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July 12, 2006
Viennese Heuriger at SDH 2006
Viennese hospitality at a Nussdorf Heuriger during the Spatial Data Handling conference in the company of Bengt Rystedt, Esmond and Nellie Monk, Georg and Geertje Gartner, Guenther Retscher and Marcus and Beatrix Jobst!
This is where vital work on the editorial policy on the Journal of Location Based Services was carried out with Georg Gartner...
Jonathan
Posted by raper at 09:06 PM
When thieves want satnav... you know you've really got people's attention
The UK paper the Daily Express ran an article this week (Monday July 10 2006) with the screaming headline
"Why sat-nav is now a must-have for thieves"
With data from the car leasing company Masterlease, it seems that Sheffield is the worst place in the UK for sat-nav theft, which has risen between 500 and 1000% in most areas (probably from a very low base). According to the article 2.2 million vehicles in the UK have sat-nav, 670,000 being sold last year at a cost of £305 million.
Jonathan
Posted by raper at 04:48 PM
July 02, 2006
Monthly URL Digest June 2006
Here are a set of interesting URL's from my news feeds from May and June 2006 (in no particular order!):
Win Mobile .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP1Music fans can copy own tracks
DoCoMo deal opens i-Mode world to Windows Media
.mobi domain opens for business
Second Circuit Decides Fair Use Case Regarding Reduced Copies Of Images
API Keys for Direct Competitors
Garmin's latest patent: Methods and systems to interface navigation operations
Geotagging Manhattan
GEtrackr uses Google Earth to generate “geotags” for images in Flickr
Active Volcanos - Google Maps API example
Tadpole Technology Launches GO! Sync Mobile GIS Framework
Internet scam in which hackers hijack computer files and blackmail owners to get them back
StrataVarious' Boston Hypermap Atlas patent
InvenSense today announced a gyroscope-based solution for handsets
Mologogo is a free service that will track your friend's GPS-enabled cell phones from another phone or on the web
NASA's CloudSat snaps 3-D weather
Net Neutrality: Rules vs. Principles
EBay patent decision: Patent owners do not have an automatic right to an injunction that could cripple the business of an infringer
Harlan Onsrud will be speaking about Public Commons and Marketplace in Technical and Scientific Data and Services
Ed Parson's (self-)critique of the OS
UK based mapping mashups
Evidence that suggests that WAAS and EGNOS make little difference to the quality of GPS fixes
Changes to the OS database per day...
Tagging anything in Google Earth
Setting up GPS on Windows Mobile 5
Openwave speeds up its mobile browser
Installing the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition Device SDK
Ordnance Survey challenged to open up by Berners-Lee
Is Google obliged to list your web site?
3G mobiles 'change social habits'
Jonathan
Posted by raper at 07:51 PM | Comments (0)