Directions Magazine’s editor in chief, Joe Francica, speaks to Kanwar Chadha, a pioneer in location-based services as one who founded SiRF Technologies, a GPS chipset manufacturer which merged with CSR plc in February 2009. Mr. Chadha, now the chief marketing officer of CSR, has appeared as a keynoter at Directions Media’s Location Intelligence conference. Francica spoke with him to get his take on how the LBS landscape has changed for social networking as well as anticipated new developments in new electronics going into smaller and smaller form factors. They also discuss the Location and Beyond Executive Summit upcoming October 6th at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, as well as a new endeavor that Directions will be supporting called PointThinkTank, a place for discussing new ideas and concepts in the LBS ecosystem.
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by Joe Francica on 09/08 at 04:37 AM |
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The economy, with two recessions in 10 years, has changed the way IT managers look at technology investments. Pitney Bowes Business Insight president Mike Hickey provides a frank assessment of how his company evaluated the opportunity for cloud computing. He explains why he has reoriented his company’s business model to adapt to this new environment, what software he will offer as a service and how he must find a way to do it quickly. He discusses in detail how clients are eschewing huge upfront software costs for the SaaS model that allows clients to move into more current technology solutions at lower cost. Editor in chief Joe Francica sat down with Hickey during the Insights Conference, PBBI’s user event, in Miami on May 12, 2010.
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by Joe Francica on 05/17 at 06:09 AM |
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The decennial census of the United States is a massive undertaking and maintaining the mapping products that support the effort requires managing a large Oracle Spatial database. In this interview, Nick Padfield and Stephanie Spahlinger of the Geography Division of the U.S. Census Bureau describe the process for managing the spatial data that helps them churn out maps for a variety of constituents from census enumerators to Congress.
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by Joe Francica on 04/16 at 09:16 AM |
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In this interview with Gary Gale, director of engineering for Yahoo!‘s Geo Technologies, editor in chief Joe Francica discusses the future of Yahoo! Fire Eagle, the company’s location broker that allows users to update their location as well as how and when to share their location information. In addition, Gale discusses how much support he receives from his upper management and what we can expect from the Geo Technologies’ team in terms of future advancements for Yahoo!‘s mapping platform.
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by Joe Francica on 04/14 at 05:43 PM |
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