DigitalGlobe Confirms 2012/13 Enhanced View Contract; CIO Confirms Big Data Problem

DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, has been informed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) that it plans to exercise DigitalGlobe's Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the EnhancedView contract for the entirety of option year three, which begins on September 1, 2012 and continues through August 31, 2013.

- press release

Scott Hicar talks about how big data is becoming an "immovable object" and why DigitalGlobe is betting on the cloud in an interview with the magazine that identified the company as a 2012  Honors laureate. 

- Computerworld

Schumer Learns More About Remote Sensing from Apple, Google; Wants Privacy

Senator Schumer is calling on Apple and Google to let communities know when they'll be mapping so people are aware. He is also asking them to blur photos of people automatically, and to give property owners the right to have their property mapped.

Schumer wrote a letter to the CEOs of Google and Apple, Larry Page and Tim Cook, detailing his requests.

The NBC TV got no response from Google or Apple.

- 7 Online

NY1 got a response from Google, promising to further educate the Senator:

Does Apple really need over half a MB of serving capacity for each map query per second?

That's what anonymous person (with Grace Hopper's picture!) suggests at a blog called Hemiposterical. Anonymous person is even cited in the Register discussing how iOS was more valuable to Google than Android. Is that true even for the superfancy vector maps?

via The Register