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Your Source for Geospatial Technology	Tuesday \| March 11, 2008

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Top Story

Apple iPhone SDK and Yahoo! Fire Eagle Open Doors to LBS Apps

This past week two of the many tech players with a toe in the geospatial waters, Apple and Yahoo!, announced new developer offerings that will add to the twists and turns location based services have taken on the road to maturity. One of the services of the iPhone SDK is Core Location, meaning developers can develop native applications that take advantage of pseudo-location abilities. We took a look at the iPhone SDK and Fire Eagle from a geospatial perspective, plus explore what the real reason is for wanting navigation on your mobile device.

off the beaten path

Compiled by Nora Parker, Senior Managing Editor

Here a thought-provoking "Map of the Political Blogosphere" that "maps" blogs based on whether they are progressive, independent, conservative or mass media, and looks at the relationships between them. It uses linkfluence, a proprietary "crawl technology," to establish those relationships. Used with permission. Click for larger view.

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Oracle's Location Intelligence Podcast Series (#3): Develop Applications with Oracle Java Tools
In this continuing series on Location Intelligence by Oracle, we hear how R.L. Polk and Company develops spatial applications with Oracle MapViewer and Java tools. Oracle provides tools to view business information from your corporate database on maps and perform spatial analysis from your own familiar enterprise application environment. Listen to this podcast and learn how Polk uses Oracle Spatial technology to develop its automotive research applications.

Oracle's Location Intelligence Podcast Series (#2): Putting the Pieces Together
In this podcast, you will learn how consulting firm Johnston-McLamb is helping enterprise customers in the private and public sector to benefit from Oracle's entire spatial and location technology platform, including Oracle Database, Oracle Spatial and Locator, and Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer.

All Points Blog

MapQuest Offers Free API

Press Releases

Keigan Systems releases CLEER-Impact Plus for public safety/emergency response and management

Intergraph Advances Solutions for Utilities and Communications Providers

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging Releases Leica TITAN 2008

Safe Software Adds New Dimensions to Spatial ETL

Roadtour Guides You Back To The Future - With The History GPS

GeoAnalytics CEO To Speak At GITA

New version of ERDAS IMAGINE offers new capabilities & enhanced features

East View Cartographic and East View Information Services Adds to Management Team

Avineon Completes Geospatial Data Enhancement Project for the San Antonio Water System

GEO-8 Conference and Seminar Programme Announced

New Jobs

Business Geographer
United States of America, TX, Dallas/Fort worth

Marketing Analyst
United States of America, VA, McLean

Manager of Project Resources
United States, MS, University of MS

LiDAR / Geodesy Production Manager
United States, AL, Huntsville

Geospatial Analyst
United States, MD, Frederick

Stock Charts

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AUTODESK INC

GEOY - NGM	$32.99	0.78 2.42%
GEOEYE INC

GRMN - NMS	$53.13	2.01 3.65%
GARMIN LTD

MSFT - NMS	$28.07	0.20 0.72%
MICROSOFT CP

NVT - NYQ	$73.25	0.02 0.03%
NAVTEQ CORP

ORCL - NMS	$19.31	0.31 1.63%
ORACLE CORP

PBI - NYQ	$34.73	0.01 0.03%
PITNEY BOWES INC

DSGX - NGM	$3.69	0.02 0.54%
DESCARTES SYS GRP

SIRF - NMS	$5.50	0.13 2.31%
SIRF TECHNOLOGY

TRMB - NMS	$27.02	0.53 1.92%
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