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The War For the Web

By Tim O'Reilly
November 16, 2009

On Friday, my latest tweet was automatically posted to my Facebook news feed, as always. But this time, Tom Scoville noticed a difference: the link in the posting was no longer active. It turns out that a lot of other people had noticed this too. Mashable wrote about the problem on Saturday morning: Facebook Unlinks Your Twitter Links. if you’re...

Samrat Yantra--The Largest Sundial in the World

By Sara Peyton
June 10, 2009

If you're dreaming about your summer vacation check out the new travelers' guide from O'Reilly, The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science & Technology Come Alive ($29.99), by John Graham-Cumming. In this excerpt you'll learn about India's Samrat Yantra, the largest sundial in the world and capable of telling the time, day or night, with an accuracy of about two seconds.. A discussion of the celestial coordinate systems is also included.

Tele Atlas's Community and Map Insight

By Brady Forrest
October 30, 2008

Tele Atlas's October set of mapping data will include 55,000 updates that were made by Tomtom GPS customers. Tomtom only finished the acquisition of Tele Atlas in June. This the first time that we are seeing the device manufacturer's data directly enhance Tele Atlas's maps. The Tomtom GPS updates come via their Map Insight program (Radar post). There two...

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