The OSGEO is requesting Letters of Intent from groups interested in hosting the annual open source geospatial conference FOSS4G 2011. The selection process has been modified from previous hosting competitions. Although the FOSS4G event has […]
The Government of the Province of Ontario announced in 2007 that it plans to close the province’s coal-fired electricity plants by 2014 (one of which, Nanticoke, is the largest coal-fired plant in North America) and […]
The goal of the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan is to reduce GHG emissions by 36% below 1990 levels by 2020. Since October 1st, 2008 public buildings in the UK over 1,000m2 must display a […]
Water, storm water, and waste water utilities and their engineering design and construction partners are under increasing pressure to do more with less, while maintaining or improving service and reliability. With aging assets and capital […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has decided that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not have the authority to impose Net neutrality regulations on Internet providers. The decision was made in […]
I ran into Matt Ball of Vector1Media last night in Waltham where Autodesk is hosting an event and he pointed me to an interview he has done recently with Rebecca Moore of Google about the […]
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Apple has sold 300,000 iPads on the first day of sales, somewhat better than the 270,000 iPhones sold on its first day in 2007. Apple also said that 1 […]
I blogged previously about an Autodesk Labs project called Project Butterfly that allows you to edit AutoCAD drawings over the Web using a Web browser. This week a new version of Project Butterfly has been […]