Aussie coppers crushed to discover Segways are illegal. Keep walking. Nothing to scoot here [The Register]

 

10:47:19 AM    

 

Autodesk Completes Acquisition of Alias (Alias).

Autodesk Completes Acquisition of Alias

From: Alias
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

10:45:09 AM    

 

Constructware Announces Big Growth in 2005, But Who's #1? (AECnews.com).

Constructware Announces Big Growth in 2005, But Who's Number One?

From: AECnews.com
Type: News Report

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

10:43:46 AM    

 

Five New Demos for Editing a Geodatabase with ArcGIS. View videos that demonstrate the management of annotations, dimension features and geometric networks; disconnected editing and versioning; and how to visually edit a geodatabase with ArcEditor. [ESRI.com: News]

 

10:41:18 AM    

 

IT Finds its Way With GPS. The Rapid Response Project 516 incorporates GPS-enabled handhelds and laptops, together with Geographic Information System (GIS) applications and data. It was used in 2004 during an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease at a manufacturing plant. [ESRI.com: News]

 

10:40:22 AM    

 

Attacks mounting on 'Million Dollar Homepage'.

(InfoWorld) - The wildly successful pixel-powered Web page of a British university student is coming under increasingly intense DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks trying to knock down the profitable brainstorm.

Alex Tew, who created The Million Dollar Homepage to finance his schooling, has been selling pixels for $1 each since September and auctioned the last 1,000 pixels earlier this week on eBay. The technicolor site resembles a well-traveled suitcase covered with stickers, ranging from Che Guevara's image to a stop-smoking ad to a yellow smiley, all leading to paid links.

 

 

10:38:40 AM    

 

Oracle and Sun Team Up to Provide .NET Alternative. segphault writes "Ars Technica has an article about the new partnership between Sun and Oracle, designed to provide an alternative to .NET." From the article: "According to Ellison and McNealy, their mutual goal is the production of a complete Java-centric enterprise datacenter architecture that leverages Solaris 10 and Oracle's Fusion middleware. Designed specifically as an alternative to Microsoft's .NET technology stack, the new platform is competitively priced and based on robust frameworks."

[Slashdot]

 

10:35:06 AM    

 

New Uses For LCD Technology. HaggiZ writes "A design student from the University of New South Wales has developed a postcard with a built-in camera and LCD display. As the article states, you simply snap the photos and send it to your loved ones and 'they tear open the perforations, fold out a little kick stand on the back and sit it on a bench top. Then it's as simple as pressing a button and it will go through a slide show of images.' I also found these credit cards with build in LCD displays. It sounds like the perfect solution for credit card fraud, with the card generating a One Time Password for each transaction." [Slashdot]

 

10:33:24 AM    

 

MIT Startup Tests Top Million Sites for Spyware. torrentami writes "An MIT startup called SiteAdvisor has downloaded over 100,000 programs from the top million Web sites and tested them for adware and spyware using an automated system they've built. They've got a blog entry where they dissect 5 of the worst adware bundles they found. There is some amazingly invasive stuff in there." [Slashdot]

 

10:32:12 AM    

 

Workflow in your office is efficient and value adding for your customers?

Best Online Examples of Workflow Patterns?. g8orade writes "In his bestselling book, The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman lists workflow management software in the top 5 Flatteners. During my work for a shipping startup, I have analyzed our software's many UI weaknesses, particularly related to workflow management, and am currently searching for the best online examples of various UI application patterns / widgets that address managing transaction flows. What are the best examples you know of that are commonly viewable on the web?" [Slashdot]

 

10:31:36 AM    

 

Google Rolls Out Google Earth for Mac (GISUser.com).

Google Rolls Out Google Earth for Macintosh

From: GISUser.com
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

10:30:20 AM    

 

2005 GIS Web Application Awards Winners (GISUser.com).

2005 GIS Web Application Awards Winners

From: GISUser.com
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

10:29:32 AM    

 

Free Nautical Charts from Maptech (Xpress Press).

Free Nautical Charts for Boaters and Fishermen from Maptech

From: Xpress Press
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

10:27:59 AM    

 

VersaCAD 2006 for Mac Ships (AECCafe.com).

Archway Systems Announces New Mac Intel VersaCAD 2006

From: AECCafe.com
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

10:26:36 AM    

 

NSG Statement of Strategic Intent Available Online (NGA).

National System for Geospatial-Intelligence Statement of Strategic Intent Available Online

From: NGA
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

10:25:24 AM    

 

GeoPaint Intro'd (GISUser.com).

Visualizing Large Raster, Vector and Lidar Data with GeoPaint

From: GISUser.com
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

10:24:05 AM    

 

ILMF 2006 Program Announced (GISUser.com).

International LIDAR Mapping Forum Announces Program for 2006 Conference

From: GISUser.com
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

10:23:04 AM    

 

To help keep you up to date on certain resources available to you...

Reading Lists on a live server.

I've set up my test NewsRiver installation with the new reading list code, and subscribed it to the original bloggers and the news-oriented podcast lists.

The usual caveat applies, the test server may not be available tomorrow or the day after, but it is available today, so far.

[Scripting News]

 

10:21:31 AM