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A First Hint about Chrome OS Browser
The Living in a Google World blog has reported stumbling upon what looks to be an early version of Google’s Chrome OS browser.
Month: October 2009
Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives
Web 2.0, Participation, Google Maps, Quality of Asset Data in Utilities and Smart Grid
If you remember, Eric Raymond in the Cathedral and the Bazaar floated the "many eyeballs" theory that all bugs are shallow if you have a large enough community involved in finding solutions. I also remember […]
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European Strategy for the Smart Grid: Standards
I blogged earlier about new NIST standards relating to the smart grid. In North America communication networks for automated meters and meter reading tends to be proprietary, locking utilities into one metering vendor, whereas in […]
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Sub-meter Remote Sensing Satellites Launched
DigitalGlobe has succcessfully launched and deployed WorldView-2 on a Boeing Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. WorldView-2 will collect multispectral imagery at 1.8 meter resolution and panchromatic imagery at .46 meters*. […]
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FCC: Current State of Broadband in the US
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) directed the FCC to submit a National Broadband Plan to Congress by February 17, 2010 that addresses broadband deployment, adoption, affordability, and the use of broadband to advance solutions to […]
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Register for FOSS4G Sydney, Australia
This year’s FOSS4G has an exceptionally diverse roster of what look to be stimulating talks. It is going to be a serious challenge to decide which of several concurrent sessions to attend. Here’s a quick […]