Two of the biggest movers and shakers in LBS, Qualcomm (QCOM) and Nokia (NOK), announced that all outstanding lawsuits had been settled. Under a 15-year agreement, the two companies have resolved difference covering various Qualcomm patents for use in Nokia devices. In a separate announcement, Qualcomm announced (PDF) their Q3 results and revised guidance slightly downward for the remainder of the year but it did not dampen the deal with Nokia; QCOM stock soared 20% in earth trading today.

In the first of a series of podcasts from Autodesk, three of the company's leading technologists provide a foundation for understanding how government agencies can better utilize geospatial information. Geoff Zeiss, director of technology, David Kingsbury, Sr. Industry Manager for State and Local Government, and Pete Southwood, Geospatial Technical Evangelist conduct a roundtable discussion of Autodesk's Feature Data Object, or FDO, an open source solution that is embedded in many of the company's industry solutions. Autodesk's ability to integrate CAD, GIS, spatial databases, Excel spreadsheets, and imagery is truly unique and crosses into engineering design, which forms the foundation of integrated asset intelligence.

For more information on FDO see:

The Autodesk website or the Open Source Geospatial Foundation website.


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I've been hunting around for the best maps of the Beijing Olympic venues. I've been disappointed so far with what I've found. Seems like Beijing released an official standard map of the event that everyone is copying, but its a very static and not very helpful. However, the BBC is using Microsoft Virtual Earth for their olympic venue map and they've done an absolutely fantastic job. It's icon driven; click on the icon; see a snapshot of the building and get the events that will take place; click on the event and you'll see the Brits that will compete. The BBC site was launched July 16.

The Wall Street Journal reported today that SAP and Oracle will increase fees on software and support fees. SAP will be increasing maintence fees from 15% to 22% of the cost of the initial software license. Oracle will raise software license fees from 15% to 20% in the U.S. while prices in Europe held steady and some regions experienced a decrease in price.

In this podcast, Myles Sutherland, ArcGIS Mobile Product Manager at ESRI, discusses what users can expect with the latest release of ArcGIS Mobile 9.3. Myles talks about the new ready-to-use mobile application as well as productivity enhancements to the ArcGIS Mobile Software Developer Kit. He also highlights a number of the mobile events at the upcoming ESRI International User Conference.
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Oracle and Pentaho have announced the support for bringing business intelligence (BI) applications to the iPhone. I see this as a more important game changer that could potentially unseat RIM as the perferred business communication device that also brings location technology into the mix. While Pentaho, an open source BI application, have already created a way to integate Google Maps with their software, Oracle has been pushing Oracle Maps more than a Google Maps mashup. The image below is from a Pentaho application.