The FCC’s Consumer Broadband Test enables US consumers to test the quality of their broadband connections. The FCC says it may use data collected when you run the Consumer Broadband Test, along with a street […]
Water usage statistics from the City of Ottawa show a sudden spike after Canada’s overtime win, as lavatories across town were flushed near simultaneously, peaking at about 6:20 p.m. on game day. There was a […]
Flurry has estimated the sales numbers for the first 74 days of the launch of the original iPhone and the Motorola Droid, which uses the open source Google Android OS. 74 days was the period […]
An estimate developed by Booz Allen Hamilton in 2005 projected that between 2005 through 2030, modernizing and expanding the water, electricity, and transportation systems of the cities of the world will require approximately $41 trillion. […]
According to an IDC report, PC shipments are expected to grow by 12.6% year-over-year and double-digit growth will continue through 2014. Portable PCs are expected to account for 70% of the global market by 2012. Growth […]
A National Broadband Plan was mandated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act a year ago. After an open consultation process, the Executive Summary of the Plan was released today. The full Plan will be […]
I am quite amazed at how rapidly OSGEO continues to grow. The total number of projects is now over 20, eight of which are in incubation. Among the major project additions are PostGIS, GeoServer and […]
NASA has detected the second tropical storm, called 90Q, in the South Atlantic in recorded history about 325 miles east of Puerto Alegre, Brazil. The first tropical cyclone ever seen in recorded history in the […]