Category Archives: News

Ah, another year sans ESRI UC. Fortunately there are so many live-blogging-twitteratti there that the only thing I feel I’m missing out on is San Diego’s distinct lack of soul-crushing humidity. I came across Dave Bouwman’s blog post on the … Continue reading →

First up in this month’s news roundup is the Supreme Court’s decision on Bilski. The SC took its traditional narrow ruling approach (i.e. “punt”), invalidating Bilski’s patent but not invalidating software patents in general. Process patents are still allowed, and … Continue reading →

The big winner this month: Android. Android passed the iPhone in sales in the first quarter of 2010, becoming the #2 smart phone with 28% of the market. Blackberry is still #1 with a whopping 36%, with a big thank … Continue reading →

There was so much news coming from or around Google I/O this month I decided to recap some of the salient points. Here’s the Geo related stuff: Google has hired 300 temp workers to work on their map data. Several, … Continue reading →

As was highly anticipated, Google has released a free, high quality video codec at the Google I/O conference. This is what everybody was hoping for after Google acquired On2 and their VP8 codec for $100M+. The new codec is called … Continue reading →