Bing Goes to Dinner

Microsoft Bing & Local announced some enhancements yesterday based on user research - · Interior Views: Provides users with immersive 360-degree...

Checking Accounts, GIS & Location Based Marketing

In case you haven't heard, free checking died.  Checking account fees are about to change all over the place.  The way that banks...

Waze Finds Means

Waze, the social networking traffic and navigation app that adds user updates in real time on traffic and road conditions to the typical turn-by-turn...

Caliper Releases Maptitude 6.0

Caliper is nothing if not great at providing solid, professional GIS features at a value price point.  Back in the day, its original design...

Facebook Messages - Ripple Time

Facebook announced another new service last week, Messages - endowing Facebook users with a brand new facebook.com e-mail address that Facebook...

Samsung Ultra Mobile PCs

We've been featuring the Samsung Ultra Q1 in a series on primary site analysis in GIS on our banking and financial services site.  Here...

Facebook Deals Pat Hand

Facebook announced Deals yesterday, their late-to-the-game piggyback upon Facebook Places.  A pat hand, because the entry by this giant...

QR Codes & Mobile Tagging Apps Emerge In U.S.

It's a link.  It's a bar code.  It's Pop Art.  It's a QR code! And it's another mobile technology that caught fire in Japan...

Mapinfo Users Still Love the Software - Just Hate Pitney Bowes

We have many friends, clients and academic colleagues who moved it on over to MapInfo from Atlas GIS after ESRI acquired Atlas in 1996. ...

Savings and Investment Potential by Political Party Preference

Occasionally, as we dig through the various databases we use in our practice, we discover datasets that have the potential to help answer...

ESRI Announces ArcGIS for SharePoint

On Monday, Esri announced ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint, a set of easy-to-configure Web parts delivered as an out-of-the box solution for displaying...

Mobile Maps Come Indoors

Think of the layout and contents of your local supermarket as if it were a geographic feature, as if it were a large polygon populated with...

APOS Ready for ArcGIS 10

Our old buddy Brad McCallum at APOS tells us that the Location Intelligence Solution and Integration Kit is now ArcGIS 10 ready, and this will...

Mobile Developers Need Android Wake-Up Call

The iPhone, with its closed source and network, is ultimately bound to go the way of the Mac - a niche technology.  With all the apps and...

The GIS Bibliography

One of the greatest ESRI resources - for all GIS users regardless of software - is probably one of the least known.  The ESRI Bibliography...

GeoLocation Marketing & Social Networking Sites

A number of location based social networking sites are springing up, and offer endless possibilities not only for fun and socializing but for...

Bringing Windows XP to the ArcGIS 10 Party

For those who have Windows XP and want to install ArcGIS 10 and extensions, the first thing you are going to need is Service Pack 3. ...