Peter Cochrane has posted his thoughts on last weeks CIO forum on his blog, as I blogged last week I think what Peter had to say was really important, and if you work in IT or are a customer of an IT dept ( I guess that is everybody) you really need to read it. …
Every year Ordnance Survey sponsors the AGI Student of the Year of the year award, this years closing date is on Friday (6th October) so if you are a Lecturer of/or a student of a GIS related discipline who has finished studies in the last year, don’t miss your chance and enter for the award.
Earlier this week Nokia and Trimle announced an arrangement where their respective technolgoies would be licesned to each other for use in the development of future LBS platforms, following on from Nokia’s aquistion of Gate 5 last month cleary Nokia are leading the second wave of LBS – maybe this time then.. Of equal interest …
By all accounts Peter Cochrane’s presentation at this weeks CIO Forum has ruffled a few feathers in the IT establishment. Peter I think made an excellent point calling on the IT industry not to ignore the next generation of IT literate staff, but instead, start to adopt their culture of independence and self reliance. The …
As a smug mac user, the one security point I often make to Windows users, is that I am not using a root level account by default, so unlike windows any malware on the mac (if there was any of course) could do only limited damage. While my point is strcitly true, as this Mac …
It is rare indeed that you are treated to the famous Odessa steps scene of the classic Eisenstein film Battleship Potemkin at a GIS conference.. then Terra Future was not trying to be a normal GIS conference! As I have often argued here, the GI industry is too insular in its thinking, and needs to …
Talk to most people in the GI industry about the semantic web, eyes glaze over or people try to move the conversation on to something else. Why is this ? The productive use of Geographic information online is an area where taking a semantic approach is useful, and many would argue vital, if we are …
Following on from last weeks FOSS4G2006 conference in Lausanne, OSGEO the foundation behind the development of open source GIS software is establishing a UK Chapter. This is great news, as the UK GI community is not a great user of such tools (The OS included it must be said – at least at the moment) …
As reported by the BBC, more precisely Virgin are banning the batteries in these laptops, following a few isolated reports of them overheating.. The batteries are not safe, Virgin argues, when attached to a laptop, one should therefore wrap them in some I would assume flammable material and carry them in your other hand luggage …
Mike at the Journal of maps is collecting peoples recommendations for best and worst trade show gifts following his trip to this years AGI. Afraid the plastic TOIDS of the OS don’t rate very highly!
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