#ESRIUC Plenary Videos Up

They are on the conference website. That’s pretty quick - good job ESRI production crew!

Update 2: Nokia Sells MetaCarta - Three Months After Acquisition

I see that John Frank, MetaCarta founder and CTO, is now affiliated with new venture, Computable Insights, LLC which seems to be in the data mining space.

—- update 7/13/10——

I asked at the MetaCarta booth here at ESRI UC after I got no response on a call to Qbase. (No e-mail for press, and I had to leave a message in a generic phone mail box. I guess they are on east coast hours?)

Bottom line: MetaCarta’s enterprise group was sold to Qbase - that is, the folks who administer/consult to enterprise customers. They’ll have that same role in Qbase, basically acting as value-added resellers of what is now Nokia’s technology. The logic (and this makes sense): Nokia is a consumer company, with no interest/experinece in dealing with the enterprise. So, this divestment essentially took that part of the company “off the table.”

—- original post 7/12/10—-

Nokia will hold onto the “geographic intelligence technology” part, but sell the rest to Qbase.

Qbase delivers leading solutions in data management, analytics and
visualization, high throughput computing technologies, and a full spectrum of information technology services. Our innovative technology makes our clients’ data work smarter and faster to drive better results at lower cost. Our IT services support client mission-critical requirements in government, military, healthcare and commercial markets.

- Mobile Burn
- BusinessWeek

Immersive Media Changes Name, Looks to Get out of Image Capture Business

Back in June Immersive Media changed its name to EmberClear, Inc. and signed a deal with EmberClear Corp. to acquire its energy investment business.

EmberClear is an investment company focused in the clean energy technology industry.

What will become of the camera technology?

EmberClear will also continue to own the Camera Business, although the strategic review process may result in EmberClear disposing of some or all of the assets comprising the Camera Business.

Immersive Media took the original StreetView images for Google before Google took on that task.

Immersive Media is a provider of 360-degree, full-motion, interactive video experiences.

- press release