There is a discussion going on across the country about who can legally use a GPS to determine the location of man-made objects. For example, at the moment there is a bill before the New […]
AutoCAD Map 3D 2011 has been released worldwide. Some of the important new capabilities include Point Clouds Import LiDAR data in LAS and ASCII file formats Stylize point data Filter point data Snap to points […]
Edward Roberts was the inventor in 1974 of the Altair 8800, the first commercially successful microcomputer. His firm was called MITS and was based in Albuquerque. The Altair used a 2 MHz Intel 8080 CPU and […]
Ordnance Survey OpenData is indeed open, in the many senses of the word. The web site is up, there’s a lot of free data and the license is nonrestrictive. You are free to: copy, distribute, […]
After a court case starting in 2004 between SCO and Novell, a jury in Utah decided that Novell owns the rights to the Unix operating system. This should help resolve the open court case between […]
Autodesk has announced the release of the Autodesk SketchBook Pro App for iPad. The SketchBook Pro App is a paint and drawing application designed for the iPad and is available on the itunes App Store. […]
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has announced that it will begin testing smart power meters. Testing could begin in October at residential locations in Tokyo. The power utility ultimately plans to upgrade 27 million meters […]
Japan introduced a feed-in tariff in November of last year which requires electric utilities to buy solar power supplied from residential and commercial sites at a premium rate. The Japanese trade ministry has proposed expanding […]