Swedish startupQubulushas launchedan APIthat will allow third-party developers to add indoor positional capabilities to their apps with ‘shelf level accuracy’. This means that it will possible be able to add, for example, navigation to specific products in a store. Qubulus is one of a number of companies working in the rapidly developing field of indoor positioning – GPS for inside buildings, if you like. Its ‘QPS’ (Qubulus Positioning System) allows for accuracy of between three and five meters....

With the world getting a whole lot smaller thanks to the Internet, you’d think that managing a work force across the miles would be a lot easier today. But technology hasn’t moved as quickly in this field to enable true collaboration that incorporates indoor positioning.Qubulus, based in Malmo, Sweden, believes it has the solution to location-based work force support with its new endeavour, Iguana, which is being presented atThe Next Web Conference....

Being queer in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields can be exhausting. There’s a never-ending torrent of peer-reviewed research, exposure articles from journalists, and testimony from current and former employees that demonstrates a clear and consistent biasagainst the LGBTQ+ community in STEM. And that’s just the private sector. Don’t even get me started on academia and the government sector. It’s clear that workplace discrimination, confrontation, and isolation have a direct impact on how long a queer person remains in STEM, how far they advance in their careers, and, most importantly, their mental and physical health....

You may have read about the ‘lightning strike’ and subsequent explosion thattook outAmazon’s Dublin-based data center at the weekend, forcing its EC2 cloud computing service into unplanned downtime. It affected customers for up to 2 days in some cases. Amazon said in its statement: “The transient electric deviation caused by the explosion was large enough that it propagated to a portion of the phase control system that synchronizes the backup generator plant, disabling some of them....

TheDallas Startup Weekendended yesterday, and the intense weekend of startup activity has culminated in at least one ready-to-market web tool. I’m told thatQueued.atwas designed, developed and launched during a 54-hour period this weekend, by a very hardworking team of hackers. So, what does it do exactly? Well, the startup’s tagline is this: “Share smarter across your social networks.” In a nutshell, it allows you to sign-up and connect with Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn and queue content across your social networks....