What is special about Geospatial?

Eye-Fi has presented new WiFi-Cards in the size of a SD-card. There are models names Eye-Fi Explore, Home and Share. The Modle Exe-Fi Explore costs about 130 US-Dollar. This card saves the approximate location of the place where the picture was taken - without GPS.

The georeference works with the service of Skyhook and therefore worksonly near WiFi Hotspot, where the location is known. This techniques is already used from Apple (e.g. iPod touch). The problem with this technique is the coverage. It works quite well in city with a lot of georeferenced WiFi Hotspot but on the countyside there currently are some limitations. In the USA Wayprot services can be used for upload. In the price of the cards there is a an one year free usage of this service included.

The European Union (EU) has finnaly decided about financing the statellite navigationsystem Galileo. All in all until the year 2013, when the project should be finnisched, the EU will provide 3.4 billion Euros.

“Mit der Einigung des Rates haben die Mitgliedstaaten heute die letzte Hürde zur Realisierung von Galileo genommen. Jetzt ist die deutsche Raumfahrtindustrie am Zug” Bundesverkehrsminister Wolfgang Tiefensee

Translation: “With this agreement of the concil the member states have taken the last barrier for realization of the Galileo project”.

With this decision the political framework for Galileo are set. In July ESA will start with tendering and will finnish this in the end of this year. This will be a good change for high tech companies of the EU. In the end of this month the second experimental satellit “Giove B” will be shot into the outer space. This satellite will contain technology of the future Galileo statellites. Giove B will start on April 27th form the kazakh spaceport Baikonur. Origionally this satellite should have been sarted in spring 2006. The fist test satellite “Giove A” is in outer space since 2005. The sart was delayed conistently. Last time the delay was because of problems with the russian carrier rocket Sojus.

The actual roadmap for Galileo defines the end of the assembling of satellites until 2013. In the end Galileo will have 30 satellites and be more precise than the US-mavigation system GPS. The european projects now delays for several years behind the original roadmap.

[via derStandard]

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The chinese computer manifacturer Lenovo has introduced a new pocket PC. The gadget has a 4.8 inch touch screen and Linux as operating system.

Further specifications are: The IdeaPad should be one of the first mobile devices running with Intels Atom-Chip. Beside the touch screen an “optical mouse” is integrated for navigation. Connection to the internet is possible via UMTS or GPRS. Furthermore GPS is included which allow to use the device as mobile navigation system.

There was no statement about the commercial rollout of the IdeaPad.

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Blue Ray oder HD DVD ein ewiges hin und her. Nun zeichnen sich (endlich) Entwickungen ab die das Rennen entscheiden können und den Kunden Erleichterung bringen.

In der letzten Woche musste die HD DVD einen Rückschlag hinnehmen, als das Filmstudio Warner Bros ankündigte, zukünftig exklusiv auf die Blu-ray-Disc setzen zu wollen. Damit kommen nun 70 Prozent aller neuen Hollywood-Filme auf der blauen Scheibe heraus.
Laut einem Bericht der Financial Times will nun auch das Filmstudio Paramount seine Unterstützung für die HD DVD einstellen. Im letzten Jahr wurden zusammen mit DreamWorks Animation erste HD DVDs veröffentlicht, unter anderem der Animationsfilm Shrek. Neben Universal gehört Paramount zu den wichtigsten Unterstützern der HD DVD.

Mir ist es eigentlich zienlich egal, wie das ganze ausgeht. Habe aber immer schon Bue Ray mit Vorteilen gesehen, das die Technologie einfach Vorteile hat.

[Quelle: winfuture.de]