The safest areas are likely to be software design and development, GIS jobs, networking and systems administration, software implementation analysis and database administration.
That's the word from Peter Sondegaard, head of research at IT research and advisory company Gartner predicts cloud services in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and
A Jewish group in Jerusalem is using 21st-century technology to map every tombstone in the ancient cemetery on the Mount of Olives, a sprawling, politically sensitive necropolis of 150,000 graves stretching back three millennia.
The goal is to photograph every grave, map it digitally, record every name, and make the information available online. That is supposed to allow visitors to find their way in the cemetery, long a bewildering jumble of crumbling gravestones and rubble surrounded by Arab neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. Beset for many years by neglect, it is among the oldest cemeteries in continuous use in the world.
- AP
All bus operators in Taiwan will be required to install a geographic information system (GIS) in all their vehicles by the end of 2012 following the passage of an amendment to transport industry regulations, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) announced Thursday.
The goal is to let passengers know when the bus is coming. I like this announcement because normally it'd say GPS and ignore any use of GIS. Sadly, I'll bet the goal was really to cite GPS.
Addressing the first ever WikiConferencein India, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales here Friday said the representation of maps on the free encyclopedia was in accordance with the ideas of its readers and editors and the founders were not the only ones to control the content.
As Wales spoke at Mumbai University's Fort campus, some Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) members staged a protest outside the campus, contending there was an "illegal" depiction of India's map on Wikipedia.
