website, ArcGIS.com. Now people with relatively low expertise and no cartography-specific skills can produce GIS-referenced maps that can be shared.
—ESRI also launched a free GIS application for the Apple iPhone and iPad, and soon began racking up tens of thousands of downloads from the online Apple Store. ESRI product manager David Cardella told me ESRI also is developing mobile GIS apps for Android Windows 7 Mobile.
—San Diego-based MindTouch launched a new version of its collaborative application development platform. The four-year-old software startup says its MindTouch 2010 business collaboration platform was specifically designed to enable product and service documentation created for online content to be used to help companies generate revenue while also reducing their costs.
—The U.S. Forest Service approved a 19-mile route through the Cleveland National Forest for the Sunrise Powerlink, allowing construction to begin on the 119-mile high-voltage power line between San Diego and El Centro, CA. When completed in 2012, the $1.9 billion transmission line will connect the San Diego power grid with at least 1,000 megawatts of renewable energy plants under development in the Imperial County desert, according to San Diego Gas & Electric.
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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