumstances – a perfect time for a test! When on the road, one of the most important things for mobile geeks to do is stay in touch and connected with social media outlets – this actually is not a tough thing to do because Twitter is such a fine app and is relatively simple to stay in touch with thanks to the many ways available to twitter. So how can I twitter ala G1? Read on for a look at 5 Twitter clients for G1
GeoCommons Goes Green
A fun contest fromm GeoCommons to celebrate Earth Day – http://geocommons.com/ About the competition… Just upload a compelling dataset and/or make a map pertaining to sustainability, climate change, civic initiatives or any other theme that promotes awareness and education of environmental issues. Tag your dataset and map with the contest tag “GCgreen” and FortiusOne’s panel o’ judges will choose the best dataset/map on May 11th . Winners will receive some very nice prizes from the team!
UW-Madison: Brain interface used to post to Twitter
This one falls under the category of hmmmmm…. A University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student, Adam Wilson is among a growing group of researchers worldwide who aim to perfect a communication system for users whose bodies do not work, but whose brains function normally. Among those are people who have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), brain-stem stroke or high spinal cord injury. Just 23 characters long, his message, “using EEG to send tweet,” demonstrates a natural, manageable way in which “locked-in” patients can couple brain-computer interface technologies with modern communication tools. They say, “This is one of the first examples where we’ve found something that would be immediately useful to a much larger community of people with neurological deficits.” See http://twitter.com/uwbci or @uwbci
The Imagery Alert Center from DigitalGlobe
Current imagery is a critical component within many apps and now DigitalGlobe wants to notify you when they have collected new imagery for your apps. DigitalGlobe is continuously collecting accurate, high resolution imagery around the globe and now has the ability to keep customers informed when updates are available. From the alert center you can register to recive notices about the following image updates: New Ortho Imagery – Aerial and Satellite, Online Country Coverage , Oil & Gas , ImageScape – 3D Imagery Models
Special Event/Disasters. From the comany… With our new Imagery Alert service (available free), you receive customized, email notification of new coverage for the region and type you choose delivered right to your inbox. Simply go to the new Imagery Alert subscription center to sign up www.digitalglobe.com/alertcenter
Maponics International Neighborhood Boundaries Data
An interesting data update from maponics… Maponics has announced the launch of Maponics International Neighborhood Boundaries This spatial dataset will include neighborhoods for approximately 100 cities in over 15 European countries by the end of 2009. Maponics International Neighborhood Boundaries is available for quarterly delivery in SHP, KML, many additional file formats and can be accessed via the recently released Maponics Spatial API. See more on this new data product here
Event of interest – Rapidly Building Enterprise Mashups for Greater Situational Awareness
I ran into details of this interestng event titled “Rapidly Building Enterprise Mashups for Greater Situational Awareness with SharePoint, Virtual Earth, & Visual Fusion” – scheduled to take place Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:00 PM EST and run 60 mins. Overview — In this webcast learn how to rapidly build mashups of enterprise data and cloud content inside SharePoint with Visual Fusion. Visual Fusion is an enterprise mashup platform for creating interactive, map-based applications utilizing the power of SharePoint. Our software empowers everyone in an organization to create interactive, geospatial mashups from unlimited sources of data. It unites with SharePoint to form a platform for building Enterprise 2.0 apps that drive agility, collaboration, and insight. See details HERE
AT&T locator service with Microsoft Virtual Earth
This week AT&T launched a child locator service with Microsoft Virtual Earth called FamilyMap. The new service enables parents to keep an eye out on their children at any time via AT&T’s location framework and the Microsoft Virtual Earth map. Parents can customize their mapping experience by labeling locations, creating schedules and viewing the whereabouts of their children from multiple angles, including with Bird’s Eye imagery. Check out more on this via: the VE blog
Interesting app, particularly as the Bird’s Eye photography illustrates an area of interest by providing an angled view of a location for additional context – parents will really dig this! FYI, The application was built by WaveMarket. _2.png?resize=400%2C250)
Samsung Propel Pro Smartphone Powered by Windows Mobile 6.1
Samsung Mobile has officially announced the availability of a cool, new slider smartphone – The Propel Pro. Sleek New Handset Features Vertical Sliding QWERTY Keyboard, Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard, WiFi and 3.0 Megapixel Camera with Auto-focus. Built-in GPS technology allows you to access AT&T’s location-based applications, including AT&T Navigator, which provides GPS-enabled turn-by-turn voice and on-screen driving or walking directions, colorful 3-D moving maps and traffic-delay alerts with one-click rerouting. See more HERE
ThinkGeo Rolls out Map Suite Silverlight Edition 3.0 Beta 1
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The ThinkGeo team in Kansas has launched their Map Suite Silverlight Edition 3.0 Beta 1, the newest entry in the Map Suite family of GIS developer controls for the Microsoft .NET Framework. Map Suite Silverlight Edition is a full-featured GIS control with the same power and flexibility of ThinkGeo’s other Map Suite products. Developers can use it to add maps with advanced functionality like spatial queries, interactive shape drawing and editing, point animation, distance calculations, rich tooltips and markers, projections and much more. Some things you can do with it:
– Target multiple browsers and multiple platforms (including PC and Mac)
– Deploy your application anywhere there’s web access
– Deliver cutting-edge GIS to a wide audience, anywhere
– Get all the tools you need in a full-featured GIS development component
– Streamlined, progressive API makes coding faster and more lightweight
– Wow your users with animations, rich graphics and more
See more details HERE or jump to www.thinkgeo.com
