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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 PC, other sources show a concept of a full display notebook as it is implied by the picture below.
The last apple keynotes were a little bit disappointing for some apple fans because of a lack of real innovations. Maybe this time there is coming something “big” again. But as it is always the case we will be sure of on October 14th after Steve Jobs has held his keynote.
As posted the new GeoEye-1 Satellite, which is sponsored by Google, has send the first satellite image of the earth. It shows the area of the Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, USA.
The purpose of the Earth-Imaging-Satellite is to sell pictures for customers around the world. The full resolution will not be used because of legal issues. Google will use these images with a maximal resolution of 50cm/pixel.
The GeoEye-1 proves the trend that Earth-Imaging-Satellites become more and more interesting for private companies not only for national agencies. For the year 2011 or 2012 it is planned to launch a further satellite, which allows resolutions of about 25 centimeters per pixel. The question is only who will use these data - and which (private) information can be retrieved.
A new plug-in for the web browser FireFox allows to localize the user, which could bring a lot of new opportunities (and fears). “Geode“, the name of the plug-in, is currently for testing and should later be integrated in Firefox version 3.1. If you allow websites or web services to read your geographical position this information can be integrated into the service. There are some similarities to “Loki” a technology by Skyhook, which tries to identify the position of a computer using a wireless networks.
This technique can be used not only for intelligent map services but also for localised news services, security enhanced logins, etc. For example, RSS-Feeds can change their content in case of different location (e.g. Office, Home).
The Geolocation Specification by the W3C can be used for designing such services.
Tomorrow I will do my thesis defense. The topic is the “Development of a distributed Service Framework for Location-based Decision Support“. Here you can see the slides to this presentation. They are not the final version but almost. There were also some difficulties to convert them from the PPTX format in the online format of a slidehoster - So maybe some of the slides look a little bit wired.
For more information on the topic look at: http://www.joesonic.com/2_master_en.php. If someone is interested in my whole master-thesis please inform me to get an copy in pdf.
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