Category Archives: Event

iPhone 4 out now – with Retina display and new Camera system

Steve Jobs has just announced the new iPhone 4 on WWDC 2010 keynote. He highlighted 8 things on Apples new phone: Design: The design was well known from Internet photos and videos such as Gizmodo etc. There are not many … Continue reading

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Austrian Wikitude Drive at Google I/O

The AR (Augmented Reality) specialist Mobilizy was the first Austrian company, who was part of the Google I/O developer conference. They invited US users to test their “Wikitude Drive” for Android. Wikitude Drive is an Android app, which does navigation … Continue reading

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Haiti Earthquare Before/After satellite photo

The New York Times has published an article about the Haiti Quake which inlcudes statellite phones before and after Jan 12 2010.  At this webmap with image slider you can image the destruction in Port-Au-Price. It shows areas around: National … Continue reading

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TomTom Navi now available for the iPhone

At Apples WWDC in San Francisco CTO and Co-founder of TomTom, Peter-Frans Pauwels introduced TomTom turn-by-turn navigation for the iPhone. The application looks very slick and fast and can switch between portrait and landscape mode. The text to speech functions … Continue reading

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Video and Maps: Home 2009 – Documentary showing HD aerial images of the earth

Some time ago I have posted about a site I like, called Earth from above. Today on the first UN-recognized World Oceans Day the author of this site has published a documentary movie about the earth on YouTube. The movie is called … Continue reading

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Google I/O: What would you say if you get a free Android Phone?

Attendees of the this years Google I/O Conference get an HTC Magic smartphone for free. If I had known this before maybe I had planned a trip to San Francisco to be there. Even though the smartphone was the highlight … Continue reading

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3D inauguration map of the 44th US president & impressive areal photo of the huge crowd (update)

Update: Boston Big Picture has published some great images of the inauguration including this areal photograph: Click on the image to see fullscreen This image provided by GeoEye Satellite Image shows Washington D.C.’s National Mall and the United States Capitol, … Continue reading

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GIS Day 2008

GIS Day provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to demonstrate real-world applications that are making a difference in our society. More than 80 countries will participate in holding local events such as corporate open … Continue reading

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Are we heading for something big again ? – Apple Event Oct. 14th

Apple has now officially announced an event on October 14th, where new notebook series will be introduced. It is expected that notebooks will become significantly cheaper. There are some rumors speaking of the introduction of Apple Netbooks or a tablet … Continue reading

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Olympic Summer Games 2008 – Medals statistic via Map

Yesterday there was the start of the Olympic Summer Games 2008 in Beijing, China. There are a lot of information about the games incuding a lot of geodata and 3D model of sport facilities. One Example is a Google Maps … Continue reading

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