Japan Trends Map from Esri

This from Esri…  A Japan Trends Map is now available from Esri. The map visualizes a heat map of aggregated reports or reports categorized by property damage, hazards, evacuations, power outages, or help/services available. These can be filtered by date to see daily trends. By selecting “Show reports” you can see [...]

Japan Trends Map from Esri

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DiceTV Update: 10 Trends That Will Impact Your Job Next Year

Verizon predicts 10 business technology trends will help companies strengthen their business next year, and observers say Florida's economic success requires a shift away from construction and real estate, to high-tech.

Verizon predicts 10 business technology trends will help companies strengthen their business next year. And they are:

• Ultra-wideband capacity, "super" data centers for the cloud, and smart devices for anywhere, personalized apps will spur long-term innovation.  
• CIOs will install only the resources they need to power their business. They won't make large investments in capital equipment - or additional resources.
• IT will constantly monitor and tweak to safeguard an organization, and comply with increasingly strict government regulations.  
• Smarter, more portable devices - combined with fourth-generation wireless networks, increased demand for mobility, and advanced mobile platforms will make business apps more popular.  
• Video will take advantage of higher-capacity wireless for face-to face and even face-to-machine interaction. 
  
  
• More machines will initiate and respond to business matters on their own. Broken machines will call for service, inventory items will automatically be replenished, and mobile devices will be discoverable no matter where they are.  
• Unified communications and collaboration will allow smaller businesses to adopt new technologies. Larger businesses will figure out how to bring UC&C into their enterprise.
• IPv4, Goodbye. Hello, IPv6.
  
  
• Imagine a virtual world where you only need user name and password. Next year, the infrastructure to support this will begin appear around the world.
• Finally, CIOs will start to rethink the way they deliver value to their businesses.  Sounds squishy But the cloud, enhanced mobility and new ways of working, will inspire more strategic approaches to using technology. That's good news for developers.

Observers say Florida's economic success requires a shift away from construction and real estate, to high-tech. A report from TD Economics says the Sunshine State is well-positioned to make this transition. With help from supportive policies, its aerospace, medicine and IT sectors could breathe new life into the state's deflated economy. All by themselves, these sectors could account for 15 percent of the state's economic growth over the next five years. Two things already happening: Efforts to establish industrial clusters that create networks, lower costs and promote competition, and Florida's unique access to international trade markets.

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Are “experts” successful at predicting trends in the technology industry?

If you are a smart businessperson, you know to do your research. You probably use Reddit, Google Alerts, Trade magazines and reputable blogs to follow trends in the industry and technology environments to know how to make your business more successful. Experts have made numerous predictions that seem critical to understanding the changing environment of your startup.

DiceTV Update: Trends to Help You Plan Your Job Search

The top trends to keep an eye on in 2011- How IT people feel about the economy - Hey, kids, wake up: Employers don't like the way you act in the office.

Trends to keep an eye on. From Forrester Research:

• Business intelligence will combine real-time access with agility and self-service.
• Business rules will move to the mainstream.
• Software as a Service and cloud platforms will become standard.
• System management will enable continued virtualization.
• And collaboration platforms will become people-centric.

From Gartner, the areas to keep an eye on:

• Cloud computing
• Mobile apps and media tablets
• Next-generation analytics
• Social analytics
• Social communication and collaboration

Now a question for you: Are you positioned to take advantage of these?

More than half of the tech professionals surveyed say there are fewer jobs available. Forty three percent are confident of finding a new job. This is from a survey by Technisource, which found 38 percent of IT workers are likely to search for job opportunities in the next 12 months. That's up a point from the second quarter, and the highest since the fourth quarter of 2009. Only 20 percent think the economy is getting stronger; 47 percent say its staying the same. That's not surprising with all the headlines lately. But still, most feel good about their job security, and their ability to find a new job if they want to - or have to.

Researchers at York College of Pennsylvania say students need to improve their attitude. More than a third of the employers they surveyed say less than half of new graduates act like professionals at work. Nearly 25 percent say that professionalism has decreased.

Only 15 percent of respondents said it had increased. Where can you improve? Internet etiquette, taking responsibility, and getting used to constructive criticism - All things employers say are important. 

-- Mark Feffer

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Tech Trends that Go Bump in the Night

Every year around Halloween, ZDNet comes up with a list of the scariest technology trends. Last year's monsters included unreliable clouds, the never-ending workday and virtual workplaces. The 2010 goblins are equally frightening, so bolt the doors and turn up the lights before you read the list.

"The Night of The Smartphone Zombies"

You've seen these poor, lifeless beings everywhere. People - if you can still call them that - with pallid, emotionless faces, staring down at small screens while they walk direction-less down the street, completely unaware of their surroundings. Yet these poor souls actually believe they are more "connected" to the outside world and more people than ever. They must Tweet. They must Status Update. They must Check In. They must Text. They must check for emails. They must. Every. Single. Minute.

The Lawsuits That Wouldn't Die

Apple's suing HTC and Nokia, and Microsoft is suing Apple and Motorola. Motorola is suing Apple, and is being sued by RIM. Oracle is suing Google. Not only is this tying up the legal system and essentially just making attorneys and law firms richer, it's also slowing the progress of the technology industry and hurting consumers.

I Know Where You Are. Because You Told Me!

For what purpose do you need to broadcast your whereabouts to every single one of your Facebook contacts or the entire Internet on your Twitter stream in real time?

Bwahahaha. I Come To Suck Your Personal Data!

Location aware services are scary when people are willing to share this information with others, but even scarier is the amount of data that gets shared and distributed that you don't want others to see.

Attack of the Mutant Botnets and Worms

Botnets used to be the domain of Script Kiddies on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) for going after financial and personal data on large targeted groups of individual end-user PCs, but now they've become the preferred cyber-attack tool of hostile governments and their official and unofficial cyber-warfare agents to attempt to steal data and deny service of large end-user services such as Twitter, Yahoo, Google and Facebook, as well as corporate and government extranets. I fear that we may very well be looking at a future where critical aspects of our national infrastructure running on Windows are brought to a halt by complex worms created by hostile governments or terrorist groups on an on-going basis."

Have you noticed other scary tech trends?


-- Leslie Stevens-Huffman

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