The Big Board Goes Open Source

The Big Board, a real-time collaborative mapping environment focusing on emergency response by Renaissance Computing Institute, has been released as an open source project. The Big Board from Renaissaince Computing Inst

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News Roundup - August 2009

What follows is notable news and happenings that I want to purge from my bookmarks folder. It will be a combination of things you already know spiced with things you probably won’t care about. I apologize in advance. GIS

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Microsoft Pans IE6

From ComputerWorld: Friends don't let friends use IE6. - Amy Bazdukas, Microsoft Internet Explorer General Manager. She does give businesses some cover, saying because some companies are big stupid heads and built appli

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ArcGIS Explorer Build 900 Released

ESRI has just released the much anticipated ArcGIS Explorer 900 build. This is the build people have been talking about for a while, introducing such features as: New ribbon UI ala MS Office Greatly improved sup

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The Disaster that is the US Patent/Copyright System

I think the first comment thread on Reddit sums it up nicely.

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Ode to the Free Computer Tech

People come in two varieties - those computer savvy individuals who provide free tech support for their friends and family, and the people who rely on a computer savvy individual for free tech support. All other disting

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News Roundup - July 2009

What follows is notable news and happenings that I want to purge from my bookmarks folder. It will be a combination of things you already know spiced with things you probably won’t care about. I apologize in advance. The

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YouTube Prepares to Give IE6 the Boot

If there was ever an event that could get myopic organizations to finally upgrade from IE6, this is it. The first time a higher-up can’t watch a cats on keyboards video, IE6 will have officially left the station. Now i

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Google Announces Chrome OS

In the take-your-Bing-and-shove-it department, Google has announced it’s working on a new operating system, Chrome OS, designed around the Chrome web browser. Looking through the announcement and the slew of related stor

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Firefox 3.5 Released

In the it’s-about-time department, Firefox 3.5 has been released. The world’s #2 browser (#1 if you factor out monopolies) is patiently awaiting your download. Among the great new features are: Updated Gecko 1.9.1 r

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