Spatial Dynamics

“History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes.”
-  Mark Twain
The nascent competition between the iPhone and the Android OS is reminiscent of the (eventually) lopsided battle between Apple and Microsoft in the 1980’s to be the dominant software platform for PCs.
Presently, Apple and Google appear to have entirely different philosophies regarding their smartphones: Apple tends to practice [...]

Earlier this month (with Google’s logo on the side of the rocket), GeoEye’s GeoEye-1 Satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California. While this satellite will provide images to Google competitors such as Yahoo!, Google has a semi-exclusive agreement and will be GeoEye’s only online-search mapping customer.

Neither company has yet to release [...]