GISCafe Voice Archive for the ‘iPhone’ CategoryGIS at Autodesk’s AEC Media SummitThursday, May 28th, 2015Last week media trekked to Autodesk’s new Innovation and Design Building in the heart of Boston for the Autodesk AEC Media Summit. While the previous LEED Gold headquarters in Waltham, Mass. was a testament to the company’s commitment to sustainable design, the Innovation and Design Building speaks to their branching out in their innovative capacities.  AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 & InfraWorks 2016 Uber acquires deCartaWednesday, March 11th, 2015Last week, Uber announced that it acquired deCarta, a small location based services (LBS) company. As Uber has made its name as the “ridesharing giant,” a company spokesman said that they hoped to improve Uber’s ETA times as well as carpooling service with the acquisition. It also will reduce the company’s reliance on Google and Apple. Esri’s new ArcGIS Open Data Site Available for Open Data SharingWednesday, February 11th, 2015Esri announced the launch of a new site aimed to help citizens locate organizations sharing open data around the world and provide direct access to thousands of open government datasets. Citizens can search, download, filter, and visualize this data through their web browser or mobile device. GIS and CAD converge: interview with Autodesk’s Paul McRobertsMonday, December 8th, 2014In an interview with vice president, Infrastructure at Autodesk, Paul McRoberts at Autodesk University 2014, GISCafe Voice discussed the convergence of GIS and CAD technologies at the company.  The InfraWorks 360 Model Builder cloud service allows users to select a city-scale area from a map of the world in order to generate 3D city models in minutes. Reaching the mobile user with MoasisWednesday, October 8th, 2014Tim Garcia, vice president of Business Development and Emerging Markets for Moasis Global said in a recent article for GISCafe: “The latest frontier is how to effectively reach the mobile user by leveraging the data based on a consumer’s geographic position. Utilizing profiles integrated within geo-location, brands, agencies and even small businesses are able to locate consumers within a specific area and target them with the marketing message that is most relevant.” Moasis’s team combines marketing and the technologies disrupting today’s information ecosystem. They’ve developed a platform based on the fusion of location data and multi-screen delivery, with the flexibility to weather the ongoing change in digital media and local marketing. Moasis Global created the Intelligent Location Engine marketing platform, which encompasses their GeoGrid technology. In July 2014, they announced a partnership with Esri to provide marketers with consumer segmentation data that classifies US neighborhoods into market segments based on socioeconomic and demographic factors. By integrating Esri’s Tapestry data into a location-based mobile marketing platform, marketers can optimize the performance of their mobile marketing campaigns and better pinpoint the best potential customers and prospects using Moasis. The partnership facilitates marketers who want to measure the performance and appeal of their mobile marketing and optimize in real time, combine Moasis’ location marketing platform with Esri’s Tapestry data to help target the customers and prospects in a particular area. The platform allows marketers to create behavioral market segments by location and target lifestyle demographics as well as where such customers live, down to their local neighborhoods.
Google acquires Jetpac iPhone appTuesday, September 23rd, 2014Not to be outdone by some of Google’s larger acquisitions, Jetpac, a contextual image company, has been acquired by the search engine giant. What Google wants from Jetpac is their iPhone app that helps users find destinations using shared smartphone photos. It is also a very powerful crowdsourcing tool. From the President’s Cup to Interactive Recreation Map with ArcGIS OnlineMonday, August 11th, 2014In a technical session entitled “ArcGIS Online and Social Media,” two interesting speakers spoke about the use of ArcGIS Online and the use of social media to facilitate operations during an international golf tournament in a community and create an interactive map of a popular recreational region. Brandon Brown, GIS administrator, from City of Dublin, Ohio, spoke at the Esri User Conference 2014 on the topic, “Presidential GIS – ArcGIS Online’s Role in the 2013 President’s Cup.” Autodesk InfraWorks 360 Pro DebutsWednesday, August 7th, 2013Paul McRoberts, vice president of Autodesk’s Infrastructure Business, talked this week about the company’s announcement today of Autodesk InfraWorks 360 Pro, that offers the latest 3D modeling, visualization and cloud-based collaboration technologies to address the estimated $30 trillion gap worldwide between desperately needed infrastructure and the funding required to deliver it. Indoor location applications in place by 2016Thursday, June 27th, 2013According to a report by ABI Research entitled, “Indoor Location Smartphone Applications,” the ecosystem necessary to drive mass adoption of indoor location applications will be in place by 2016. iPhone 5 buzz — not just when on vibrateThursday, September 13th, 2012The iPhone 5 is accompanied by a lot of buzz, and some of that is pretty exciting. Customers of past iPhone models will be pleased to know that the iPhone 5 is made of all glass and aluminum, making it the thinnest yet. It measures 7.6mm thick, 18 percent thinner than previous iterations. It features “Ultrafast Wireless,” thanks to GPRS, EDGE, EV-DO, HSPA, HSPA+, DC-HSDPA and LTE. |
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