Its here! The app that all London bus users have been waiting for has finally been developed. This blog on Public Strategist humorously describes the positive effect on a daily commute, that knowing when the buses will arrive, can have. In Rome, the position of pedestrians using mobile phone activity and buses with GPS hasRead… Read more »
My dishwasher has a bit of whatever the white goods equivalent is of bling. It has a display panel on the front conveying mostly irrelevant information fairly inefficiently. I assume it is intended to communicate whizzy modernity; it certainly doesn’t communicate much useful information. It cycles through three screens in, only one of which tellsRead… Read more »
Philip Ewing reports on a nightmare scenario for the Department of Defense. Suppose a worker’s Android phone is infected with malware, and she innocently plugs it into her work computer to charge and sync contacts. You can imagine the government IT workers turning green at the thought of thousands of unknown phones running unknown softwareRead… Read more »
I met a “professional mentor” last week. He is going to help some deserving senior managers. Not surprisingly, no one is buying. I’ve been treated to some astonishing mentors. In every case they were working full time on their own needs, and I became a lot sharper helping out. I remember when I came homeRead… Read more »
Tri Delta Transit (CA) rolled out its next-bus application last week, providing real-time arrival predictions via computer, text message, mobile device, and telephone. In addition, battery-powered kiosks display real-time information at selected stops. “We’ve been looking at this type of real-time information for about 10 years,” said CFO Steve Ponte. A $1.1 million federal grantRead… Read more »
The FBI Child ID App gives parents a quick informational resource so they are prepared for the unfortunate instance where a child goes missing. The FBI states: The free FBI Child ID app provides a convenient place to electronically store photos and vital information about your child so that it’s literally right at hand ifRead… Read more »
For the second video in our Esri video series, we will be talking with Jason Duke, Regional GIS Coordinator U.S Fish and Wildlife Service: Video Notes: Jason Duke defines the primary mission of the Fish and Wildlife Service, describes the early days of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and the US Fish and Wildlife responseRead… Read more »
The Digital Transportation Exchange (DTE) is an online platform which seeks and supports innovation in global transportation initiatives. The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is championing this construct. Here is more info from their site at http://www.dot.gov/open/dte: The Digital Transportation Exchange (DTE) would connect citizens, businesses, state and local governments, industry, entrepreneurs, researchers, and investorsRead… Read more »
I had a go at doing an email newsletter once before – put a signup form here on the blog, got quite a few people to subscribe, and then never got round to sending a single issue. Useless! Part of my trouble then was that I wasn’t that comfortable with the software. Recently though, forRead… Read more »
CTOlabs.com, a site we produce in service to enterprise CTOs seeking ideas, concepts and evaluations, has just undergone a major makeover focused on making content easier to discover. The layout is now presented in a newspaper format with large headlines, lots of images, and automated suggestions of content related to what you are looking at.Read… Read more »